Description:
This measure collects basic demographic information each year, including parents’ ages, employment status, religion, living/marital situation, years of parental education, family income, child age, child gender and child’s living arrangements. Some questions on the form may vary from year-to-year. The youth version of this measure is the Current Life Circumstances Measure.
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Publication(s)
Chang, L., Lu, H., Lansford, J. E., Bornstein, M. H., Steinberg, L., Chen, B., Skinner, A. T., Dodge, K. A., Deater-Deckard, K., Bacchini, D., Pastorelli, C., Alampay, L. P., Tapanya, S., Sorbring, E., Oburu, P., Al-Hassan, S., Di Giunta, L., Malone, P. S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., & Yotanyamaneewong, S. (2019). External environment and internal state in relation to life-history behavioural profiles of adolescents in nine countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1917), 20192097.
Di Giunta, L., Rothenberg, W. A., Lunetti, C., Lansford, J. E., Pastorelli, C., Eisenberg, N. Thartori, E., Basili, E., Favini, A., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Dodge, K. A., Oburu, P., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., & Uribe Tirado, L. M. (2020). Longitudinal associations between mothers’ and fathers’ anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents’ socioemotional functioning in nine countries. Developmental Psychology, 56(3), 458–474.
Gurdal, Sevtap. (2015). Children and Parents: Attributions, Attitudes and Agency. University of Gothenburg and University West: Sweden.
Hanson, J. L., Albert, W. D., Skinner, A. T., Shen, S. H., Dodge, K. A., & Lansford, J. E. (2019). Resting state coupling between the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex is related to household income in childhood and indexes future psychological vulnerability to stress. Development and Psychopathology, 31(3), 1053-1066.
Jocson, M. R. M., Alampay, L. P., & Lansford, J. E. (2012). Predicting Filipino mothers’ and fathers’ reported use of corporal punishment from education, authoritarian attitudes, and endorsement of corporal punishment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 36, 137-145.
Lansford, J. E., Malone, P. S., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Zelli, A., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A. S., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., & Steinberg, L. (2019). Household income predicts trajectories of child internalizing and externalizing behavior in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43(1), 74-79.
Lansford, J. E., Rothenberg, W. A., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bornstein, M. H., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Gurdal, S., Liu, Q., Long, Q., Morgenstern, G., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Steinberg, L., & Uribe Tirado, L. M. (2023). Compliance with health recommendations and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID pandemic in nine countries. Prevention Science, 25(2), 230-244.
Lansford, J. E., Zietz, S., Bornstein, M. H., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Gurdal, S., Liu, Q., Long, Q., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Steinberg, L., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Yotanyamaneewong, S., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., & Chang, L. (2020). Opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency during adolescence in nine countries. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020(172), 73-88.
Putnick, D. L., Bornstein, M. H., Lansford, J. E., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., Malone, P. S., Oburu, P., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Zelli, A., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., & Bombi, A. S. (2018). Parental acceptance-rejection and child prosocial behavior: Developmental transactions across the transition to adolescence in nine countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys. Developmental Psychology, 54, 1881-1890.
Putnick, D. L., Bornstein, M. H., Lansford, J. E., Malone, P. S., Pastorelli, C., Skinner, A. T., Sorbring, E., Tapanya, S., Uribe Tirado, L. M., Zelli, A., Alampay, L. P., Al-Hassan, S. M., Bacchini, D., Bombi, A. S., Chang, L., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., & Oburu, P. (2015). Perceived mother and father acceptance-rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 56 (8), 923-932.
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