Parenting Across Cultures

Parenting Across Cultures is an international group of researchers representing nine countries who are conducting the largest multi-cultural study to date to understand how parents' discipline strategies and other aspects of parent-child relationships affect children's development.

The researchers are conducting interviews with children, mothers, and fathers in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, United States, and Thailand). Each interview lasts 1-2 hours and addresses questions related to parents' warmth, control, discipline strategies, attitudes, and beliefs and to children's behavior, attitudes, and beliefs. Initial interviews were conducted in 2008-2009. Follow-up interviews are being conducted in 2009-2010 and are planned for 2010-2011.

Participants in the Parenting Across Cultures Working Group

1. Liane Alampay, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines
2. Dario Bacchini, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
3. Anna Silvia Bombi, Rome University ‘La Sapienza,' Rome, Italy
4. Marc H. Bornstein, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
5. Kirby Deater-Deckard, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
6. Kenneth A. Dodge, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
7. Lei Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
8. Jennifer E. Lansford, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
9. Patrick S. Malone, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
10. Paul Oburu, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya
11. Concetta Pastorelli, Rome University 'La Sapienza,' Rome, Italy
12. Desmond K. Runyan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
13. Emma Sorbring, University West, Sweden
14. Sombat Tapanya, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
15. Arnaldo Zelli, Istituto Universitario di Scienze Motorie, Rome, Italy
16. Suha Al-Hassan, Hashemite University, Amman, Jordan
17. Luz Adriana Araque Marquez, Universidad San Buenaventura, Medellin, Colombia

Publications
Lansford, J. E., Chang, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Palmérus, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Bombi , A. S., Zelli, A., Tapanya, S., Chaudhary, N., Deater-Deckard, K., Manke, B., & Quinn, N. (2005). Cultural normativeness as a moderator of the link between physical discipline and children's adjustment: A comparison of China , India , Italy , Kenya , Philippines , and Thailand. Child Development, 76, 1234-1246.