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Difference or Disorder? Cultural Issues in Understanding Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Norbury, Courtenay Frazier; Sparks, Alison – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Developmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder and specific language impairment, are biologically based disorders that currently rely on behaviorally defined criteria for diagnosis and treatment. Specific behaviors that are included in diagnostic frameworks and the point at which individual differences in behavior constitute abnormality…
Descriptors: North Americans, Values, Autism, Language Impairments
Time Spent in Child Care: How and Why Does It Affect Social Development?
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Huston, Aletha C.; Bobbitt, Kaeley C.; Bentley, Alison – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Children who experience early and extensive child care, especially center-based care, are rated by teachers as having more externalizing behavior problems than are other children. This association is reduced, but not eliminated, when care is of high quality, and it varies by socioeconomic disadvantage and the type of behavior assessed. We examine…
Descriptors: Child Care, Caregiver Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
The Relations of Temperament Reactivity and Effortful Control to Children's Adjustment Problems in China and the United States
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Zhou, Qing; Lengua, Liliana J.; Wang, Yun – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The relations of parents' and teachers' reports of temperament anger-irritability, positive emotionality, and effortful control (attention focusing and inhibitory control) to children's externalizing and internalizing problems were examined in Chinese (N = 382) and U.S. (N = 322) samples of school-age children. Results suggested that in both…
Descriptors: Personality, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
Individual and Contextual Correlates of Marital Change across the Transition to Parenthood.
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Levy-Schiff, Rachel – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Examined multiple prenatal antecedents and postnatal correlates of change in marital adjustment and satisfaction in 102 couples from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Fathers' caregiving, play, and affiliative behaviors were the most powerful, positive predictors for adjustment in both spouses. Additional positive predictors for women were…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Influences
Examining the Strange-Situation Procedure with Japanese Mothers and 12-Month-Old Infants.
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Takahashi, Keiko – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines the strange-situation procedure among Japanese mother-infant pairs and analyzes their behavior by comparing them with the data reported in the book by M.S. Ainsworth and others. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences