Culture and Adolescent Development

Evaluation of the Relationship Between Health Literacy and High-risk Behaviors Due to the Mediating Deficit of Positive Adolescent Development Among Adolescent in West Azerbaijan Province

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between health literacy and high-risk behaviors with respect to the mediating role of positive adolescent development among students in West Azerbaijan province. Methodology: The research method was descriptive-correlational modeling of structural equations. The statistical population of this study was all high school girls and ...

Culture and conceptions of adulthood.

Cultural change and human development.

Crosscultural studies of cognitive development preceded studies of cultural leaming. The former studies made an implicit assumption that culture is external whereas development is internal. Bruner’s cultural psychology (1990) and Tomasello, Kruger, and Ratner’s cultural learning (1993) assume, by contrast, that culture is inside the individual, that human beings are intrinsically social and pri...

Development and validation of a moral intelligence questionnaire for Adolescent children of veterans

Cross-cultural conflict and harmony in the social construction of the child.

Adults in a culture symbolically construct an ideal child, and this ideal child is shaped by the culture’s goals for child development. However, the nature of this ideal varies from culture to culture (Harkness and Super, 1996). Ethnic diversity therefore implies varymg definitions of the ideal child. Many American schools are currently populated by children coming from immigrant families. Inso...