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Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.
(American Psychological Association, 2018)
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets
of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies
in response to various safety constraints. ...
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 ...
Relationship between Emotional Engagement and Academic Achievement among Kenyan Secondary School Students
(Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018-03-08)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional engagement and academic achievement among secondary school students of Manga Sub County, Nyamira County, Kenya. The study was hinged on the ...
Female Characters Contesting Maasai Traditional Cultural Practices And Materialism In H.R. Ole Kulet’s Blossoms Of The Savannah And Daughter Of Maa
(European Centre for Research Training and Development UK, 2018)
: This paper examines how the Kenyan writer H.R. Ole Kulet portrays female
characters vis-à-vis Maasai traditional practices in Blossoms of the Savannah and Daughter of Maa. It proceeds from the premise that characterization ...
A Linguistic Overview of the Patronymic and Gender Names amongst the Selected African Communities
(American Journal of Linguistics, 2018)
Most family systems world over are basically patriarchal in that children are given names bearing those of their
fathers. The tendency cuts across almost all cultures in the world. This trend has continued to exist from ...
Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator.
(American Psychological Association, 2018-02)
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents’ beliefs and behaviors moderates the
links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths’ adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children
(N = 1,298 families) from 12 ...
Bidirectional relations between parenting and behavior problems from age 8 to 13 in nine countries
(Society for Research on Adolescence, 2018-09)
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross‐cultural generalizability of ...
Somali refugees in Kenya and social resilience: Resettlement imaginings and the longing for Minnesota
(Oxford University Press, 2018-10-01)
Refugee camps are often perceived as unproductive places that waste people’s potential. What is left unremarked in many refugee accounts, however, is the positive side of camps. Highlighting suffering alone raises academic ...
Modes of legitimation by female Pentecostal-Charismatic preachers in East Africa: a comparative study in Kenya and Tanzania
(Routledge, 2018-07-03)
This paper examines the rise of female Pentecostal-Charismatic (PC) church leaders and how they legitimize themselves in a male dominated religious field in Kenya and Tanzania. It explores, in a qualitative way, four women ...
A Portrait Subverting the Normative Gender Identity
(Masaimara university, 2018)
Autobiographical discourses written by women globally in their perceptions indicate that women are struggling to be given an equal playing field in academia and politics. The paper looks at a portrait of the Legacy of ...