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Patel, Puja; Livas Stein, Gabriela; Kiang, Lisa; Juang, Linda; Cheah, Charissa S. L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Immigrants currently account for close to 14% of the United States' population with one in four children growing up in an immigrant household. Yet, little is known about how immigrant parents and their adolescents dialogue about race and ethnicity within the evolving sociopolitical environment. Traditionally, the adolescents' role in racial-ethnic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Socialization, Racial Attitudes, Ethnic Groups
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Bigler, Rebecca S.; Tomasetto, Carlo; McKenney, Sarah – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Youth in Western countries are exposed to many messages that sexualize women. We selectively review the literature on sexualization with the goal of clarifying and integrating theories, constructs, and models of the pathways and mechanisms via which exposure to such messages may affect youth. In the first section of the article, we define…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Females, Social Theories, Social Change
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Paschall, Katherine W.; Mastergeorge, Ann M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
The concept of bidirectionality represents a process of mutual influence between parent and child, whereby each influences the other as well as the dyadic relationship. Despite the widespread acceptance of bidirectional models of influence, there is still a lack of integration of such models in current research designs. Research on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational History, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
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Keller, Heidi; Borke, Joern; Lamm, Bettina; Lohaus, Arnold; Yovsi, Relindis Dzeaye – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
This paper is aimed at analyzing verbal and nonverbal strategies in terms of body contact, face-to-face contact, and discourse style during the first three months of life in two cultural communities that have been characterized as embodying different cultural models of parenting: German middle-class, and Nso farmer families. It can be demonstrated…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Aebli, Hans – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1978
Outlines a dual model of cognitive development in which patterns of cultural stimulation are reconstructed in the child's cognition. It provides a mathematical language for the representation of structures in sensorimotor actions and verbal explanations as they occur in the context of the everyday life of the child. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences