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3-026 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Parenting and Children’s Socioemotional Functioning and Academic Achievement

Sat, March 23, 8:00 to 9:30am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 341

Session Type: Paper Symposium

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Parents’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors play a crucial role in children’s socioemotional, behavioral, and academic adjustment and can be particularly important as children transition to adolescence. Previous research has found both variation and similarities among cultures in how parents deal with children’s misbehaviors. However, more cross-cultural studies, especially from countries other than Western industrialized ones (Henrich et al., 2010), are needed to clarify further how the relations among parents’ beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and children’s and adolescents’ adjustment might vary cross-culturally.
The proposed symposium includes four papers that present new findings on each of the aforementioned issues, relying on longitudinal data collected from children, mothers, and fathers in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Sweden, Philippines, Thailand, and United States) betweeen ages 8 and 15 years. Paper 1 focuses on parents’ socialization of emotion in relation to harsh parenting and children’s emotional and behavioral development. Paper 2 examines several aspects of parenting, including corporal punishment, in relation to academic achievement. Paper 3 focuses on endorsement of corporal punishment as a potential moderator of links between parents’ use of corporal punishment and children’s socioemotional adjustment. Paper 4 examines change over time in parents’ use of corporal punishment in all nine countries, showing a steeper decline in Kenya after a 2010 law outlawing corporal punishment. Discussion with the audience will be able to address issues related to the logistics of conducting collaborative international research to advance understanding of parenting and child development in diverse cultural contexts.

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