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Direct linkKondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Behrens, Kazuko Y.; Umemura, Tomo; Nakano, Shigeru – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The current study investigated the intergenerational transmission of attachment in Sapporo, Japan, using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP). This is the first SSP study in Sapporo in three decades, after a study in the mid-1980s reported controversial results. The SSP distributions found in the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Infants
Porter, Noriko; Loveland, Katherine A. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2019
Parents of children with autism experience elevated stress that may be influenced by specific characteristics of the child and parent, including cultural norms and beliefs about parenting. However, there is little research on families of children with autism from cultural perspectives. The purpose of this integrative review is to identify factors…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Parents
Posada, German; Lu, Ting; Trumbell, Jill; Kaloustian, Garene; Trudel, Marcel; Plata, Sandra J.; Peña, Paola P.; Perez, Jennifer; Tereno, Susana; Dugravier, Romain; Coppola, Gabrielle; Constantini, Alessandro; Cassibba, Rosalinda; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Nóblega, Magaly; Haya, Ines M.; Pedraglio, Claudia; Verissimo, Manuela; Santos, Antonio J.; Monteiro, Ligia; Lay, Keng-Ling – Child Development, 2013
The evolutionary rationale offered by Bowlby implies that secure base relationships are common in child-caregiver dyads and thus, child secure behavior observable across diverse social contexts and cultures. This study offers a test of the universality hypothesis. Trained observers in nine countries used the Attachment Q-set to describe the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Child Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
Behrens, Kazuko Y.; Umemura, Tomo – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This study examined differences in children's responses to their family photographs within a sample of Japanese 6-year-olds ("N"?=?44), exploring associations with their mothers' attachment status. The differences in children's photo reactions were captured by a 5-point continuous scale to rate how engaged children were and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Attachment Behavior, Mothers
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
Izumi-Taylor, Satomi; Lee, Yu-Yuan; Franceschini, Louis – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in the perceptions of childcare among American, Chinese, Japanese and Swedish early childhood teachers. Participants consisted of 78 American teachers, 156 Chinese teachers, 158 Japanese teachers, and 157 Swedish teachers. The results of quantitative analysis revealed that these…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mothers, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
A Comparative Study of Childcare in Japan and the USA: Who Needs to Take Care of Our Young Children?
Izumi-Taylor, Satomi; Lee, Yu-Yuan; Franceschini, Louis, III – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in the perceptions of childcare among early childhood teachers in Japan and the USA. Participants consisted of 278 Japanese early childhood teachers (10 males and 268 females) on the Japanese mainland and 78 American early childhood teachers (5 males and 73 females) in the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Behrens, Kazuko Y.; Hesse, Erik; Main, Mary – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Following a 1986 study reporting a predominance of ambivalent attachment among insecure Sapporo infants, the generalizability of attachment theory and methodologies to Japanese samples has been questioned. In this 2nd study of Sapporo mother-child dyads (N = 43), the authors examined attachment distributions for both (a) child, based on M. Main…
Descriptors: Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Classification, Foreign Countries
Izumi-Taylor, Satomi; Ito, Yoko; Saito, Masako; Kaneda, Toshiko – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine American and Japanese pre-service teachers' understanding of the notion of whether or not children under age three should be cared for by their mothers at home. The participants were 87 female Japanese and 64 female American college students majoring in Early Childhood Education. The participants responded…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mothers, Early Childhood Education, Parent Child Relationship
Peer reviewedDurrett, Mary Ellen; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Investigates the relationship between the infant's attachment to the mother and the mother's perception of support from the father. Mothers who receive positive support from fathers tend to have infants with secure attachment. (AS)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Infants
Peer reviewedMiyake, Kazuo; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1985
Investigates the possible relationships among the variables of infant's temperament, mother's mode of interaction, and the quality of the subsequent mother-infant attachment. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
Peer reviewedvan IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Kroonenberg, Pieter M. – Child Development, 1988
Examines 2,000 Strange Situation classifications obtained in eight different countries. Differences and similarities between distributions in classifications of samples are investigated using correspondence analysis. Substantial intracultural differences are established; data also suggest a pattern of cross-cultural differences. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Infants, Meta Analysis
Ujiie, Tastuo – 1985
The applicability of the Strange Situation procedure and the ABC typology for Japanese infants is discussed by examining data from studies in which the Strange Situation procedure was performed with Japanese infants. Findings of a study conducted in Sapporo, Japan, are discussed and their implications are pointed out. The discussion concludes that…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Kanaya, Yuko; Miyake, Kazuo – 1985
Maternal and infant interactional characteristics in early infancy were investigated in order to examine their causal relationship with later attachment as assessed in the Strange Situation. Although the results of rating for maternal variables at four months of age exhibited significant differences between the set (S1) composed of attachment type…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Coordination, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed.; Chen, Shing-jen, Ed. – 1988
Provided in this annual report, the 10th of a series, are the texts of four papers presented at a preconference workshop on new directions for infancy research. The papers focus on the middle European contribution to infancy research, main themes in European research on infant perception and cognition, an innovative therapeutic approach to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
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