TY - JOUR
T1 - Can Parents Manage Their Children’s Future Happiness?—
T2 - A Retrospective Inquiry
AU - Barokas, Guy
AU - Shavit, Tal
AU - Sherman, Arie
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the research unit of the School of Business Administration in the College of Management Academic Studies Israel for the financial support.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the research unit of the School of Business Administration in the College of Management Academic Studies Israel for the financial support. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research unit of the School of Business Administration in the College of Management Academic Studies, Israel.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - The article addresses a novel concept: Parental Happiness Management (PHM)—which refers to parents’ educational or decisions aimed to improve their children’s well-being in adulthood. We ran a survey among 1,110 adults and asked them to retrospectively assess four types of parental decisions: discipline, autonomy, pro-social preferences, and parental acceptance. The results confirm the association between retrospective assessments of PHM and adults’ subjective well-being as measured by global life evaluation, positive, and negative feelings, and a sense of meaning in life. We report a positive association between discipline and meaning in life, but also between discipline and negative feelings. Education for pro-social preferences was found to be positively associated with all components of subjective well-being. The child’s autonomy was found to be positively associated with global life evaluation. We view parents as managers, who allocate their limited parental resources so as to maximize their children’s well-being in adulthood.
AB - The article addresses a novel concept: Parental Happiness Management (PHM)—which refers to parents’ educational or decisions aimed to improve their children’s well-being in adulthood. We ran a survey among 1,110 adults and asked them to retrospectively assess four types of parental decisions: discipline, autonomy, pro-social preferences, and parental acceptance. The results confirm the association between retrospective assessments of PHM and adults’ subjective well-being as measured by global life evaluation, positive, and negative feelings, and a sense of meaning in life. We report a positive association between discipline and meaning in life, but also between discipline and negative feelings. Education for pro-social preferences was found to be positively associated with all components of subjective well-being. The child’s autonomy was found to be positively associated with global life evaluation. We view parents as managers, who allocate their limited parental resources so as to maximize their children’s well-being in adulthood.
KW - discipline
KW - happiness
KW - meaning
KW - parental education
KW - pro-social preferences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85110386381&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0192513X211022793
DO - 10.1177/0192513X211022793
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110386381
SN - 0192-513X
VL - 43
SP - 1386
EP - 1408
JO - Journal of Family Issues
JF - Journal of Family Issues
IS - 5
ER -