Parenting Across Cultures

Parenting Across Cultures is an international group of researchers representing eight countries who are conducting the largest multi-cultural study to date to understand how parents' discipline strategies and other aspects of parent-child relationships affect children's development.

The researchers are conducting interviews with children, mothers, and fathers in eight countries (China, India, Italy, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, United States, and Thailand). Each interview lasts 1-2 hours and addresses questions related to parents' warmth, control, discipline strategies, attitudes, and beliefs and to children's behavior, attitudes, and beliefs. Initial interviews are being conducted in 2008, with follow-up interviews planned for 2009 and 2010.

Participants in the Parenting Across Cultures Working Group

1. Liane Alampay, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines
2. Dario Bacchini, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
3. Anna Silvia Bombi, Rome University ‘La Sapienza,' Rome, Italy
4. Marc H. Bornstein, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
5. Kirby Deater-Deckard, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
6. Kenneth A. Dodge, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
7. Lei Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
8. Nandita Chaudhury, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
9. Jennifer E. Lansford, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
10. Patrick S. Malone, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
11. Paul Oburu, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya
12. Concetta Pastorelli, Rome University 'La Sapienza,' Rome, Italy
13. Desmond K. Runyan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
14. Emma Sorbring, University West, Sweden
15. Sombat Tapanya, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
16. Arnaldo Zelli, Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie, Rome, Italy

Publications
Lansford, J. E., Chang, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Palmérus, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Bombi , A. S., Zelli, A., Tapanya, S., Chaudhary, N., Deater-Deckard, K., Manke, B., & Quinn, N. (2005). Cultural normativeness as a moderator of the link between physical discipline and children's adjustment: A comparison of China , India , Italy , Kenya , Philippines , and Thailand. Child Development, 76, 1234-1246.