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Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator.

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Lansford, JE; Godwin, J; Al-Hassan, SM; Bacchini, D; Bornstein, MH; Chang, L; Chen, B-B; Deater-Deckard, K; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Malone, PS ...
Published in: Developmental psychology
February 2018

To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were interviewed when children were, on average, 10 years old and again when children were 12 years old. Multilevel models examined 5 aspects of parenting (expectations regarding family obligations, monitoring, psychological control, behavioral control, warmth/affection) in relation to 5 aspects of youth adjustment (social competence, prosocial behavior, academic achievement, externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior). Interactions between family level and culture-level predictors were tested to examine whether cultural normativeness of parenting behaviors moderated the link between those behaviors and children's adjustment. More evidence was found for within- than between-culture differences in parenting predictors of youth adjustment. In 7 of the 8 instances in which cultural normativeness was found to moderate the link between parenting and youth adjustment, the link between a particular parenting behavior and youth adjustment was magnified in cultural contexts in which the parenting behavior was more normative. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Developmental psychology

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EISSN

1939-0599

ISSN

0012-1649

Publication Date

February 2018

Volume

54

Issue

2

Start / End Page

362 / 377

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Adjustment
  • Psychology, Child
  • Problem Behavior
  • Parenting
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Multilevel Analysis
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
 

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Lansford, J. E., Godwin, J., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., … Zelli, A. (2018). Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator. Developmental Psychology, 54(2), 362–377. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000416
Lansford, Jennifer E., Jennifer Godwin, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Bin-Bin Chen, et al. “Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator.Developmental Psychology 54, no. 2 (February 2018): 362–77. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000416.
Lansford JE, Godwin J, Al-Hassan SM, Bacchini D, Bornstein MH, Chang L, et al. Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator. Developmental psychology. 2018 Feb;54(2):362–77.
Lansford, Jennifer E., et al. “Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator.Developmental Psychology, vol. 54, no. 2, Feb. 2018, pp. 362–77. Epmc, doi:10.1037/dev0000416.
Lansford JE, Godwin J, Al-Hassan SM, Bacchini D, Bornstein MH, Chang L, Chen B-B, Deater-Deckard K, Di Giunta L, Dodge KA, Malone PS, Oburu P, Pastorelli C, Skinner AT, Sorbring E, Steinberg L, Tapanya S, Alampay LP, Uribe Tirado LM, Zelli A. Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator. Developmental psychology. 2018 Feb;54(2):362–377.

Published In

Developmental psychology

DOI

EISSN

1939-0599

ISSN

0012-1649

Publication Date

February 2018

Volume

54

Issue

2

Start / End Page

362 / 377

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Adjustment
  • Psychology, Child
  • Problem Behavior
  • Parenting
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Multilevel Analysis
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Developmental & Child Psychology