Early Parenting in China: Associations and Interactions with Socialization Context, Child Self-Control, and Social Adjustment

Embracing the perspectives that multiple contextual factors are associated with maternal parenting behaviors and that the predictions of maternal parenting behaviors to child social adjustment are different depending on child characteristics, this thesis is focused on examining these developmental processes in the Chinese cultural context of early socialization. The aims are threefold. First, we aim at measuring and describing how Chinese mothers use a broad spectrum of parenting behaviors with young children. Second, we aim at describing the similarities and differences between Chinese and Du... Mehr ...