Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries.

Jennifer E. Lansford; Laura Gorla; W. Andrew Rothenberg; Marc H. Bornstein; Lei Chang; Jeremy D. W. Clifton; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Daranee Junla; Paul Oburu; Concetta Pastorelli; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Laurence Steinberg; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Liane Peña Alampay; Suha M. Al-Hassan; Dario Bacchini

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Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2025-Jul

Pages: 14

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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920

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Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries

Jennifer E. Lansford¹; Laura Gorla¹; W. Andrew Rothenberg^1,2; Marc H. Bornstein^3,4,5; Lei Chang⁶; Jeremy D. W. Clifton⁷; Kirby Deater-Deckard⁸; Laura Di Giunta⁹; Kenneth A. Dodge¹; Sevtap Gurdal¹⁰; Daranee Junla¹¹; Paul Oburu¹²; Concetta Pastorelli⁹; Ann T. Skinner¹; Emma Sorbring¹⁰; Laurence Steinberg^13,14; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado¹⁵; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong¹¹; Liane Peña Alampay¹⁶; Suha M. Al-Hassan¹⁷; Dario Bacchini¹⁸

Child Development, v96 n4 p1260-1273 2025

Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is "Good" and "Enticing." Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger, socioeconomic status, parental warmth, harsh parenting, psychological control, and autonomy granting from ages 8 to 16 years. At age 22 years, original child participants reported their primal world beliefs. Parental warmth during childhood and adolescence significantly predicted "Good," "Safe," and "Enticing" world beliefs, but other experiences were only weakly related to primals. We did not find that primals are strongly related to intuitive aspects of the materiality of childhood experiences, which suggests future directions for understanding the origins of primals.

Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Mothers, Fathers, Childrens Attitudes, Beliefs, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Neighborhoods, Safety, Adolescent Attitudes, Child Development, Personal Autonomy, Authoritarianism, Prediction, Young Adults

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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH); Fogarty International Center (FIC) (DHHS/NIH)

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Identifiers - Location: Jordan; Philippines; Kenya; Thailand; Colombia; United States; Sweden; Italy

Grant or Contract Numbers: RO1HD054805; RO3TW008141

Author Affiliations: ¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Mailman Center for Child Development, Miami, Florida, USA; ³Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁴UNICEF, New York, New York, USA; ⁵Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK; ⁶University of Macau, Macau, China; ⁷University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ⁸University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; ⁹Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy; ¹⁰University West, Trollhättan, Sweden; ¹¹Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; ¹²Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya; ¹³Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ¹⁴King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; ¹⁵Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellín, Colombia; ¹⁶Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon, Philippines; ¹⁷Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority, Abu Dhabi, UAE; ¹⁸University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy