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Direct linkJiang, Qi; Li, Qin – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
The association of overweight/obesity, and central obesity with thiocyanate (SCN), perchlorate (CIO), and nitrate (NO) in childhood and adolescence is unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to explore this association in 4447 participants comprising children and adolescents (aged 6-19 years) using data from the United States National Health and…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Obesity, Biochemistry
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
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
Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M.; Bonichini, Sabrina; Bermudez, Moises Rios; Mavridis, Caroline; van Schaik, Saskia D. M.; Tomkunas, Alexandria; Palacios, Jesús – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Recent years have witnessed increasing attention to early childhood education and care as a foundation for children's successful development in school and beyond. The great majority of children in postindustrial societies now attend preschools or daycare, making this setting a major part of their culturally constructed developmental niches.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Preschools, Parents
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
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
van Schaik, Saskia D. M.; Mavridis, Caroline; Harkness, Sara; De Looze, Margaretha; Blom, Marjolijn J. M.; Super, Charles M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
One of the earliest challenges for infants and their parents is developing a diurnal sleep--wake cycle. Although the human biological rhythm is circadian by nature, its development varies across cultures, based in part on "zeitgebers" (German: literally "time-givers") or environmental cues. This study uses the developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Infant Care, Sleep
Kornilov, Sergey A.; Kornilova, Tatiana V.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Unlike intelligence, creativity has rarely been investigated from the standpoint of cross-cultural invariance of the structure of the instruments used to measure it. In the study reported in this article, we investigated the cross-cultural invariance of expert ratings of creative stories written by undergraduate students from the Russian…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Cross Cultural Studies, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
Flanagan, Constance A.; Martinez, M. Loreto; Cumsille, Patricio; Ngomane, Tsakani – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
The authors use examples of youth civic engagement from Chile, South Africa, Central/Eastern Europe, and the United States--and also emphasize diversities among youth from different subgroups within countries--to illustrate common elements of the civic domain of youth development. These include the primacy of collective activity for forming…
Descriptors: Evidence, Social Class, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Way, Niobe – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2008
This chapter provides an overview of nonfamily contexts that shape the development and adjustment of children and youth from immigrant families. It also describes the four chapters in this special issue that focus on peer, network, legal, and institutional contexts that influence the lives of immigrant parents and their children. Directions for…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Citizenship, Status, Children
Gest, Scott D.; Davidson, Alice J.; Rulison, Kelly L.; Moody, James; Welsh, Janet A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2007
The near universality of gender segregation in middle childhood and early adolescence has stimulated extensive research on sex differences in peer relationship processes. Recent reviews of the literature suggest that although some claims of two-cultures theory have clear empirical support, such as strong preference for same-sex peers over…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Peer Groups
Harwood, Robin L.; Yalcinkaya, Alev; Citlak, Banu; Leyendecker, Birgit – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006
The cultural patterning of respect is examined in two first- and second-generation migrant groups: Puerto Rican mothers in Connecticut and Turkish mothers in Bochum, Germany. Cultural and generational influences were found for three aspects of respect: proper interpersonal behavior, relations within the family, and esteem within the community.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrants, Mothers, Puerto Ricans
Cohen, Robert; Hsueh, Yeh; Zhou, Zongkui; Hancock, Miriam H.; Floyd, Randy – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006
Children's peer relations are critical for social adjustment and respect plays an important role in peer relations. Furthermore, children's understanding and expression of respect is related to culture. This chapter discusses the interplay of culture, peer social competence, and respect. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Adjustment, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship
Shwalb, Barbara J.; Shwalb, David W. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006
The developmental origins of respect and disrespect among American children are seen in early childhood and in the transition to the school years. This chapter presents the first published research to focus on the development of both respect and disrespect as distinct concepts. The findings are examined in the context of both sociocultural and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Piagetian Theory, Grade 1, Grade 2
Darling, Nancy; Cumsille, Patricio; Pena-Alampay, Liane – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2005
With age, Chilean, Filipino, and U.S. youth come to believe that fewer issues are legitimately within the control of parents and that they are less obliged to obey parental rules. These beliefs vary across domains and countries, providing insight into parent-adolescent conflict and the development of autonomy. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Cultural Differences, Parenting Styles
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