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Parents' Concepts of the Successful School Child in Seven Western Cultures
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Feng, Xin; Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M.; Welles, Barbara; Bermudez, Moises Rios; Bonichini, Sabrina; Moscardino, Ughetta; Zylicz, Piotr O. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Although children's school success is a parental goal in most cultures, there is wide cultural variation in the qualities that parents most wish their children to develop for that purpose. A questionnaire contained forty-one child qualities was administered to 757 parents in seven cultural communities in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,…
Descriptors: Success, Academic Achievement, Parent Attitudes, Cultural Differences
Developmental Continuity and Change in the Cultural Construction of the "Difficult Child": A Study in Six Western Cultures
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Super, 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