Projects

Parenting across Cultures

This project is the largest multicultural study to date that examines how parents' discipline strategies and other aspects of parent-child relationships affect children's development. An international group of researchers is conducting interviews with children, mothers and fathers in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States). Each interview lasts one to two hours and addresses questions related to parents' warmth, control, discipline strategies, attitudes and beliefs and to childrens' behavior, attitudes and beliefs. Initial interviews were conducted in 2008-2009. Follow-up interviews are being conducted in 2009-2010 and are planned for 2010-2011.

Working Group Participants

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. Jennifer E. Lansford, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
9. Patrick S. Malone, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
10. Paul Oburu, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya
11. Concetta Pastorelli, Rome University 'La Sapienza,' Rome, Italy
12. Desmond K. Runyan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
13. Emma Sorbring, University West, Sweden
14. Sombat Tapanya, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
15. Arnaldo Zelli, Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie, Rome, Italy
16. Suha Al-Hassan, Hashemite University, Amman, Jordan
17. Luz Adriana Araque Marquez, Universidad San Buenaventura, Medellin, Colombia