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Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries
(Wiley, 2025-04-23)Primal world beliefs (“primals”) capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, ... -
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study
(Routledge, 2025-05-02)The present study explored the bidirectional longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and school performance during adolescence in six countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the ... -
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture
(Routledge, 2025-05-07)Primals are beliefs about the world’s character (e.g. good, safe, enticing, or alive) that are associated with well-being and behavioral patterns. But primals’ developmental origins remain mysterious, hampering theoretical ... -
Positive risk taking across the world
(Wiley, 2025-06)Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk tak ing, which can benefit adolescent ... -
Physical activity and two‐year change in adolescent well‐being in nine countries
(Wiley, 2025-06)The benefits of physical activity (PA) for well- being are well known; however, studies examining longitudinal effects across diverse international samples in late adolescence are limited. This study advances prior ... -
A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent‐to‐Young Adult Executive Function Development in Seven Countries
(Wiley, 2025-07)Executive functioning (EF) is an important developing self-regulatory process that has implications for academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Most work in EF has focused on childhood, and less has examined the development ... -
Parenting Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Conduct Problems in Seven Countries
(Springer US, 24-11-07)This study advances the understanding of risk and protective factors in trajectories of conduct problems in adolescence in seven countries that differ widely on a number of sociodemographic factors as well as norms related ... -
The Syntax of Head-Marked Phrases and Head-Marking Morphemes in Lunyore
(Indiana Journal of Arts & Literature, 2024-10-22)A language is head-marking if the grammatical marks showing agreement tend to be placed on the heads of phrases. Lunyore like many bantu languages is agglutinating and therefore has a rich and complex morphology. The ... -
Semantic Role-Marking in Lunyore Morphology and Syntax
(East African Scholars Multidisciplinary Bulletin, 2024)Semantic roles denote different semantic relations that a noun phrase plays with respect to the action or state described by a predicate of a sentence. Semantic is another universal feature of language, if there is an event ... -
Hiatal configurations and their resolution in kinshasa lingala: evidence from songs by TPOK jazz band
(International Research Journal of Rongo University, 2024-10-02)This paper is a constraint-based description of hiatal configurations in Kinshasa Lingala and the strategies used to resolve them in connected speech. The study is grounded in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004) ... -
Psychological, socioeconomic burdens and coping mechanisms of caregivers of children with bronchoasthma in Kakamega County, Kenya
(2023-11-04)Childhood bronchoasthma consistently pose diverse caregiving burdens yet, magnitude of these and coping mechanisms adopted by caregivers are infrequently assessed during routine care only focused on index patients -
Stress Among the Undergraduate Students in Public Universities in Kenya
(IGI Global, 2024)Stress is an emotional feeling of tension. Stress is the body's reaction to a challenge or demand. The arising struggles of life in developing countries of the world has led to the increase of stress in instructions of ... -
Financial Stressors Among Students in Higher Educational Institutions
(IGI Global, 2024)It is expected that students in higher educational institutions should experience financial wellness. Contrarily, a majority of them are facing financial distress. The study adopted a literature review method. The objective ... -
Assessment of the Differences in Juvenile Crime Based on Family set-up among Secondary School Students in Kisii County, Kenya
(East African Scholars Multidisciplinary Bulletin, 2024-09-05)Juvenile crime is a huge concern across the world today. Young individuals engage in antisocial behaviors such as theft, robbery, rape, drug and substance misuse, drug trafficking, disdain for authority, and even murder. ... -
From your seat in Heaven, hear our prayer: Prayer in the Nomiya Church.
(2024-07-01)Prayer is the act of communication by humans with God and beings in the transcendent realm. The Nomiya Church (NC) is the oldest African Independent Church in Kenya. It was founded by Johana Owalo who saw the Arabs, the ... -
African Women, Covid-19, Grounded theology and the adoption of a religious virtual space in CITAM Ngong Church and Nomiya Luo Church in Kenya.
(Pharos Journal of Theology, 2024-08-01)The Republic of Kenya Ministry of Health update on Corona Virus on 13th February 2020 insisted that persons were to avoid close contact with people suffering from acute respiratory infections. A ban was imposed on public ... -
Introduction: Themes in African Pentecostalism
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024-10-29)This chapter provides the background to the volume. The volume, located within the larger discourse of the contribution by African scholars to the study of African Pentecostalism, brings to the fore some of the key themes ... -
The Eucharist in the Time of COVID-19: Adaptations and Transformations in Christ Is The Answer Ministries (CITAM) Church in Kenya
(Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024-10-29)COVID-19 changed the religious landscape across many regions of the world. In Kenya, public gatherings were prohibited at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Further into the pandemic, face-to-face religious services ... -
9 The Catholic Church and Psychosocial Support for Survivors of Violent Conflicts in Kenya’s North Rift
(University of Bamberg Press, 2024-07-22)Violent ethnic conflicts have devastating consequences on individuals, families, and communities. The physical, emotional, and psychological trauma that survivors of such conflicts experience can leave lasting scars that ... -
The development of prosocial behavior from late childhood to adolescence: a longitudinal and multicultural study
(Frontiers Media SA, 2024-10-15)Prosocial behavior (i.e., voluntary actions aimed at benefiting others, such as helping, comforting, and sharing) has proven beneficial for individuals' adjustment during the transition to adolescence. However, less is ...
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