This study evaluates the effects of adolescent exposure to cross-community violence, intense paramilitary operations, aggression, and intimidation in Northern Ireland. Using publicly available survey data gathered by agencies in Northern Ireland, the research examines the effects of exposure to political violence with focus upon the manner by which adolescents have become politically socialized...

With a young population structure, consumers in Vietnam have been becoming driving force and major purchasing power behind the economic development. While ethical issues associated with consumerism topic of discussion society, stepped up to plate by showing positive support for being consumers. It is still unclear, however, whether they are willing actualize their perspective, as alleged attitu...

Preschoolers' socialization of emotion and its contribution to emotional competence is likely to be highly gendered. In their work, the authors have found that mothers often take on the role of emotional gatekeeper in the family, and fathers act as loving playmates, but that parents' styles of socialization of emotion do not usually differ for sons and daughters. They also found several themes ...

This paper examines the European Union’s interaction with civil society organizations in Armenia through the European Neighbourhood Policy as a potential example of normative socialization. Through examining the EU’s interaction with domestic NGOs in Armenia, this paper offers an evaluation of the socialization mechanism coupled with a general critique of the EU’s democratization policy in rela...

This study aims at exploring Korean mothers' belieft on the development of emotion of their children. In specijic, sensitivity and matern al reactions to their children's both negative and positive emotion expressions were explored. Further, associations among maternal sensitivity, matern al reactions and child emotion regulation were examined. A total of 100 Korean mothers whose children were ...

This study investigated the relationship between the monetary giving and volunteering behavior of adolescents and the role-modeling and conversations about giving provided by their parents. The participants are a large nationally-representative sample of 12-18 year-olds from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics’ Child Development Supplement (n = 1,244). Adolescents reported whether they gave mone...

Family is the most influential agent among the different social factors that significantly influences the growth and development of any child. The family environment, economic status, socio-educational status of parents influences the different milestones of child development. Education is an important dimension of child’s development and it’s an important driving force in the process of social...

Research in the field of minority languagemaintenance and loss regards the family as the central driving force in children’s language socialization within the context of both minority and majority languages. The present review of current literature focuses on the emerging field of family language policy and addresses the following three components: ideology, management and practice. The integra...