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Education and Parenting in Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2019)
This chapter discusses parenting practices and students’ academic achievement in light of Kenya’s current education system. An attempt is made to trace the evolution of the Kenyan education system through the years from ...
A cross-sectional examination of response inhibition and working memory on the Stroop task
(JAI, 2018-07-01)
The authors examined the association between working memory and response inhibition on the Stroop task using a cross-sectional, international sample of 5099 individuals (49.3% male) ages 10–30 (M = 17.04 years; SD = 5.9). ...
Roles of Multiple Stakeholder Partnerships in Addressing Developmental and Implementation Challenges of Sustainable Development Goals
(Springer, Cham, 2018)
This chapter discusses the roles of transnational multiple stakeholder partnerships in addressing development and implementation challenges affecting youth and children in both rich as well as low- and middle-income ...
Parenting and Positive Adjustment for Adolescents in Nine Countries
(Springer, Cham, 2017)
This chapter describes the theoretical background, methodology, and select empirical findings from the Parenting Across Cultures project, a longitudinal study of mothers, fathers, and youth in nine countries (China, Colombia, ...
Parenting, environment, and early child development in sub-Saharan Africa
(Springer, New York, NY, 2017)
This chapter describes the contemporary situation of children in sub-Saharan Africa with successive foci on child growth, the home environment, parenting, and discipline using data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey ...
Psychosocial stimulation: A qualitative study on Kenyan Mother’s motives and challenges to promote children’s development
(Springer US, 2016-06-01)
Interventions designed to enhance the mental and socio-emotional development of children in low and middle income countries through improving psychosocial stimulation are the subject of national and international organizations ...
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, ...
Forging Associations Across Multiple Spaces: How Somali Kinship Practices Sustain the Existence of the Dadaab Camps in Kenya
(Springer, Cham, 2019)
Scholars increasingly have challenged the idea that camps as social worlds can only be visualized in terms of helplessness, immobility, and isolation. Similarly, this contribution demonstrates that Somali kinship practices ...
Linguistic Conceptualizations of Disease Among the Luo of Kenya
(Sage Publications, 2018)
The region inhabited by the Luo ethnic group in Kenya is disease endemic. However, disease awareness initiatives register low acceptance due to the sociocultural images of disease and illness conceptualized in the local ...
Learning together: Participatory rural appraisal for coproduction of climate change knowledge
(SAGE, 2020)
Literature indicates a general consensus that knowledge on climate change is critical for enhancing community-based adaptation. Local knowledge tends to be localized to specific contexts and needs to be enhanced to ensure ...