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Peer reviewedSchneider, Barry H. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Asserts that cross-cultural comparison serves a crucial function as a final test of paradigms emerging from intracultural studies of child and adolescent adjustment and maladjustment. Argues that cross-cultural research's doorkeeper function is best performed when a wide range of cultures is sampled, for which core beliefs are measured directly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedStevenson-Hinde, Joan – Developmental Psychology, 1998
This commentary proposes that cross-cultural studies of parenting, like studies within a culture, should become more focused--with antecedent or concurrent measures selected to provide a clear view toward "child outcome." Furthermore, differences within countries may be as great as differences between countries. Therefore, the relevant cultural…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedBukowski, William M; Sippola, Lorrie K. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Draws on journal articles to discuss how cultural variability can be reconciled with developmental theory and dimensions that matter most for development. Argues that cross-cultural research should be predicated on a model of how culture interacts with forces that guide development and that interpretation of cross-cultural research is severely…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedNisan, Mordecai – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Nisan responds to Turiel, Nucci, and Smetana's (1988) critique by stating that it merely serves to emphasize the difficulty involved in distinguishing between the moral and the conventional without reference to the cultural meaning of the act. (PCB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Moral Development
Peer reviewedTuriel, Elliot; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
This critique of Nisan's (1987) study of morality and convention addresses methodological considerations for cross-cultural research on children's moral and conventional concepts. (PCB)
Descriptors: Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHarkness, Sara – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Reviews the six cross-cultural research articles in this issue. The articles document diverse environments of child development; explore universality and variation in mothers' and children's behavior; and delineate relationships between culture, parental behavior, and developmental outcomes. A strength of the research is its collection of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Peer reviewedSaarni, Carolyn – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Asserts that journal's three studies examining cultural influences on emotional development reflect Western cultural model, using Western scripts for how data were collected and meaningfulness attributed. Addresses: (1) search for universals versus cultural specificity; (2) effect of unit of analysis; (3) whose perspective is used when proclaiming…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
