A5000773884- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Infant Health and Development
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Educational Methods and Impacts
- Social Representations and Identity
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Education in Diverse Contexts
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Social Media and Politics
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2020-2024
Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate
2020-2022
Tilburg University
2017-2018
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
2016
University of California, Los Angeles
2015
Osnabrück University
2004-2013
Grand Valley State University
2008
This study conceptualizes a cultural model of parenting. It is argued that models are expressed in the degree familism, which informs socialization goals embodied parenting ethnotheories. Three were differentiated priori: independent, interdependent, and autonomous-related. Samples recruited expected to represent these models: German, Euro-American, Greek middle-class women representing independent model; Cameroonian Nso Gujarati farming interdependent urban Indian, Chinese, Mexican, Costa...
Cultures differ with respect to parenting strategies already during infancy. Distal parenting, i.e., face-to-face context and object stimulation, is prevalent in urban educated middle-class families of Western cultures; proximal body contact rural, low-educated farmer families. Parents from cultures a more interdependent history use both strategies. Besides these cultural preferences, little known about the relations between styles as well behavioural systems constituting them. In this study...
Abstract Objective. This study analyzes culturally formed parenting styles during infancy, as related to the sociocultural orientations of independence and interdependence. Design. Free-play situations between mothers 3-month-old infants were videotaped in 5 cultural communities that differ according their orientations: West Africa (N = 26), Gujarat India 39), Costa Rica 21), Greece 51), Germany 56). The videotapes analyzed using coding systems operationalize component model with a focus on...
This study examined whether parents are less responsive to their young children (0-5) when they use a phone. We systematically observed 53 parent-child dyads in consultation bureau waiting rooms and playgrounds. Twenty-three used phone at least once during the observation. Across dyads, we parent child behavior total of 1,038 ten-second intervals. Of these intervals, 641 contained bid for attention from child. Accounting nested nature data, found that odds responding child's were five times...
In this study, the early social experiences of infants from two agricultural societies, Indian Rajput and Cameroonian Nso are compared to each other German urban middle-class families. Using spot observations, infants' were assessed when they between 2.5 3 months. The parenting styles in three communities distinctly different other. However, Rajputs share a pattern that can be regarded as supporting development communion. Differences agrarian related emotional expressivity health nutritional...
Children's socialization environments reflect cultural models of parenting. In particular, Euro-American and Chinese families have been described as following different scripts. The present study assesses parenting behaviors well ethnotheories with respect to three-month-old babies in middle-class Los Angeles Beijing. parents' towards their children, parental are assumed express the model autonomy; whereas strategies be shaped by relatedness. results reveal that mothers embody verbal...
The present study examined conversations of 164 mothers from seven different cultural contexts when reminiscing with their 3-year-old children. We chose samples based on sociodemographic profiles, which represented three models: (1) autonomy (urban middle-class families Western societies), (2) relatedness (rural farming non-Western and (3) autonomy-relatedness societies). results showed that the autonomous predominantly adopted an elaborative-evaluative style (variable-oriented approach)...
This study analyzes how autonomy and relatedness manifest in mothers' accounts of their ethnotheories regarding child care. Mothers came from two independent samples urban middle-class Germany California, autonomous-relational India Cameroon, one interdependent sample rural Cameroon. Transcriptions picture-based interviews are coded for discourse elements indicative both orientations. use more I statements direct references to themselves. contextualize refer authorities often. Generally,...
A linguistic discourse analysis of the study parental ethnotheories is proposed in this paper. It argued that not only are ideas about parenting informed by cultural environment, but ways formulated language itself can be understood as expressing codes. In order to identify these codes, we analysed interviews with mothers from independent and interdependent contexts looked for specific differences content markers found personal narratives. We studied from: two typically communities...
This study deals with speech acts addressed to Hadza infants in Tanzania, a group that has traditionally lived off hunting and gathering. Three research questions are addressed: How do compare those found previous studies other cultures? Are there differences between child adult speakers? And differ camp livelihood patterns? Speech seen as part of language socialization, which reflects overarching cultural values socialization goals. The results indicate experience many requests for...
In this study, the early social experiences of infants from a rural, traditionally agricultural community are compared with those urban same region. Using spot observations, infants'daily were assessed when they about 3 months age. Based on overarching sociocultural orientations, authors expected rural and caregivers to provide their amount body contact, kissing, stimulation. different educational profiles caregivers, less eyetoeye exclusive attention, object stimulation by expected....
In developmental research, mothers are frequently asked to “play as you usually would.” this study, maternal behavior towards their three-month-olds in three cultural communities (Nso, Cameroon; Gujarati, India; Athens, Greece) was compared between videorecorded “play” situations and naturalistic observations. If there is consistency, episodes can be used a proxy for daily behavior. Body contact, body stimulation, face-to-face situations, object stimulation were coded. While individual...
In this study nine month old infants in rural and urban Gujarat, India were compared how frequently which way they engage triadic interactions.It was assumed that caregivers would a child-centered interaction style, creating interactions following infants' signals.It also expected more gestural communication line with results on young often being involved distal interactions.Rural to hierarchical style the caregiver directs bodily ways of communicating as these communities experience large...
Mobile phones have become almost ubiquitous, including the lives of parents young children. This paper examined question how with children living in Norway perceive their phone usage. Twelve were interviewed individually about situations and for what purposes they used phones, whether had discussed mobile media others felt it. Interviews analyzed thematically. Parents reported using mainly information seeking communication networking role as parents. evaluated positive or helpful to However,...
This study introduces a peri-urban context of poverty to the child development in Africa contrast more typical assessments middle-class and rural contexts. Spot observations were used assess universal caregiving behaviors toward seventy-six 3-month-old infants. Results show that infants experienced distal parenting instantiated by mothers, whereas children proximal practices interactions with others. Infants growing up had mothers other caretakers involved at mostly low levels. They levels...
This study addresses Norwegian infants' sleeping places during the day and night. In first part we asked general public to indicate where they think infants should sleep by placing stickers on a depiction of different places. revealed that were expected predominantly outside in stroller either bedshare, room share or independently from their parents at Interviews with mothers confirmed these patterns emphasized benefits fresh air being out nature. They expressed valuing independence, though...