Browsing by Author "Keller, Heidi"

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    Bringing the Real World Into Developmental Science: A Commentary on Weber, Fernald, and Diop (2017)
    (WILEY, 2018) Morelli, Gilda; Bard, Kim; Chaudhary, Nandita; Gottlieb, Alma; Keller, Heidi; Murray García, Marjorie Neva; Quinn, Naomi; Rosabal Coto, Mariano; Scheidecker, Gabriel; Takada, Akira; Vicedo, Marga
    This article examines the parent intervention program evaluated by Weber et al. (2017) and argues that there are scientific and ethical problems with such intervention efforts in applied developmental science. Scientifically, these programs rely on data from a small and narrow sample of the world's population; assume the existence of fixed developmental pathways; and pit scientific knowledge against indigenous knowledge. The authors question the critical role of talk as solely providing the rich cognitive stimulation important to school success, and the critical role of primary caregivers as teachers of children's verbal competency. Ethically, these programs do not sufficiently explore how an intervention in one aspect of child care will affect the community's culturally organized patterns of child care.
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    Ethical challenges of parenting interventions in low- to middle-income countries
    (2018) Morelli, Gilda; Quinn, Naomi; Chaudhary, Nandita; Vicedo, Marga; Rosabal Coto, Mariano; Keller, Heidi; Murray García, Marjorie Neva; Gottlieb, Alma; Scheidecker, Gabriel; Takada, Akira
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    How Young Adolescents Draw Themselves: A Comparison Across Three Ecosocial Contexts in Southern Madagascar
    (2019) Scheidecker, Gabriel; Gernhardt, Ariane; Ruebeling, Hartmut; Holtmannspotter, Jona; Keller, Heidi
    The present study investigated the impact of young adolescents' learning environment on their culturally mediated view of themselves as expressed in their self-drawings. The sample consisted of 83 young adolescents, 35 male and 48 female, aged 10 to 14 years with an overall average of 12 years living in three diverse ecosocial contexts within the Southern region of Madagascar: 28 participants were recruited in rural villages, 14 adolescents lived in a small town, and 41 adolescents were raised in a large city. The participants did not differ in age or gender distribution. The analyses revealed significant differences in the adolescents' emotional expressions, drawing styles, visual appearances, and figure sizes in their self-depictions, which were in line with ecosocial variations in their learning environments. The findings are interpreted in light of the participants' varying socialization experiences, access to formal education, and exposure to modern media and a Western lifestyle.
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    Parenting Culture(s): Ideal-Parent Beliefs Across 37 Countries
    (2023) Lin, Gao-Xian; Mikolajczak, Moira; Keller, Heidi; Akgun, Ege; Arikan, Gizem; Aunola, Kaisa; Barham, Elizabeth; Besson, Eliane; Blanchard, M. Annelise; Boujut, Emilie; Brianda, Maria Elena; Brytek-Matera, Anna; Cesar, Filipa; Chen, Bin-Bin; Dorard, Geraldine; dos Santos Elias, Luciana Carla; Dunsmuir, Sandra; Egorova, Natalia; Escobar, Maria Josefina; Favez, Nicolas; Fontaine, Anne Marie; Foran, Heather; Furutani, Kaichiro; Gannage, Myrna; Gaspar, Maria; Godbout, Lucie; Goldenberg, Amit; Gross, James J.; Gurza, Maria Ancuta; Hatta, Ogma; Heeren, Alexandre; Helmy, Mai; Mai-Trang Huynh; Kaneza, Emerence; Kawamoto, Taishi; Kellou, Nassima; Kpassagou, Bassantea Lodegaena; Lazarevic, Ljiljana; Le Vigouroux, Sarah; Lebert-Charron, Astrid; Leme, Vanessa; MacCann, Carolyn; Manrique-Millones, Denisse; Medjahdi, Oussama; Millones Rivalles, Rosa Bertha; Miranda Orrego, Maria Isabel; Miscioscia, Marina; Mousavi, Seyyedeh Fatemeh; Moutassem-Mimouni, Badra; Murphy, Hugh; Ndayizigiye, Alexis; Ngnombouowo, Tenkue Josue; Olderbak, Sally; Ornawka, Sophie; Cadiz, Daniela Oyarce; Perez-Diaz, Pablo A.; Petrides, Konstantinos; Prikhidko, Alena; Salinas-Quiroz, Fernando; Santelices, Maria-Pia; Schrooyen, Charlotte; Silva, Paola; Simonelli, Alessandra; Sorkkila, Matilda; Stanculescu, Elena; Starchenkova, Elena; Szczygiel, Dorota; Tapia, Javier; Tremblay, Melissa; Thi Minh Thuy Tri; Ustundag-Budak, A. Meltem; Valdes Pacheco, Maday; van Bakel, Hedwig; Verhofstadt, Lesley; Wendland, Jaqueline; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Roskam, Isabelle
    What is it to be "an ideal parent"? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., countries with shared ideal-parent beliefs) and then extract the predominant themes and concepts in each culture zone. The results yielded specific types of ideal-parent beliefs in five parenting culture zones: being "responsible and children/family-focused" for Asian parents, being "responsible and proper demeanor-focused" for African parents, and being "loving and responsible" for Hispanic-Italian parents. Although the most important themes and concepts were the same in the final two zones-being "loving and patient," there were subtle differences: English-speaking, European Union, and Russian parents emphasized "being caring," while French-speaking parents valued "listening" or being "present." Ideal-parent beliefs also differed by education levels within culture zones, but no general pattern was discerned across culture zones. These findings suggest that the country in which parents were born cannot fully explain their differences in ideal-parent beliefs and that differences arising from social class or education level cannot be dismissed. Future research should consider how these differences affect the validity of the measurements in question and how they can be incorporated into parenting intervention research within and across cultures.
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    The Myth of Universal Sensitive Responsiveness: Comment on Mesman et al. (2017)
    (2018) Keller, Heidi; Bard, Kim; Morelli, Gilda A.; Chaudhary, Nandita; Vicedo, Marga; Rosabal Coto, Mariano; Scheidecker, Gabriel; Murray García, Marjorie Neva; Gottlieb, Alma
    This article considers claims of Mesman et al. (2017) that sensitive responsiveness as defined by Ainsworth, while not uniformly expressed across cultural contexts, is universal. Evidence presented demonstrates that none of the components of sensitive responsiveness (i.e., which partner takes the lead, whose point of view is primary, and the turn-taking structure of interactions) or warmth are universal. Mesman and colleagues’ proposal that sensitive responsiveness is “providing for infant needs” is critiqued. Constructs concerning caregiver quality must be embedded within a nexus of cultural logic, including caregiving practices, based on ecologically valid childrearing values and beliefs. Sensitive responsiveness, as defined by Mesman and attachment theorists, is not universal. Attachment theory and cultural or cross-cultural psychology are not built on common ground.