Toddlers, Parents and Culture

Maria A. Gartstein is a professor in the Washington State University (WSU) Department of Psychology and Director of ADVANCE at WSU. Dr. Gartstein has been studying temperament and cross-cultural differences for the past 20 years. The cross-cultural emphasis in part reflects her own experience as an immigrant, arriving in the US with her family as a child. Samuel P. Putnam is professor and chair of the Psychology Department at Bowdoin College, and Co-Chair of Undergraduate Research for the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). His research concerns the measurement and structure of temperament, and how nature interacts with nurture to shape individual differences in children.

• Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium (JETTC) Maria A. Gartstein, Samuel P. Putnam, Helena Slobodskaya, & Carolina de Weerth.…………………………………………………Chapter 2. JETTC Methodology Samuel P. Putnam, Maria Gartstein, Sara Casalin, Carmen González-Salinas, Blanca Huitron, Sae-Young Han, Mirjana Majdandžić, Rosario Montirosso, Oana Benga, Ibrahim Acar, Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares, Katri Räikkönen, Zhengyan Wang, Felipe Lecannelier, Roseriet Beijers, & Elena Kozlova………………………………………………………………Part 1: Temperament and Emerging Symptoms/Behavior Problems…….…Chapter 3. Cross-Cultural Differences in the Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire (ECBQ) Factors Helena Slobodskaya, Elena Kozlova, Sae-Young Han, Maria A. Gartstein, & Samuel P. Putnam……………………………………………………….. Chapter 4. Cross-Cultural Differences in the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) Broadband Scales Samuel P. Putnam, Sara Casalin, Blanca Huitron, Mirjana Majdandžić, & Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares…………………………………Chapter 5. Cross Cultural Differences in Associations between Temperament and Behavior Problems Carmen Gonzalez-Salinas, Noelia Sánchez-Pérez, Luis J. Fuentes, Rosario Montirosso, & Kati Heinonen………………………….………. Part 2: Developmental Niche: Socialization Goals (SG), Parental Ethnotheories (PE), Daily Activities Questionnaire (DAQ), Parental Responses to Temperament Displays (PRTD)……………………………..Chapter 6. Cross-Cultural Differences in Socialization Goals and Parental EthnotheoriesSamuel P. Putnam, Maria A. Gartstein, Hannah Broos, Sara Casalin, & Felipe Lecannelier……………………………………………………………Chapter 7. Cross-Cultural Differences in DAQ Play and Activities Eric Desmarais, Maria A. Gartstein, Zhengyan Wang, Emine Ahmetoglu, & Roseriet Beijers…………………………………………………………..Chapter 8. Cross-Cultural Differences in DAQ SleepBlanca Huitron, Guadalupe Domínguez-Sandoval, Amanda Prokasky, Carmen González-Salinas, & Sae-Young Han………………………………………………..Chapter 9. Cross-Cultural Differences in DAQ Discipline Sam P. Putnam, Oana Benga, Rosario Montirosso, Mirjana Majdandžić & Sara Casalin……………………………………………………………..Chapter 10 Cross-Cultural-Differences in Parents’ Responses to Child Temperament Sae-Young Han, Seong-Yeon Park, Eun Gyoung Lee, Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares & Helena Slobodskaya……………………………….Chapter 11. Integrating the Developmental Niche: Relations among Socialization Goals, Parental Ethnotheories, Daily Activities, and Parental Responses to Temperament Mirjana Majdandžić, Marlis Cornelia Kirchhoff, Katri Räikkönen, Oana Benga & Emine Ahmetoglu……………………………………………………………….Part 3: The niche and the child: Links between Parental Psychology, Developmental Context, and Child Outcomes…………………………………………Chapter 12. Socialization Goals, Parental Ethotheories, Toddler Temperament and Behavior Problems Rosario Montirosso, Lorenzo Giusti, Niccolò Butti, Zhengyan Wang & Mirjana Majdandžić……………………………………………………..Chapter 13. DAQ Play/Activities, Temperament andBehavior Problems Oana Benga, Georgiana Susa-Erdogan, Roseriet Beijers, Mirjana Majdandžić & Sara Casalin…………………………………………………………… Chapter 14. DAQ Sleep, Temperament and Behavior Problems Amanda Prokasky, Felipe Lecannelier, Noelia Sánchez-Pérez& Maria A. Gartstein…………………………………………………………………………………Chapter 15. DAQ Discipline, Temperament and Behavior Problems Oana Benga, Georgiana Susa-Erdogan, Blanca Huitron, Elena Kozlova & Emine Ahmetoglu…………………………………………………………Chapter 16. Parental Responses, Toddler Temperament and Behavior Problems Ibrahim Acar, Amanda Prokasky, Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares, Felipe Lecannelier & Sam P. Putnam………………………………………………………..Chapter 17. Bringing it All Together: Mediational ModelsMaria Gartstein, Samuel Putnam, Mirjana Majdandžić Soile Tuovinen & Eric Desmarais……………………………………………………………Chapter 18. Summary and Future Directions Samuel P. Putnam, Maria A. Gartstein, Rosario Montirosso,Livio Provenzi & Zhengyan Wang…………………………………………………………..

This outstanding volume is a true tour de force. It tackles some of the most important and fundamental questions about how we develop as unique individuals in early childhood, around the globe and in our varied cultures. Written and edited by the world’s leading scientists of childhood temperament, the book describes in rich detail the rationale and major findings of their unique and methodologically rigorous collaborative study of toddlers in 14 countries spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The reasoning about the findings is guided by and integrated through a conceptual model that generates new knowledge and new hypotheses. It is a must-read for scholars and students of temperament and personality, individual differences, and cultural influences on human development. Kirby Deater-Deckard, PhD, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)