Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Positive Youth Development: Parental Warmth, Values, and Prosocial Behavior in 11 Cultural Groups
Originally published 2021-01-01 · Journal of youth development : bridging research and practice
Clemson University · DOI 10.5195/jyd.2021.1026 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How do warmth and shared family values accompany prosocial development across cultures?
Connects warmth, shared family obligations and prosocial development across multiple cultural settings. It offers a stronger basis for discussing family kindness across contexts while retaining the distinction between association and causation.
Who was studied?
Mothers, fathers and children in 1,107 families across eleven cultural groups in eight countries.
Age / stage: Approximately 9–12 years
Read with three questions
- Which cultural groups and countries were represented?
- How did changes in warmth, family-obligation values and prosocial behavior relate?
- Were the patterns identical in every group?
Keep the limits in view
The longitudinal findings remain correlational and based on reported measures. Cultural coverage is substantial but does not represent every family or establish universal causal effects.
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Concetta Pastorelli; Antonio Zuffianò; Jennifer E. Lansford; Eriona Thartori; Marc H. Bornstein; Lei Chang; Kirby Deater-Deckard; Laura Di Giunta; Kenneth A. Dodge; Sevtap Gurdal; Qin Liu; Qian Long; Paul Oburu; Ann T. Skinner; Emma Sorbring; Laurence Steinberg; Sombat Tapanya; Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado; Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong; Suha Al-Hassan; Liane Peña Alampay; Dario Bacchini (2021). Positive Youth Development: Parental Warmth, Values, and Prosocial Behavior in 11 Cultural Groups Journal of youth development : bridging research and practice. https://doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2021.1026
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