Childhood context explains cultural variance in implicit parenting motivation: Results from two studies with six samples from Cameroon, Costa Rica, Germany, and PR China

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue SPECIALISSUE.2, 2014, Pages 295-317

  Chasiotis, Athanasios ^a   Bender, Michael ^a   Hofer, Jan ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Childhood context; Evolutionary developmental psychology; Implicit motives; Number of siblings; Parental SES

Indexed keywords

CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COSTA RICA; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIBLING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAMEROON; CHINA; COSTA RICA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PARENTING; PARENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902331874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470491401200203     Document Type: Article

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