Xinyin Chen

Barry H. Schneider

Doran C. French

This book responds to the absence of a comprehensive consideration of the implications of culture for children's peer relationships. Although research in this field has burgeoned in recent years, cultural issues have often been overlooked. The chapters tap such issues as the impact of social circumstances and cultural values on peer relationships, culturally prescribed socialization patterns and processes, emotional experience and regulation in peer interactions, children's social behaviors in peer interactions, cultural aspects of friendships, and peer influences on social and school adjustment in cultural context. The authors incorporate into their discussions findings from research programs using multiple methodologies, including both qualitative (e.g., interviewing, ethnographic and observational) and quantitative (e.g., large scale surveys, standardized questionnaires) approaches, based on a wide range of ages of children in cultures from East to West and from South to North (Asia, South America, the Mid-East, Southern Europe, and ethnic groups in the US).

Peer Relationships in Cultural Context

Peter F. Titzmann

Verona Christmas-Best

Karina Weichold

Today’s youth is confronted not only with thedevelopmental tasks of adolescence, but also with substantialsocial and economic changes on the macro level originating fromglobalization and economic volatility. Presenting research on theimplications of social and economic changes for today’syouth, this volume covers important topics: Adolescents’ future perspectives The competencies they need to prosper in specific cultures Changes related to family and school Gender differences in economic roles within changingsocieties The effects of technological progress on their lives The way in which they cope with biographical transitions inflexible markets Issues of health and resilience. The articles provide valuable suggestions about what is beingdone and can be done with regard to individuals or particulargroups of youth, especially concerning the application of researchfindings to interventions. This is the 135th volume of New Directions for YouthDevelopment, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated tobringing together everyone concerned with helping young people,including scholars, practitioners, and people from differentdisciplines and professions.

New Directions for Youth Development, Number 135

Youth Success and Adaptation in Times of Globalization and Economic Change

Gisela Trommsdorff

This volume presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the role of cultural values and religious beliefs in adolescent development.

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