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Bornstein, Marc H.; Yu, Jing; Putnick, Diane L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In a cross-society comparison, we assessed the state of mothers' knowledge of child-rearing and child development. The study included 1,077 mothers from five countries on four continents: Argentina, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, and the United States (U.S.) A criteria-referenced instrument, the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Knowledge Level, Parenting Styles
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L.; Heslington, Marianne; Gini, Motti; Suwalsky, Joan T. D.; Venuti, Paola; de Falco, Simona; Giusti, Zeno; de Galperin, Celia Zingman – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study used a cross-national framework to examine country, region, and gender differences in emotional availability (EA), a prominent index of mutual socioemotional adaptation in the parent-child dyad. Altogether 220 Argentine, Italian, and U.S. mothers and their daughters and sons from both rural and metropolitan areas took part in home…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Sons, Parent Child Relationship
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Cote, Linda R.; Bornstein, Marc H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
Immigrant (Japanese and South Americans in the United States) families' play was compared to play in families in their countries of origin (Japan and Argentina, respectively) and in a common country of destination (European Americans in the United States). Two hundred and forty 20-month-old children and their mothers participated. Generally, the…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Foreign Countries, Immigrants