Department of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Associations Between Perceived Material Deprivation, Parents’ Discipline Practices, and Children’s Behavior Problems: An International Perspective
(Wiley, 2020)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 ... -
Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent–Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups
(Springer, 2020)Internalizing and externalizing problems increase during adolescence. However, these problems may be mitigated by adequate parenting, including effective parent–adolescent communication. The ways in which parent-driven ... -
Examining the internalizing pathway to substance use frequency in 10 cultural groups
(Pergamon, 2020)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 ... -
Longitudinal associations between mothers’ and fathers’ anger/ irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents’ socioemotional functioning in nine countries
(American Psychological Association, 2020)The present study examined 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 ... -
Cross‐cultural effects of parent warmth and control on aggression and rule‐breaking from ages 8 to 13
(Wiley, 2020)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 ... -
Opportunities and Peer Support for Aggression and Delinquency During Adolescence in Nine Countries
(New directions for child and adolescent development, 2020)This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural ... -
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, 2020)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 ... -
Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures
(Society for Research on Adolescence, 2020)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 ... -
Positive Youth Development: Parental Warmth, Values, and Prosocial Behavior in 11 Cultural Groups
(Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2021)The current cross-cultural study aimed to extend research on parenting and children’s prosocial behavior by examining relations among parental warmth, values related to family obligations (i.e., children’s support to and ... -
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from the Longitudinal Parenting Across Cultures Project
(Policy Press, 2021)empirical findings from PAC are summarized to illustrate implications for six specific SDGs related to child and adolescent development in relation to education, poverty, gender, mental health, and well-being. Then the ... -
Longitudinal trajectories of four domains of parenting in relation to adolescent age and puberty in nine countries
(Society for Research in Child Development, 2021)Children, mothers, and fathers in 12 ethnic and regional groups in nine countries (N = 1,338 families) were interviewed annually for 8 years (Mage child = 8–16 years) to model four domains of parenting as a function of ... -
Four Domains Of Parenting In Kenya
(Routledge, 2021)The goals of this study were to track changes in parental warmth and rules/limit-setting over time and to examine parents’ age at the time of their child’s birth, parents’ education, and child gender in relation to changes ... -
Culture and Social Change in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Individualism, Collectivism and Parenting Attitudes
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021)Cultures and families are not static over time but evolve in response to social transformations, such as changing gender roles, urbanization, globalization, and technology uptake. Historically, individualism and collectivism ... -
Culture and Social Change in Mothers’ and Fathers’ Individualism, Collectivism and Parenting Attitudes
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021)Cultures and families are not static over time but evolve in response to social transformations, such as changing gender roles, urbanization, globalization, and technology uptake. Historically, individualism and collectivism ... -
Pre-pandemic psychological and behavioral predictors of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in nine countries
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents (N = 1,330; Mages = 15 and 16; 50% female), mothers, and fathers from nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, United States) reported ... -
Dyadic coping, parental warmth, and adolescent externalizing behavior in four countries
(SAGE Publications, 2022)This study examined parental warmth as a mediator of relations between mothers’ and fathers’ perceptions of dyadic coping and adolescent externalizing outcomes. Data from 472 adolescents, mothers, and fathers were ... -
A confirmatory factor analysis of the career locus of control scale with secondary school students in Kenya
(Elixir International Journal, 2021)This article presents the confirmatory factor analysis of the 20 item career locus of control scale with a sample of 370 secondary school students. The instrument consists of 4 subscales measuring Internality, Luck, ... -
INTEREST AND SCIENCE PERFORMANCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MIGORI COUNTY, KENYA: GENDER AS A MODERATOR
(Research and Analysis Journal, 2020)The purpose of this study was to establish the moderating role of gender in the influence of interest on science performance among secondary school students in Migori county. A sample of 327 Form Four students in Migori ... -
Factors contributing to antimalarial drug resistance in Rachuonyo district, Kenya.
(2010-03-01)Drug resistance has been identified as one of the factors that lead to severe malaria and high mortality as observed in malaria endemic areas. The main objective of this study was to establish the factors that contribute ... -
Personality as a Predictor of Involvement in Risky Sexual Behaviour: A Study Conducted Among Students in Secondary Schools in Nyakach Sub-county Kisumu County, Kenya
(Science publishing group, 2016-11-23)Risky sexual behaviour is a common habit among young people in the world, but its relation with personality has not been explored exhaustively, especially in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship ...
