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Jayadeva, Sazana; Brooks, Rachel; Abrahams, Jessie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
There is a growing body of scholarship on how students see themselves, and also on how they are conceptualised by other social actors. However, what has been less explored is how students believe they are seen by others, and how this impacts them. Drawing on focus groups with students across Europe -- and particularly plasticine models students…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology