Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Being sensitive in their own way: parental ethnotheories of caregiver sensitivity and child emotion regulation across five countries
Originally published 2023-12-22 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1283748 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Can attentive parenting look different across cultures?
This study supports a culturally attentive reading of Respect by examining different meanings of proactive and reactive sensitivity instead of equating one national style with good parenting.
Who was studied?
472 mothers in India, Nepal, Korea, the United States and Germany
Age / stage: Children aged 6–7 years
Read with three questions
- How did the study distinguish reactive from proactive sensitivity?
- Which associations varied between the five samples?
- Why is nationality an incomplete measure of an individual family’s cultural values?
Keep the limits in view
The study used questionnaires and one-city samples, and did not directly measure individual cultural-value endorsement. Cross-sectional associations cannot establish direction or represent entire countries.
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Ju-Hyun Song; Sook In Cho; Gisela Trommsdorff; Pamela Cole; Shanta Niraula; Ramesh Mishra (2023). Being sensitive in their own way: parental ethnotheories of caregiver sensitivity and child emotion regulation across five countries Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1283748
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