Culture, Temperament, and the "Difficult Child": A Study in Seven Western Cultures

Autor/inn/en	Super, Charles M.; Axia, Giovanna; Harkness, Sara; Welles-Nystrom, Barbara; Zylicz, Piotr Olaf; Parmar, Parminder; Bonichini, Sabrina; Bermúdez, Moisés Rios; Moscardino, Ughetta; Kolar, Violet; Palacios, Jesús; Eliasz, Andrzej; McGurk, Harry
Titel	Culture, Temperament, and the "Difficult Child": A Study in Seven Western Cultures
Quelle	In: European Journal of Developmental Science, 2 (2008) 1-2, S.136-157 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1863-3811
DOI	10.3233/DEV-2008-21209
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Personality Traits; Cross Cultural Studies; Behavior Problems; Parent Attitudes; Mother Attitudes; Correlation; Multidimensional Scaling; Parent Child Relationship; Child Development; Preschool Children; Shyness; Cultural Differences; Child Rearing; Austria; Italy; Netherlands; Poland; Spain; Sweden; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Elternverhalten; Mutterliebe; Korrelation; Mehrdimensionale Analysis; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindesentwicklung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Schüchternheit; Kultureller Unterschied; Kindererziehung; Österreich; Italien; Niederlande; Polen; Spanien; Schweden; USA
Abstract	This study explores parental ethnotheories of children's temperament through mothers' responses to McDevitt and Carey's Behavioral Style Questionnaire (1978) for 299 children aged 3 to 8 years and interviews with their parents, in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. We first established a standardized, "derived etic" version of the questionnaire with adequate reliability for 8 of the original 9 scales. Cross-cultural comparisons of the scales' means showed generally similar perceptions of children's behavior. However, intercorrelations of the mean ratings with each other and with global "difficulty," as presented through multidimensional scaling, showed both general tendencies and culture-specific patterns, which are further illustrated by parental discourse about "difficult" children in each sample. The findings underline the importance of parental ethnotheories for shaping the expression of temperament in development. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01