This study examines and compares prominent characteristics of maternal responsiveness to infant activity during home-based naturalistic interactions of mother-infant dyads in New York City, Paris, and Tokyo. Both culture-general and culture-specific patterns of responsiveness emerged. For example, in all 3 locales infants behaved similarly, mothers also behaved similarly with respect to a hiera...

This study investigated the influences of peer and parent variables on alcohol use and problems in a sample of late adolescents in the summer immediately prior to entry into college. Participants (N = 556) completed a mail survey assessing peer influences (alcohol offers, social modeling, perceived norms), parental behaviors (nurturance, monitoring), and attitudes and values (disapproval for he...

Y oung children need the daily nurturance and guidance of an adult in order to thrive. Mothers have traditionally provided these basics, but other arrangements have become necessary as women have flooded into the paid labor force. In 1975, some 39% of women with children under the age of six were in the labor force; by 1994, more than 60% were employed.1 Child care is a necessity for most of th...

Pets’ growing role in family dynamics creates questions about resources pets may provide in parenthood motivation. Pet ownership has been suggested in the literature as an antecedent to parenthood in terms of developing skills needed to rear offspring, nurturance, and responsibility. Participants (N = 118) who were pet owners, completed an online survey that recorded demographics and consisted ...

Three questionnaires measuring altruistic tendencies were completed by 573 adult twin pairs from the University of London Institute of Psychiatry Volunteer Twin Register. The questionnaires consisted of a 20-item Self-Report Altruism Scale, a 33-item Empathy Scale, and a 16-item Nurturance Scale, all of which had previously been shown to have construct validity. For the three scales, the intra-...

The main personality theories are those of Cloninger (1987), Eysenck (1987), Costa & McCrae (1990) and Watson et al (1994); and the circumflex models of Wiggins (1979) and Kiesler (1982), the latter being a circular arrangement of interpersonal dispositions around the orthogonal dimensions of dominance (v. submission) and nurturance (v. hostility). Broadly, the first four models encompass three...

The emergence of imaginative children’s music in the second half nineteenth century reframed relationship between children and revolutionary ways. dominant paradigm had been for to repetitiously practice mechanistic exercises, a time-consuming occupation that German composer Robert Schumann considered particularly wasteful tasteless. In response he composed Album für die Jugend 1848, collection...

As an artist-anthropologist who studies “making” through apprenticeship, I have discovered that craft production in the Mexican copper-smithing community of Santa Clara del Cobre is a practice care, kind love. This inversion careful and caring labor, required to create well-made copper piece, also encompasses qualities skills queer societal stereotypes binary gender-lines. Artisans generate bod...

Rationale: Parenting is an often-studied correlate of children's physical activity, however there is little research examining the associations between parenting styles, practices and the physical activity of