Department of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Stress related factors among primary and part-time caregiving grandmothers of Kenyan grandchildren
(SAGE Publications, 2005-06)The present study examined whether the total stress experienced by 241 caregiving grandmothers was linked to levels of care provided, child behavioral difficulty, and perceived availability of emotional and instrumental ... -
Caregiving stress and adjustment problems of Kenyan orphans raised by grandmothers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-06)The present study compared levels of caregiving stress among 115 biological mothers and 134 grandmothers raising their orphaned grandchildren. The associations between parenting stress and adjustment difficulties exhibited ... -
Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2005-11)Interviews were conducted with 336 mother–child dyads (children's ages ranged from 6 to 17 years; mothers' ages ranged from 20 to 59 years) in China, India, Italy, Kenya, the Philippines, and Thailand to examine whether ... -
Corporal punishment of children in nine countries as a function of child gender and parent gender
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2010-01-01)The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a global perspective on corporal punishment by examining differences between mothers’ and fathers’ use of corporal punishment with daughters and sons in nine countries. Methods. ... -
Secondary school headteachers quality assurance strategies and challenges in Gucha district, Kenya
(Academic Journals, 2010-07-31)The desire to provide quality education for all Kenyan children was one of the major objectives of the struggle for independence. The government is currently implementing measures to improve the quality of education in ... -
Children’s perceptions of maternal hostility as a mediator of the link between discipline and children’s adjustment in four countries
(Sage Publications, 2010-09)Using data from 195 dyads of mothers and children (age range ¼ 8–12 years; M ¼ 10.63) in four countries (China, India, the Philippines, and Thailand), this study examined children’s perceptions of maternal hostility as a ... -
Attributions and attitudes of mothers and fathers in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2011-04-01)The present study examined differences and similarities between Kenyan mothers and fathers in attributions regarding successes and failures in caregiving situations and progressive versus authoritarian attitudes. -
Measurement invariance of discipline in different cultural contexts
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-06-01)The measurement invariance of mother-reported use of 18 discipline strategies was examined in samples from 13 different ethnic/cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, ... -
Social adjustment of Kenyan orphaned grandchildren, perceived caregiving stresses and discipline strategies used by their fostering grandmothers
(Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2004)The aim of the thesis was to examine whether experienced stress, adjustment of orphans and discipline strategies used by 328 grandmothers were linked to disruptions in life courses that occurs when children are orphaned ... -
The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups.
(American Psychological Association, 2011-10)The goal of the current study was to investigate potential cross-cultural differences in the covariation between two of the major dimensions of parenting behavior: control and warmth. Participants included 1421 (51% female) ... -
Boys’ and girls’ relational and physical aggression in nine countries
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012-07)Distinguishing between relational and physical aggression has become a key feature of many developmental studies in North America and Western Europe, but very little information is available on relational and physical ... -
Agreement in mother and father acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect of children across nine countries
(Sage Publications, 2018-08)The authors assessed whether mothers’ and fathers’ self-reports of acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect (HRN) of their preadolescent children differ cross-nationally and relative to the gender of ... -
Moderating effects of age gender and orphan hood on Social Exclusion and Sexual risk-taking Behaviors associated with HIV/AIDS among youth in Bondo District, Kenya
(Elixir, 2010-10-30)Numerous studies on adolescents have explored factors associated with sexual risk-taking behaviors among youth. However, few studies have examined the link between social exclusion of youth in social and sexual matters ... -
Childrearing violence and child adjustment after exposure to Kenyan post-election violence.
(Educational Publishing Foundation, 2014-01)This study examines parents' and children's exposure to short-term political violence and the relation between childrearing violence and child adjustment following widespread violence that erupted in Kisumu, Kenya after ... -
Neighborhood danger, parental monitoring, harsh parenting, and child aggression in nine countries
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014-03)Exposure to neighborhood danger during childhood has negative effects that permeate multiple dimensions of childhood. The current study examined whether mothers’, fathers’, and children’s perceptions of neighborhood danger ... -
Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: A longitudinal study in eight countries
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-07-01)Two key tasks facing parents across cultures are managing children’s behaviors (and misbehaviors) and conveying love and affection. Previous research has found that corporal punishment generally is related to worse child ... -
A longitudinal examination of mothers’ and fathers’ social information processing biases and harsh discipline in nine countries
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-08)This study examined whether parents’ social information processing was related to their subsequent reports of their harsh discipline. Interviews were conducted with mothers (n = 1,277) and fathers (n = 1,030) of children ... -
Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self‐reports
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015-06)We assessed 2 forms of agreement between mothers’ and fathers’ socially desirable responding in China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand and the United States (N =1110 families). Mothers ... -
Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context
(National Academy of Sciences, 2015-07-28)We tested a model that children’s tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive ... -
Perceived mother and father acceptance‐rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2015-08): It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have ...
