Parenting Across Cultures From Childhood To Adolescence Development In Nine Countries | Psychology

This vital volume advances understanding of how parenting from childhood to adolescence changes or remains the same in a variety of sociodemographic psychological and cultural contexts providing a truly global understanding of parenting across cultures. Through the Parenting Across Cultures project the editors unveil findings from this hugely important comparative longitudinal study of parents and children in China Colombia Italy Jordan Kenya the Philippines Sweden Thailand and the United States. The volume offers insight into trajectories of parenting exploring parents’ warmth control rules setting and knowledge of children’s activities and whereabouts. Each chapter is authored by a contributor native to the country examined guaranteeing an authentic emic perspective and together the chapters provide a broader sample that is more generalizable to a wider range of the world’s population than is typical in most parenting research. Parenting Across Cultures From Childhood to Adolescence is essential reading for researchers and students of parenting psychology human development family studies sociology and cultural anthropology as well as professionals working with families. |Parenting Across Cultures from Childhood to Adolescence Development in Nine Countries | Psychology