The influence that Albanian parents extrinsic versus intrinsic goal promotion has on the increase of adolescents' prejudice

• Author: Mimoza Çarka, Joana Taçi
• Position: University 'Eqrem Çabej', Gjirokaster, Albania - Faculty of Social Sciences, University 'Eqrem Çabej', Gjirokaster, Albania
• Pages: 58-64

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 2

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania July 2015

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e inuence that Albanian parents extrinsic versus intrinsic goal promotion

has on the increase of adolescents’ prejudice

Dr. Mimoza Çarka

Faculty of Social Sciences

University “Eqrem Çabej”, Gjirokaster, Albania

Dr. Joana Taçi

Faculty of Social Sciences

University “Eqrem Çabej”

Gjirokaster, Albania

Abstract

e aim of this article and more precisely of the research is to examine the emphasis parents put on

extrinsic or intrinsic goal promotion during childrearing. Further more in the following article is,

as well, examined the co-relation between the above E/I goal promotion with the increased racial

prejudice. the above eect is accounted for by adolescents’ RWA (right-wing authoritarianism)

and SDO (social dominance orientation) levels, which, in turn represent two individual dierence

dimensions identied as independent predictors of prejudice. To fulll the research we have

focused on high school students’ parents and we have asked them to complete a questionnaire. the

study conrmed what we really feared that both maternal and paternal questionnaires put a great

importance on the promotion of extrinsic versus intrinsic goals, generalizing the fact that we are

raising materialistic children.

Keywords: e/i goal promotion, racial prejudice, right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance

orientation, childrearing.

Introduction

Nowadays most of the Albanian adolescents tend to adopt a prejudiced attitude towards

their companions, which, in fact has an important eect on their lives and the lives of

their discriminated companions. erefore, in such colored black behavioral attitudes our

duty is to explore the antecedents of such racial prejudice. e results of certain studies

indicated two individual dierence dimensions as important independents predictors

of prejudice, that are, Right - wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance

Orientation (SDO).

More specically:

e concept of Right - wing Authoritarianism (RWA) was introduced in (1981) by the

Canadian-American psychologist Bob Altemeyer as a renement of the authoritarian

personality. RWA is a personality and ideological variable studied in political, social and

personality psychology. Right-wing Authoritarians are people who have a high degree of

willingness to submit to authorities they perceive as legitimate, who adhere to societal

conventions and norms, and who are hostile and punitive in their attitudes towards people

who don’t adhere to them.

In other words RWA is dened as the co-variation of an adherence to conventional norms

and values, an uncritical subjection to authority and feelings of aggression towards norm

violators (Altemeyer, 1981).