Mother-Child Emotional Availability in Ecological Perspective: Three Countries, Two Regions, Two Genders

Autor/inn/en	Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L.; Heslington, Marianne; Gini, Motti; Suwalsky, Joan T. D.; Venuti, Paola; de Falco, Simona; Giusti, Zeno; de Galperin, Celia Zingman
Titel	Mother-Child Emotional Availability in Ecological Perspective: Three Countries, Two Regions, Two Genders
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 44 (2008) 3, S.666-680 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/0012-1649.44.3.666
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Daughters; Sons; Parent Child Relationship; Rural Areas; Metropolitan Areas; Gender Differences; Child Development; Cross Cultural Studies; Foreign Countries; Emotional Development; Social Development; Parenting Styles; Argentina; Italy; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Daughter; Tochter; Son; Sohn; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ballungsraum; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kindesentwicklung; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Ausland; Gefühlsbildung; Soziale Entwicklung; Argentinien; Italien; USA
Abstract	This study used a cross-national framework to examine country, region, and gender differences in emotional availability (EA), a prominent index of mutual socioemotional adaptation in the parent-child dyad. Altogether 220 Argentine, Italian, and U.S. mothers and their daughters and sons from both rural and metropolitan areas took part in home observations when the children were 20 months old. In terms of country, Italian mothers were more sensitive and optimally structuring, and Italian children were more responsive and involving, than Argentine and U.S. dyads. In terms of region, rural mothers were more intrusive than metropolitan mothers, and boys from metropolitan areas were more responsive than boys from rural areas. In terms of gender, mothers of girls were more sensitive and optimally structuring than mothers of boys, and daughters were more responsive and involving than sons. Understanding how country, region, and gender influence EA exposes forces that shape child development, parent-infant interaction, and family systems. (Contains 4 tables, 1 figure, and 1 footnote.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10