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Discrimination and Its Relation to Psychosocial Well-Being among Diverse Youth in Sweden
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Gyberg, Fanny; Svensson, Ylva; Wängqvist, Maria; Syed, Moin – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Experiences of discrimination and links to well-being have been examined extensively, but several gaps remain. The current study addresses four of those gaps by (1) examining both aggregated and source-specific forms of discrimination, (2) comparing the experiences of minority and majority group members, (3) expanding the range of outcomes to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Discrimination, Psychological Patterns, Well Being
Experiences of Cultural Clashes at Home and Ethnic Victimization in School: "I Live between Two Cultures, and Neither of Them Understands Me"
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Bayram Özdemir, S.; Özdemir, M.; Kharel, N. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
The present study aims to examine the extent to which adolescents of immigrant background experience acculturative stress (i.e., cultural clashes with parents and ethnic victimization in school) in multiple contexts, and the reasons why such stress takes a toll on their psychological functioning and views of themselves. The analytic sample…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Immigrants, Acculturation, Cultural Differences
All Together Now: Cooperative Classroom Climate and the Development of Youth Attitudes toward Immigrants
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Miklikowska, Marta; Eckstein, Katharina; Matera, Joanna – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Although classrooms have been described as an important socialization agent for the development of intergroup attitudes, the role of classroom climate has rarely been investigated. This 5-wave study of Swedish adolescents (N = 892, 51.1% girls, nested in 35 classrooms) examined the role of cooperative classroom climate for the development of youth…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Adolescents, Cooperation, Student Attitudes
Opportunities and Peer Support for Aggression and Delinquency during Adolescence in Nine Countries
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
Developmental Continuity and Change in the Cultural Construction of the "Difficult Child": A Study in Six Western Cultures
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Super, Charles M.; Harkness, Sara; Bonichini, Sabrina; Welles, Barbara; Zylicz, Piotr Olaf; Bermúdez, Moisés Rios; Palacios, Jesús – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study explores the cultural construction of "difficult" temperament in the first 2 years of life, as well as the logistical and thematic continuity across infancy and childhood in what mothers perceive as difficult. It extends earlier work regarding older children in six cultural sites: Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cross Cultural Studies, Mother Attitudes, Cultural Differences
Cross-Cultural Research on Parents: Applications to the Care and Education of Children Introduction to the Issue
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Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The seven papers in this issue address a variety of challenges that parents in several different cultural places encounter as they do their best to ensure their children's safe, happy, and successful development from infancy through middle childhood: infant sleep, developmental agendas, temperament, preschools, academic success, and learning to be…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Barriers, Cultural Differences, Child Development
Parents' Concepts of the Successful School Child in Seven Western Cultures
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Feng, Xin; Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M.; Welles, Barbara; Bermudez, Moises Rios; Bonichini, Sabrina; Moscardino, Ughetta; Zylicz, Piotr O. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Although children's school success is a parental goal in most cultures, there is wide cultural variation in the qualities that parents most wish their children to develop for that purpose. A questionnaire contained forty-one child qualities was administered to 757 parents in seven cultural communities in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland,…
Descriptors: Success, Academic Achievement, Parent Attitudes, Cultural Differences
Between Empowerment and Powerlessness: Separated Minors in Sweden
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Gustafsson, Kristina; Fioretos, Ingrid; Norstrom, Eva – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012
This article analyzes the migration experiences of thirteen separated minors who arrived in Sweden between 1943 and 2008. Using the framework of "dislocation" and the "liberated self," this chapter shows that the experiences of separated minors are shaped in the intersection between contexts and conditions of transnational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Children, Empowerment
Personal and Ethnic Identity in Swedish Adolescents and Emerging Adults
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Ferrer-Wreder, Laura; Trost, Kari; Lorente, Carolyn Cass; Mansoory, Shahram – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2012
The chapter describes empirical evidence about identity development in Swedish adolescents and emerging adults and highlights cultural and contextual influences that may be specific to coming of age in Sweden. Broad trends in identity options are evident in the lives of many youth living in Sweden. Although research on identity and diversity is in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Adolescents, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Child Care in India: A Comparative Developmental View of Infant Social Environments.
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Sharma, Dinesh; LeVine, Robert A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1998
Examines the effect of day care environments on the social and emotional development of young children in India, particularly considering the cultural context. Considers evidence from a study of families using day care in India, and compares maternal behavioral profiles in mother-infant interaction between India and the United States, Kenya,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Day Care, Emotional Development
Predicting Mother's Use of Physical Punishment during Mother-Child Conflicts in Sweden and Canada.
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Durrant, Joan E.; Broberg, Anders G.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Used maternal beliefs, emotions, and experiences of Canadian and Swedish mothers to predict hypothetical physical punishment of preschoolers. Found that Canadians were more likely than Swedes to suggest physical punishment and demonstrate stronger support for spanking. Support for physical punishment and rating target misbehaviors as stable…
Descriptors: Anger, Behavior Problems, Beliefs, Child Rearing