Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An Investigation of Communicative Differences and Similarities as Perceived by Parents in Typically Developing Children

Autor/inn/en	Gabbatore, Ilaria; Dindar, Katja; Pirinen, Veera; Vähänikkilä, Hannu; Mämmelä, Laura; Kotila, Aija; Bosco, Francesca M.; Leinonen, Eeva; Loukusa, Soile
Titel	Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An Investigation of Communicative Differences and Similarities as Perceived by Parents in Typically Developing Children
Quelle	In: First Language, 43 (2023) 3, S.313-335 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gabbatore, Ilaria)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/01427237221149310
Schlagwörter	Cultural Differences; Cross Cultural Studies; Foreign Countries; Communication Skills; Child Development; Check Lists; Parent Attitudes; Scores; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Interpersonal Relationship; Interpersonal Communication; Individual Characteristics; Italian; Finno Ugric Languages; Finland; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kultureller Unterschied; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Ausland; Kommunikationsstil; Kindesentwicklung; Checkliste; Elternverhalten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Italienisch; Finnland; Italien
Abstract	Effective communication is a fundamental aspect of children's daily living, enabling interaction with adults and peers. A rich literature suggests that communicative abilities develop with age, while little is known about cross-cultural differences and similarities. This study presents a comparison of the communicative performance of Finnish (n = 147) and Italian (n = 147) typically developing children, aged 4-8 years old, as assessed by the widely used Children's Communication Checklist--2 (CCC-2). The results reveal an effect of nationality in 9 of the 10 subscales. Finnish parents scored their children's communicative skill higher than Italian parents in eight of those subscales, but for the "social relation" subscale, Italian parents scored their children higher than the Finnish parents. Some of these differences are evident for the different age groups and are already present at early developmental stages. In both the Finnish and Italian samples, the parents rated the girls' communicative performance as more competent than the boys' on a number of CCC-2 subscales. The results are discussed in light of previous evidence highlighting that cultural features affect and shape communicative style within society, leading to differences (and similarities) that should be considered when assessing children's communicative abilities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01