Parenting and Children’s Social Emotional Development across Pacific Cultures
In collaboration with colleagues at Brigham Young University (Utah, USA) and collaborators in Malaysia, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Turkey, we have launched a cross-cultural project examining parenting and children’s social and emotional development.
The major focus of this study is to examine the links between parenting (both universal and culturally indigenous forms) and preschool children’s social and emotional outcomes across different cultures around the Pacific. Contextual factors (e.g., marital and familial environment; family stress or support, parental psychopathology, childcare arrangements), as well as mediating (e.g., child emotion regulation, effortful control, self-perceptions, psychopathology, and social information processing) and moderating (e.g., parent and child gender, child temperament) factors that might prove influential in the parent-child linkages of interest are also assessed. Within culture comparisons that examine the role of religion, socioeconomic status, and rural-urban context, will also be examined.
Collaborators
| David A. Nelson, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, USA Larry J. Nelson, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, USA Chris L. Porter, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, USA Clyde C. Robinson, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, USA Cortney Evans, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, USA Craig H. Hart, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, USA Richard B. Miller, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, USA Jun Nakazawa, Ph.D. Chiba University, Japan |
Akiko Kawashima, Ph.D. Ochanomizu University, Japan Wen Gao, Ph.D. Liaoning Normal University, China Nan Zhou, Ph.D. Capitol Normal University, China Fatima Haron, M.A. HELP University, Malaysia Tan Jo Pei, D.Phil Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Datin Quek Ai-Hwa, Ph.D. HELP University, Malaysia Jo-Lin Chen, Ph.D. Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan Bilge Selçuk, Ph.D. Koç University, Turkey |