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Factors Affecting the Utilisation of Time as a Selected Teaching/Learning Resource in Public Day Secondary Schools in Nyacheki Division, Kisii County, Kenya
(Pacharapa Naka, 2016)
The Kenyan government provides financial and technical help for the provision of teaching learning resources in secondary schools Despite the government’s effort to allocate resources to secondary schools, there is still ...
Mothers', fathers' and children's perceptions of parents' expectations about children's family obligations in nine countries
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016-10-01)
Children's family obligations involve assistance and respect that children are
expected to provide to immediate and extended family members and reflect beliefs related to
family life that may differ across cultural ...
Child physical abuse and neglect in Kenya, Zambia and the Netherlands: A cross‐cultural comparison of prevalence, psychopathological sequelae and mediation b...
(2013-04-01)
This study compared the prevalence of self‐reported childhood physical abuse and neglect and the associated psychopathological sequelae among Kenyan, Zambian, and Dutch university students. In addition, we sought to find ...
Cross‐cultural effects of parent warmth and control on aggression and rule‐breaking from ages 8 to 13
(Wiley, 2020-04-05)
We investigated whether bidirectional associations between parental warmth and behavioral control and child aggression and rule‐breaking behavior emerged in 12 cultural groups. Study participants included 1,298 children ...
Longitudinal associations between mothers’ and fathers’ anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents’ socioemotional functioning in nine countries.
(American Psychological Association, 2020-03)
The present study examines parents’ self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children’s irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors ...
Examining effects of parent warmth and control on internalizing behavior clusters from age 8 to 12 in 12 cultural groups in nine countries
(Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2020-04)
Studies of U.S. and European samples demonstrate that parental warmth and behavioral control predict child internalizing behaviors and vice versa. However, these patterns have not been researched in other cultures. This ...
Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures
(society for research on adolescence., 2020-07-01)
We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing and internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents from 12 cultural groups. We did not find that single ...
Examining the internalizing pathway to substance use frequency in 10 cultural groups
(Pergamon, 2020-03-01)
Use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs (i.e., substance use) is a leading cause of global health burden for 10-to-24-year-olds, according to the World Health Organization’s index of number of years of life lost, leading ...
Examining effects of mother and father warmth and control on child externalizing and internalizing problems from age 8 to 13 in nine countries
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-12-13)
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States; N = 1,315) to investigate bidirectional associations between parental ...
Associations Between Perceived Material Deprivation, Parents’ Discipline Practices, and Children's Behavior Problems: An International Perspective
(Society for Research in Child Development, 2020-01)
This study investigated the association between perceived material deprivation, children's behavior problems, and parents’ disciplinary practices. The sample included 1,418 8‐ to 12‐year‐old children and their parents in ...