Comment on Kids with conservative parents are happier
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months agoTo be clear this study is a meta-analysis. It means it is not one study but a combination of data from many studies. Study after study has shown conservative people and children tend to be happier and have fewer issues with mental health. It isn’t shocking since the core of conservatism is stability and that is what children need to be successful. We provide them with the tools in life to control their destiny versus being a victim all the time. Their success is their own making vs some outside even being their destiny.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 months ago
No it’s not…
From my link under the section “The Present Study”
This is an empirical question:
Usually, I’d look for the evidence, but not today. If you can assert by simply typing it out, then I’ll reject it out of hand just as easily.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Sorry error on my part, they cited a meta-analysis.
A recent meta-analysis finds that an insecure attachment in early childhood strongly predicts the onset of major depression in childhood and adolescence.
The results—summarized in meta-analyses—are clear: Authoritative parenting predicts fewer mental health problems and delinquent behavior, both at the time of measurement and in the future. Both harsh and overly permissive parenting predicts higher risk of mental health problems and problematic behaviors, as does neglectful parenting.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Oh, yeah, I read that.
But the meta-analysis didn’t say that conservative people and children to tend to be happier and have fewer issues with mental health. It said that an authoritative parenting style predicts fewer mental health problems and delinquent behavior.
That suggests the questions: Are conservative parents statistically more likely to employ an authoritative parenting style? If yes, then we could conclude that kids of conservatives are less likely to have mental health problems. But that question was neither asked nor answered by anything I’ve read today.
The study is not about happiness. Happiness is defined in the positive, actively having and experiencing a particular feeling or set of them. Thus, a lack of mental health problems, which the study is about, is not happiness.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That is a large part of happiness.
thefederalist.com/…/research-finds-conservatives-…
From that article
ifstudies.org/…/conservatives-happier-at-home-wor…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/…/1948550618768241
They have plenty of links in the articles.
It is very well known conservatives are happier than liberals, they give more to charity and have better sex lives.
redstate.com/…/aoc-is-wrong-conservatives-have-be…