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Mothers' Parenting Knowledge and Its Sources in Five Societies: Specificity in and across Argentina, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, and the United States
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Yu, Jing; Putnick, Diane L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In a cross-society comparison, we assessed the state of mothers' knowledge of child-rearing and child development. The study included 1,077 mothers from five countries on four continents: Argentina, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, and the United States (U.S.) A criteria-referenced instrument, the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Knowledge Level, Parenting Styles
Severity and Justness Do Not Moderate the Relation between Corporal Punishment and Negative Child Outcomes: A Multicultural and Longitudinal Study
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Alampay, Liane Peña; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana M. Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
There is strong evidence of a positive association between corporal punishment and negative child outcomes, but previous studies have suggested that the manner in which parents implement corporal punishment moderates the effects of its use. This study investigated whether severity and justness in the use of corporal punishment moderate the…
Descriptors: Punishment, Justice, Incidence, Child Behavior
Developmental Continuity and Stability of Emotional Availability in the Family: Two Ages and Two Genders in Child-Mother Dyads from Two Regions in Three Countries
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Suwalsky, Joan T. D.; Putnick, Diane L.; Gini, Motti; Venuti, Paola; de Falco, Simona; Heslington, Marianne; de Galperin, Celia Zingman – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
This study employs an intra-national and cross-national, prospective, and longitudinal design to examine age, gender, region, and country variation in group mean-level continuity and individual-differences stability of emotional availability in child-mother dyads. Altogether, 220 Argentine, Italian, and US American metropolitan and rural residence…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Sons, Parent Child Relationship
Maternal Personality and Parenting Cognitions in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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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
Mother and Infant Activity and Interaction in Japan and in the United States: II. A Comparative Microanalysis of Naturalistic Exchanges Focused on the Organisation of Infant Attention.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Compares activities related to maternal organization of infant attention toward mother and the environment in Japanese and American mother-child dyads. Results reveal that the two cultures have both similar activity and interaction patterns and culture-specific patterns. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Attention, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Environmental Influences
Mother and Infant Activity and Interaction in France and in the United States: A Comparative Study.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
This study focused on French and U.S. mother-infant dyads interacting in their homes. Infants' visual attention, tactual exploration, vocalization and mothers' mediated and unmediated stimulation and speech to infants were observed. Mothers and infants in the two cultures showed some similarities and some different emphases in their activities,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Infant Behavior
Mother and Infant Activity and Interaction in Japan and in the United States: I. A Comparative Microanalysis of Naturalistic Exchanges.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Compares activities and interactions of Japanese and American mothers and their five-month-old infants in their natural home settings from a macroanalytic viewpoint in terms of mothers' verbal and visual stimulation of infants and infants' visual and tactual exploration and vocalization. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Exploratory Behavior