DEVELOPMENTAL CORRELATES OF PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE-REJECTION FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD IN NINE COUNTRIES
This chapter provides an overview of the Parenting Across Cultures (PAC) project, a longitudinal study of children, mothers, and fathers in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). The PAC project addresses many questions related to parental acceptance-rejection. The chapter briefly describes the methodology of the project. The chapter next describes findings from the project regarding trajectories of parental acceptance-rejection over time, predictors and developmental outcomes of parental acceptance-rejection, as well as parental acceptance-rejection as a mediator of links among prior risk and protective factors and child adjustment. The chapter then describes the limitations of the project, future directions, and implications for practice and policy.
