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Direct linkSuper, Charles M.; Harkness, Sara; Bonichini, Sabrina; Welles, Barbara; Zylicz, Piotr Olaf; Bermúdez, Moisés Rios; Palacios, Jesús – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study explores the cultural construction of "difficult" temperament in the first 2 years of life, as well as the logistical and thematic continuity across infancy and childhood in what mothers perceive as difficult. It extends earlier work regarding older children in six cultural sites: Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cross Cultural Studies, Mother Attitudes, Cultural Differences
Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The seven papers in this issue address a variety of challenges that parents in several different cultural places encounter as they do their best to ensure their children's safe, happy, and successful development from infancy through middle childhood: infant sleep, developmental agendas, temperament, preschools, academic success, and learning to be…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Barriers, Cultural Differences, Child Development
Crescentini, Cristiano; Fabbro, Franco; Urgesi, Cosimo – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite the large body of knowledge on adults suggesting that 2 basic types of mental spatial transformation--namely, object-based and egocentric perspective transformations--are dissociable and specialized for different situations, there is much less research investigating the developmental aspects of such spatial transformation systems. Here, an…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Spatial Ability, Age Differences
Super, Charles M.; Axia, Giovanna; Harkness, Sara; Welles-Nystrom, Barbara; Zylicz, Piotr Olaf; Parmar, Parminder; Bonichini, Sabrina; Bermúdez, Moisés Rios; Moscardino, Ughetta; Kolar, Violet; Palacios, Jesús; Eliasz, Andrzej; McGurk, Harry – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2008
This study explores parental ethnotheories of children's temperament through mothers' responses to McDevitt and Carey's Behavioral Style Questionnaire (1978) for 299 children aged 3 to 8 years and interviews with their parents, in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. We first established a standardized,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Cross Cultural Studies, Behavior Problems
Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Haynes, O. Maurice; Belsky, J.; Azuma, Hiroshi; Kwak, Keumjoo; Maital, Sharone; Painter, Kathleen M.; Varron, Cheryl; Pascual, Liliana; Toda, Sueko; Venuti, Paola; Vyt, Andre; de Galperin, Celia Zingman – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
A total of 467 mothers of firstborn 20-month-old children from 7 countries (103 Argentine, 61 Belgian, 39 Israeli, 78 Italian, 57 Japanese, 69 Korean, and 60 US American) completed the "Jackson Personality Inventory" (JPI), measures of parenting cognitions (self-perceptions and knowledge), and a social desirability scale. Our first…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Social Desirability, Mothers, Child Rearing
Lent, Robert W.; Tracey, Terence J. G.; Brown, Steven D.; Soresi, Salvatore; Nota, Laura – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2006
In a cross-national replication and extension of prior research with American students, Italian middle and high school students completed measures of interests and competency beliefs relative to a variety of school- and nonschool-related activities. Both interests and competency beliefs tended to show greater adherence to circumplex Realistic,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Foreign Countries, Competence, Models
Molinari, Luisa; Melotti, Giannino; Emiliani, Francesca – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
The aim of this study is that of reaching a better comprehension of the topic of children's rights within educational relationships. In a first stage, we analysed the representational field of children's rights produced through free associations by the two partners who are in conflict in everyday life, namely adults (n=267) and adolescents…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Parent Responsibility, School Responsibility, Student Responsibility
