Parental attitudes toward childrearing were studied among mothers of Head Start children, using factor analytic techniques. This analysis yielded three factors: Authoritarian-Control, Democratic Attitudes, and Hostility-Rejection. Since these dimensions are substantially the same as those emerging from previous factorial studies of parental attitudes among other groups of mothers, the findings were interpreted as suggesting that cultural attitudes toward childrearing may be the object of consideration rather than attitudes endorsed by specific groupings of mothers.
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