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Mesman, Judi; van IJzendoorn, Marinus; Behrens, Kazuko; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Cohen-Paraira, Inbar; de la Harpe, Christian; Ekmekçi, Hatice; Emmen, Rosanneke; Heidar, Jailan; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Mels, Cindy; Mooya, Haatembo; Murtisari, Sylvia; Nóblega, Magaly; Ortiz, Jenny Amanda; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Sichimba, Francis; Soares, Isabel; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Pape, Marloes; van Ginkel, Joost; van der Veer, René; Wang, Lamei; Selcuk, Bilge; Yavuz, Melis; Zreik, Ghadir – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Young Children
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Nauck, Bernhard; Suckow, Jana – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
The article explores the relevance of intergenerational relationships within the overall network of young mothers and grandmothers in seven societies: Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Israel, and Germany. The empirical base is 2,945 named network members in 249 pairs of interviews of grandmothers and their daughters from a cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Daughters, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Oeller, Helmut, Ed.; Sturm, Hertha, Ed. – 1976
This text summarizes the proceedings of a 1975 conference of the Prix Jeunesse Foundation which revolved around the question: "What aids can television offer in order to make it easier for young people to socialize in their family and their environment?" Included are: (1) an introduction and the text of the opening speech; (2) separate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Conference Reports, Family Life
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Argentine, Belgian, French, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, and U.S. mothers of 20-month-olds evaluated their competence, satisfaction, investment, and role balance in parenting; they also rated attributions of successes and failures in parenting tasks to their ability, effort, or mood; difficulty of task; or child behavior. Few cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
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Sagi, Abraham; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
A cross-national comparison of infant behavior in the Strange Situation was designed to determine whether preseparation episodes made any difference in attachment classifications and whether infant behavior before separation from mother was the same in different countries. Infants in different countries made similar primary appraisals of the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Osterweil, Zahava; Nagano, Keiko Nakamura – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1991
Maternal views on the separateness and independence of their children were investigated through interviews with 60 Japanese and 60 Israeli mothers about their kindergarten children. Cultural differences between subjects living in Fukuoka (Japan) and Jerusalem (Israel) are discussed for their implications for the study of child development. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Liebes, Tamar – Teachers College Record, 1992
Discusses the role of television in constructing social reality and teaching children to participate in society, examining Israeli research on the role of television fiction and news in parent-child interactions. The article notes how family cultures affect the way television is incorporated into the socialization process in all households. (SM)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences