1st Edition

Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Edited By Kenneth H. Rubin, Ock Boon Chung Copyright 2006
240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmental goals, are culturally determined. Within any culture, children are shaped by the physical and social settings within which they live, culturally regulated customs and childrearing practices, and... Read more

Preface. Part I: Culture and Parenting. Bornstein, Cheah, The Place of "Culture and Parenting" in the Ecological Contextual Perspective on Developmental Science. Goodnow, Cultural Perspectives and Parents' Views of Parenting and Development Research Directions. Part II:Cultural Perspectives on Parents' Beliefs about Childhood, Parenting, and Parent-Child Relationships. Harkness, Super, Themes and Variations: Parental Ethnotheories in Western Cultures. Rubin, Hemphill, Chen, Hastings, Sanson, LoCoco, Chung, Park, Zappulla, Yoon, Doh, Parenting Beliefs and Behaviors: Initial Findings from the International Consortium for the Study of Social and Emotional Development (ICSSED). Part III: Cultural Perspectives on Parent-child and Family Relationships. Van IJzendoorn, Bakermans-Kranenburg, Sagi-Schwartz, Attachment Across Diverse Sociocultural Contexts: The Limits of Universality. Trommsdorff, Parent-child Relations Over the Life-span. A Cross-cultural Perspective. Verma, Sharma, Cultural Dynamics of Family Relations Among Indian Adolescents in Varied Contexts. Kim, Hyo and Parenting in Korea.

Biography

Rubin, Kenneth H.; Chung, Ock Boon