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Direct linkFeng, 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
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
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
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
