ABSTRACT
The Spanish dataset includes a rich fund of information on political and other ideologies, as well as unusually detailed information on parental characteristics. This chapter exploits this additional information to look at the determinants of lifestyle preferences. It explores the links between ideal family models and associated values and other ideological influences on which the Spanish survey provides information: nationalism and trade unionism. Political conservatism and religiosity are associated, but mainly in the older generation and mainly among men. Religiosity is not linked to work centrality, either for men or women. There is an association between patriarchal values and religiosity, but it is small, with no sex differences. The impact on patriarchal values is limited to the older generation of respondents who generally had only primary level education. Parental cultural capital has no impact at all on ideal family model, some impact on patriarchal values and some impact on work centrality.
