Distal and proximal parenting as alternative parenting strategies during infants' early months of life: A cross-cultural study

Autor(en): Keller, Heidi
Borke, Joern
Staufenbiel, Thomas 
Yovsi, Relindis D.
Abels, Monika
Papaligoura, Zaira
Jensen, Henning
Lohaus, Arnold
Chaudhary, Nandita
Lo, Wingshan
Su, Yanjie
Stichwörter: CAMEROONIAN NSO; CHINESE; COMMUNITIES; culture; ETHNOTHEORIES; EXPERIENCES; GERMAN WOMEN; infancy; mother-child interaction; MOTHERS; parenting strategies; Psychology; Psychology, Developmental; SELF-RECOGNITION; SOCIALIZATION; socialization goals; TO-FACE COMMUNICATION
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Herausgeber: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Enthalten in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT
Band: 33
Ausgabe: 5
Startseite: 412
Seitenende: 420
Zusammenfassung: 
Cultures differ with respect to parenting strategies already during infancy. Distal parenting, i.e., face-to-face context and object stimulation, is prevalent in urban educated middle-class families of Western cultures; proximal parenting, i.e., body contact and body stimulation, is prevalent in rural, low-educated farmer families. Parents from urban educated families in cultures with a more interdependent history use both strategies. Besides these cultural preferences, little is known about the relations between these styles as well as the behavioural systems constituting them. In this study therefore, the relations between the styles and the constituting behaviours were analysed in samples that differ with respect to their preferences of distal and proximal parenting. The hypothesized differences between the samples and the negative relationship between distal and proximal parenting, as well as between the respective behavioural systems can clearly be demonstrated. Furthermore, the impact of the sociodemographic variables with respect to the parenting strategies can be shown. Results were discussed as supporting two alternative parenting strategies that serve different socialization goals.
ISSN: 01650254
DOI: 10.1177/0165025409338441

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