Childhood and Adolescence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications (Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology)

985 Pages·2004·3.39 MB·English

by  Uwe P. Gielen

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Childhood and Adolescence : Cross-cultural
title: Perspectives and Applications Advances in
Applied Developmental Psychology
author: Gielen, Uwe P.; Roopnarine, Jaipaul L.
publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
isbn10 | asin: 1567506607
print isbn13: 9781567506600
ebook isbn13: 9780313051371
language: English
Child psychology--Cross-cultural studies--
Congresses, Adolescent psychology--Cross-
subject
cultural studies--Congresses,
Ethnopsychology--Congresses.
publication date: 2004
lcc: BF721.W67 2000eb
ddc: 155.4
Child psychology--Cross-cultural studies--
Congresses, Adolescent psychology--Cross-
subject: cultural studies--Congresses,
Ethnopsychology--Congresses.
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Childhood and Adolescence
Page ii
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Childhood and Adolescence
Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications
Edited by
Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine
Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, Number 23
Irving E. Sigel, Series Editor
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Workshop on Childhood and Adolescence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(2000 : New
York Academy of Sciences)
Childhood and adolescence : cross-cultural perspectives and applications
/ edited by
Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine.
p. cm.—(Advances in applied developmental psychology ; no. 23)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1–56750–660–7 (alk. paper)—ISBN 1–56750–661–5 (pbk. : alk.
paper)
1. Childhood psychology—Cross-cultural studies—Congresses. 2.
Adolescent
psychology—Cross-cultural studies—Congresses. 3. Ethnopsychology—
Congresses.
I. Gielen, Uwe P. (Uwe Peter), 1940– II. Roopnarine, Jaipaul L. III. Title.
IV. Series.
BF721.W67 2004
155.4—dc22 2004042785
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Contents
Foreword
T. S. Saraswathi ix
Introduction
Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul Roopnarine xiii
Part I
Worldwide Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence 1
1 The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: An Opinionated
Historical Introduction

Uwe P. Gielen 3
2 Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood
Xinyin Chen and Violet Kaspar 46
3 All the World’s Children: The Impact of Global Demographic Trends and
Economic Disparities

Uwe P. Gielen and Oksana Chumachenko 81
4 Literacy Development in Global Perspective: A Research and Policy
Approach

Daniel A. Wagner 110
Part II
Childcare and Parenting 131
5 Social Contexts of Weaning: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Studies
Hillary N. Fouts 133
Page vi
Challenging Expert Knowledge: Findings from an African Study of
6 Infant Care and Development

149
Robert A. LeVine
Competence and Satisfaction in Parenting Young Children: An
7 Ecological, Multivariate Comparison of Expressions and Sources of
Self-Evaluation in the United States and Argentina

Marc H. Bornstein, O. Maurice Haynes, Liliana Pascual, and Kathleen
166
M. Painter
Part III
Two Themes in Children’s Lives: Gender Roles and Siblings 197
Gender Roles in Childhood and Adolescence
8 Deborah L. Best 199
Sibling Interactions
9 Ashley E. Maynard 229
Part IV
Adolescents in the Global Village 253
Adolescents in the Developing World
10 Judith L. Gibbons 255
Adolescence in the Twenty-First Century: A Worldwide Survey
11 Jeffrey Jensen Arnett 277
Part V
The Adaptation of Immigrant Children in the United States 295
The Adaptation and Acculturation of Children from Immigrant Families
12 Andrew J. Fuligni 297
Factors Tied to the Schooling of Children of English-Speaking
Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
13 Jaipaul Roopnarine, Pauline F. Bynoe, and Ronald Singh 319
The Acquisition of English and Maintenance of First Language by
14 Immigrant Children and Adolescents in North America

350
Gisela Jia
Part VI
Difficult Adjustments 375
The Changing Developmental Dynamics of Children in Particularly
15 Difficult Circumstances: Examples of Street and War-Traumatized
Children
377
Lewis Aptekar
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology
16 Thomas M. Achenbach 411