Charles M Super
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 132508 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charles M Super |
| NOMBRES | Charles M |
| APELLIDO | Super |
| FIRMA | SUPER C M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3300-2067 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 126 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Children’s sleep in seven Western communities
Universal developmental processes offer a window on the role of culture. The present study analyzes differences in the amount and timing of sleep behavior for 419 children from 6 months to 7-8 years of age, as well as aspects of the developmental niches that promote or discourage specific sleep patterns. Samples were recruited in seven different cultural groups of European origin, in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and t…
Psychological needs and well-being through the eyes of vocational students in Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
Well-being has been thoroughly studied worldwide mostly using questionnaires. Still, it is unclear what well-being means in specific contexts, as studies found that both well-being and underlying psychological needs may vary across cultures. In Aruba, concerns were raised regarding youth well-being. Therefore, this project used a mixed-method approach to explore the development of young people's well-being in Aruba. By taking a culture and human …
The developmental context of culture
Although the path of Kagan's career led him inexorably toward biology, in the few years between his first benchmark publication on infancy and his later focus on temperament, he turned to other cultures in order to evaluate emerging insights about early development, namely, that major developmental transitions in behavior are maturational products. These forays contributed profoundly to our current understanding of culture and human development a…
Why understanding culture is essential for supporting children and families
Understanding culture is essential for understanding child development, and thus for designing and evaluating interventions to improve children’s physical and mental health. We outline seven key aspects of culture, and then review the Developmental Niche, a theoretical framework created to highlight the dynamics of cultural influence on development and to guide assessment of the child’s cultural surround. Within this framework, Parental Ethnotheo…
Cross‐Cultural Research on Parents
The seven papers in this issue address a variety of challenges that parents in several different cultural places encounter as they do their best to ensure their children's safe, happy, and successful development from infancy through middle childhood: infant sleep, developmental agendas, temperament, preschools, academic success, and learning to be a parent in a new cultural environment. The authors use a varied of methods - qualitative and quanti…
Culture and the perceived organization of newborn behavior
The behavior of newborns is ambiguous. Cultural models-representations shared by members of a community-provide new parents and others with a cognitive and motivational structure to understand them. This study asks members of several cultural groups (total n = 100) to judge the "similarity" of behavioral items in the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Data were obtained from NBAS experts, mothers, and undergraduates in Massachusetts, an…
Parents’ Concepts of the Successful School Child in Seven Western Cultures
Although children's school success is a parental goal in most cultures, there is wide cultural variation in the qualities that parents most wish their children to develop for that purpose. A questionnaire contained forty-one child qualities was administered to 757 parents in seven cultural communities in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted separately within eac…
Research on parental burnout across cultures
In this commentary we first examine psychometric issues in the ambitious enterprise of cross-cultural application of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). The present reports span a wide range of cultural places. Overall, the PBA presents good face validity and a strong replication of factor structure; future multi-group confirmatory factor analysis will enable quantitative comparisons not currently possible. Content validity is not fully addres…
Grandmothers’ Developmental Expectations for Early Childhood in Botswana
Urban and rural grandmothers (n = 20) in Botswana participated in focus groups to learn their expectations for the acquisition of skills by preschool children. Their expectations for self-care, traditional politeness, and participation in household chores were dramatically earlier than developmental timetables reported for Western middle-class populations. There are some differences, however, in the urban and rural grandmothers' expectations. Rur…
Manifesto for new directions in developmental science
Although developmental science has always been evolving, these times of fast-paced and profound social and scientific changes easily lead to disorienting fragmentation rather than coherent scientific advances. What directions should developmental science pursue to meaningfully address real-world problems that impact human development throughout the lifespan? What conceptual or policy shifts are needed to steer the field in these directions? The p…
Culture and human development
Culture and human development blossomed as a research enterprise in the last quarter of the 20th century; the energy and innovation of that enterprise are less evident now. Where did it go, and where is it going? In this essay, we examine the shifting fields of cross-cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, indigenous psychology, and the surge of research on Individualism/Collectivism. Offering both academic and perso…
Family workers, stress, and the limits of self-care
Parental Ethnotheories in the Context of Immigration
Cross-cultural research is inherently limited by the difficulty of disentangling cultural effects on children’s development from other environmental features that covary with culture. The growing presence of immigrant populations in the United States offers an opportunity to study parents’ cultural belief systems, or “parental ethnotheories,” as they influence children’s settings and activities in the absence of other environmental supports. This…
Culture, Temperament, and the “Difficult Child”
This study explores parental ethnotheories of children's temperament through mothers' responses to McDevitt and Carey's Behavioral Style Questionnaire (1978) for 299 children aged 3 to 8 years and interviews with their parents, in Australia, Italy, t
Teacher or Playmate? Asian Immigrant and Euro-American Parents' Participation in Their Young Children's Daily Activities
Parents often arrange activities for their children either by providing them with opportunities or restricting their participation. The way children spend their time affects their cognitive and social development. This study compares the involvement of Asian immigrant and Euro-American parents in their young children's daily activities, with particular attention to two contrasting roles: teacher and playmate. Parents of children aged 3 to 6 years…
Teachers' ethnotheories of the ‘ideal student’ in five western cultures
This paper explores teachers' ethnotheories of the ‘ideal student’ in five western societies: Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the US. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to derive culture‐specific profiles of the ‘ideal student’ as described by kindergarten and primary school teachers in semi‐structured interviews (sample n's = 12 to 21). Discriminant function analysis shows that teachers' descriptor profiles can be correctly…
Mixed Methods in International Collaborative Research
The power of a mixed-methods approach combining anthropological and psychological theories and methods is demonstrated through the experiences of the International Study of Parents, Children, and Schools, a collaborative project involving teams of researchers from seven Western countries. The developmental niche framework of Super and Harkness proved useful for integrating multiple methods to understand the context of children’s early development…
The Metaphors of Development
Pepper''s [1942] conceptualization of `root metaphors ́ offers developmentalists a scheme for organizing theories of child behavior held by both parents and professionals. In this paper, we identify the root metaphors underlying current perspectives on human develoment, and present evidence for their role in interpretations of child behavior by parents and mental health professionals. Study 1 demonstrates that there are stable individual differen…
Culture Structures the Environment for Development
Culture is usefully conceived for developmentalists as the organization of the developmental environment. This definition makes available to scientific scrutiny the processes by which culture affects the course of development, that is, how it generates the relationships and meanings of variables that are more familiar, individually, to traditional developmental scientists. One framework for parsing the environment is the ''developmental niche'', …
The Ties That Bind
Beatrice Whiting's focus on cultural meanings implicit in everyday routines provided a focus for this study of men and women's social networks in a rural Kipsigis community of western Kenya. Using methods from social network analysis, the authors interviewed men and women of the community about the contexts of their encounters with other same-sex community members. The data were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis in orde…
Individualism and the “Western Mind” reconsidered
Research on Dutch and American parentS' descriptions and interpretations of their children's personality and behavior reveals a systematic pattern of difference that defies the idea of a uniform “Western mind” characterized by individualism
Parents' Cultural Belief Systems
1. Introduction, Harkness and Super I. Theoretical Perspectives 2. Parents' Free Descriptions of Child Characteristics: A Cross-Cultural Search for the Developmental Antecendents of the Big Five, Kohnstamm, Halverson, Havill, and Mervielde 3. Processes of Generalization in Parental Reasoning, Valsiner and Litvinovic 4. The Answer Depends on the Question: A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis of a Parent Belief Behavior Interview Regarding Chil…
Parents' cultural belief systems
This illuminating new volume offers a multifaceted view of parenting cultural belief systems - their origins in culturally constructed parental experience, their expressions in parental practices, and their consequences for children's well-being and growth. Discussing issues with implications beyond the study of parenthood, the book shows how the analysis of child outcomes which relate to parents' cultural belief systems (or parental "ethnotheori…
The developmental niche
Child care and infectious respiratory disease during the first two years of life in a rural Kenyan community
The developmental niche
The Cultural Construction of Child Development
Maternal education and child feeding practices in rural Bangladesh
A longitudinal study of the impact of behavioural change intervention on cleanliness, diarrhoeal morbidity and growth of children in rural Bangladesh
Parental Ethnotheories in the Context of Immigration
Cross-cultural research is inherently limited by the difficulty of disentangling cultural effects on children’s development from other environmental features that covary with culture. The growing presence of immigrant populations in the United States offers an opportunity to study parents’ cultural belief systems, or “parental ethnotheories,” as they influence children’s settings and activities in the absence of other environmental supports. This…
Teachers' ethnotheories of the ‘ideal student’ in five western cultures
This paper explores teachers' ethnotheories of the ‘ideal student’ in five western societies: Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the US. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to derive culture‐specific profiles of the ‘ideal student’ as described by kindergarten and primary school teachers in semi‐structured interviews (sample n's = 12 to 21). Discriminant function analysis shows that teachers' descriptor profiles can be correctly…
Social roles and moral reasoning
The theory posits six culturally universal stages of moral judgment over the life-span: The lower three usually emerge by adolescence, whereas the upper three develop, if at all, during middle to late adolescence or adulthood (Kohlberg & Kramer, 1969).Like Piaget's stages of cognitive development, Kohlberg's stages of moral development have their own internal coherence, and they are arranged in ascending order of complexity; each stage represents…
Mixed Methods in International Collaborative Research
The power of a mixed-methods approach combining anthropological and psychological theories and methods is demonstrated through the experiences of the International Study of Parents, Children, and Schools, a collaborative project involving teams of researchers from seven Western countries. The developmental niche framework of Super and Harkness proved useful for integrating multiple methods to understand the context of children’s early development…
Patterns of Personality in Africa-. A Note from the Field
The Role of Culture in Developmental Disorder
Family workers, stress, and the limits of self-care
The Ties That Bind
Beatrice Whiting's focus on cultural meanings implicit in everyday routines provided a focus for this study of men and women's social networks in a rural Kipsigis community of western Kenya. Using methods from social network analysis, the authors interviewed men and women of the community about the contexts of their encounters with other same-sex community members. The data were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis in orde…
Parents' Cultural Belief Systems
1. Introduction, Harkness and Super I. Theoretical Perspectives 2. Parents' Free Descriptions of Child Characteristics: A Cross-Cultural Search for the Developmental Antecendents of the Big Five, Kohnstamm, Halverson, Havill, and Mervielde 3. Processes of Generalization in Parental Reasoning, Valsiner and Litvinovic 4. The Answer Depends on the Question: A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis of a Parent Belief Behavior Interview Regarding Chil…
Child care and infectious respiratory disease during the first two years of life in a rural Kenyan community
Sex differences in infant care and vulnerability
Patterns of Personality in Africa-. A Note from the Field
Cognitive development
Theories of cognitive development must be broadened to include other patterns of emerging competence and the role of culture in shaping them
Child development theory in anthropological perspective
Anthropology's central contribution to theories of child development is the concept of culture as a context of human development
Sources of further information
Further sources of information are presented in this chapter
Social roles and moral reasoning
The theory posits six culturally universal stages of moral judgment over the life-span: The lower three usually emerge by adolescence, whereas the upper three develop, if at all, during middle to late adolescence or adulthood (Kohlberg & Kramer, 1969).Like Piaget's stages of cognitive development, Kohlberg's stages of moral development have their own internal coherence, and they are arranged in ascending order of complexity; each stage represents…
The Cultural Construction of Child Development
Sex differences in infant care and vulnerability
The Developmental Niche
Anthropological approaches to human development have been oriented primarily to the socialized adult, at the expense of understanding developmental processes. Developmental psychology, in contrast, has traditionally been concerned with a decontextualized, 'universal' child. After a brief historical review, the 'developmental niche' is introduced as a framework for examining the cultural structuring of child development. The developmental niche ha…
The Role of Culture in Developmental Disorder
A longitudinal study of the impact of behavioural change intervention on cleanliness, diarrhoeal morbidity and growth of children in rural Bangladesh
Maternal education and child feeding practices in rural Bangladesh
The developmental niche
Child care and infectious respiratory disease during the first two years of life in a rural Kenyan community
Parents' cultural belief systems
This illuminating new volume offers a multifaceted view of parenting cultural belief systems - their origins in culturally constructed parental experience, their expressions in parental practices, and their consequences for children's well-being and growth. Discussing issues with implications beyond the study of parenthood, the book shows how the analysis of child outcomes which relate to parents' cultural belief systems (or parental "ethnotheori…
Parents' Cultural Belief Systems
1. Introduction, Harkness and Super I. Theoretical Perspectives 2. Parents' Free Descriptions of Child Characteristics: A Cross-Cultural Search for the Developmental Antecendents of the Big Five, Kohnstamm, Halverson, Havill, and Mervielde 3. Processes of Generalization in Parental Reasoning, Valsiner and Litvinovic 4. The Answer Depends on the Question: A Conceptual and Methodological Analysis of a Parent Belief Behavior Interview Regarding Chil…
Individualism and the “Western Mind” reconsidered
Research on Dutch and American parentS' descriptions and interpretations of their children's personality and behavior reveals a systematic pattern of difference that defies the idea of a uniform “Western mind” characterized by individualism
The Ties That Bind
Beatrice Whiting's focus on cultural meanings implicit in everyday routines provided a focus for this study of men and women's social networks in a rural Kipsigis community of western Kenya. Using methods from social network analysis, the authors interviewed men and women of the community about the contexts of their encounters with other same-sex community members. The data were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis in orde…
Culture Structures the Environment for Development
Culture is usefully conceived for developmentalists as the organization of the developmental environment. This definition makes available to scientific scrutiny the processes by which culture affects the course of development, that is, how it generates the relationships and meanings of variables that are more familiar, individually, to traditional developmental scientists. One framework for parsing the environment is the ''developmental niche'', …
The Metaphors of Development
Pepper''s [1942] conceptualization of `root metaphors ́ offers developmentalists a scheme for organizing theories of child behavior held by both parents and professionals. In this paper, we identify the root metaphors underlying current perspectives on human develoment, and present evidence for their role in interpretations of child behavior by parents and mental health professionals. Study 1 demonstrates that there are stable individual differen…
Mixed Methods in International Collaborative Research
The power of a mixed-methods approach combining anthropological and psychological theories and methods is demonstrated through the experiences of the International Study of Parents, Children, and Schools, a collaborative project involving teams of researchers from seven Western countries. The developmental niche framework of Super and Harkness proved useful for integrating multiple methods to understand the context of children’s early development…
Teachers' ethnotheories of the ‘ideal student’ in five western cultures
This paper explores teachers' ethnotheories of the ‘ideal student’ in five western societies: Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the US. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to derive culture‐specific profiles of the ‘ideal student’ as described by kindergarten and primary school teachers in semi‐structured interviews (sample n's = 12 to 21). Discriminant function analysis shows that teachers' descriptor profiles can be correctly…
Culture, Temperament, and the “Difficult Child”
This study explores parental ethnotheories of children's temperament through mothers' responses to McDevitt and Carey's Behavioral Style Questionnaire (1978) for 299 children aged 3 to 8 years and interviews with their parents, in Australia, Italy, t
Teacher or Playmate? Asian Immigrant and Euro-American Parents' Participation in Their Young Children's Daily Activities
Parents often arrange activities for their children either by providing them with opportunities or restricting their participation. The way children spend their time affects their cognitive and social development. This study compares the involvement of Asian immigrant and Euro-American parents in their young children's daily activities, with particular attention to two contrasting roles: teacher and playmate. Parents of children aged 3 to 6 years…
Parental Ethnotheories in the Context of Immigration
Cross-cultural research is inherently limited by the difficulty of disentangling cultural effects on children’s development from other environmental features that covary with culture. The growing presence of immigrant populations in the United States offers an opportunity to study parents’ cultural belief systems, or “parental ethnotheories,” as they influence children’s settings and activities in the absence of other environmental supports. This…
Family workers, stress, and the limits of self-care
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