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A Cultural Comparison of Children's Emotion Knowledge: Data from Two Cultures
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Rotem Schapira; Maria von Salisch; Katharina Voltmer – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Knowing about emotions is vital for children's school adjustment, well-being, and future social relationships. Whereas experiencing emotions is a universal psychological process at the biological level, how emotions are categorized and communicated is shaped by culture. Most studies have investigated cultural differences in emotion (knowledge) in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
Understanding Stability and Change in Depressive Symptom Trajectories across Young Adulthood through the Lens of Career Development: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Shulman, Shmuel; Yonatan-Leus, Refael; Silberberg, Ornella – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Research has documented both stable and nonstable trajectories of depressive symptoms across young adulthood, but has not explored the mechanisms that might explain change in level of depressive affect over time. To explore this question, the current study draws on data from an Israeli longitudinal study of 205 young adults who reported their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Emotion Regulation through Music and Mindfulness Are Associated with Positive Solitude Differently at the Second Half of Life
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Bachman, Noa; Palgi, Yuval; Bodner, Ehud – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Mindfulness and emotion regulation through music listening are skills that share some attributes with the skill of positive solitude (PS; defined as an inner choice to dedicate time to a meaningful, enjoyable activity or experience managed by oneself, with or without the presence of others). Nevertheless, little is known about their relationship…
Descriptors: Self Control, Metacognition, Music, Listening Skills
Political Socialization of Young Children in Intractable Conflicts: Conception and Evidence
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Bar-Tal, Daniel; Diamond, Aurel Harrison; Nasie, Meytal – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This article examines the political socialization of young children who live under conditions of intractable conflict. We present four premises: First, we argue that, within the context of intractable conflict, political socialization begins earlier and faster than previously suspected, and is evident among young children. Second, we propose that…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Young Children, Conflict, Memory
Is the Ideal Mother a Sensitive Mother? Beliefs about Early Childhood Parenting in Mothers across the Globe
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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
Future Orientation in Times of Threat and Challenge: How Resilient Adolescents Construct Their Future
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Seginer, Rachel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Drawing on the importance of future orientation for adolescent development this analysis presents a model describing how future orientation is affected by high challenge (or resilience) in the face of political violence. The analysis consists of three parts. The first two present future orientation conceptualization and the psychological processes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Futures (of Society), Models
Efficacy of a School-Based Primary Prevention Program for Coping with Exposure to Political Violence
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Slone, Michelle; Shoshani, Anat – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
A paradigm conceptualizing resilience as factors moderating between political violence exposure and psychological distress administered in a 7-year research project yielded a profile of factors promoting Israeli children's coping in conflict conditions. Three factors--social support mobilization, self-efficacy, and meaning attribution--were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Self Efficacy, Prevention