Cigdem Kagitcibasi
Biographic Data
| ID | 115529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cigdem Kagitcibasi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cigdem |
| FAMILY NAME | Kagitcibasi |
| SIGNATURE | KAGITCIBASI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 275 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Supporting positive development in early adolescence: A school-based intervention in Turkey
We present a youth development intervention program and its evaluation. Deriving from the theories of agentic self and positive youth development, we adopted a holistic perspective that focused on social agency with growth mindset and self-efficacy conceptualized as its motivators. The intervention consisted of 14 weekly sessions with 508 sixth graders in four public schools in Turkey (Mage = 11.8, 49% female). A comparable group with 417 sixth g…
S herif, M uzaffer
Muzaffer Sherif is considered to be one of the founders of modern social psychology. He is known especially for his “social judgment” and “realistic conflict” theories and for his autokinetic effect and Robbers' Cave experiments that served as the bases for these theories, respectively. His work on the formation of group norms and on intergroup relations has been fully integrated into the field.
Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures: Theory and Applications
Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. During the past two decades since its publication, cultural and cross-cultural research and theory on the self, family, and human development have expanded greatly, developing fruitfully from the basic issues and paradigms Kağıtçıbaşı explo…
Intercultural engagement and relatedness: Examining mediation effects
Parenting Attitudes and Beliefs across Cultures
Value of Children, Family Change, and Implications for the Care of the Elderly
Values attributed to children provide insights into the place of the child in family and society. The place of the child, in turn, is the key to understanding intergenerational dynamics. In this article, a key construct, “value of children,” and several studies using it are examined from the perspective of a theory of family change. This theoretical perspective and the studies shed light on the links between the values attributed to children/expe…
Adolescent Autonomy‐Relatedness and the Family in Cultural Context: What Is Optimal
This review examines self‐family‐culture links from a cultural and global perspective utilizing Kagitcibasi's Family Change Theory and Self Theory as general frameworks. These theories have the “autonomous‐related self” at their point of intersection. Autonomy and relatedness dynamics is the key to understanding the self, and family is the main developmental niche for the self. Adolescence is an important phase of development where environmental …
The family in question: Immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe
The family in question: immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 32(4), pp. 415–416
Applied acculturation research: Working with, for and beyond communities
Introduction to “Acculturation Theory, Research and Application: Working with and for Communities”
Intergenerational Relationships in the Family: Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Country Variations in Germany, Israel, Palestine, and Turkey
This study examines some aspects of intergenerational relationships in different sociocultural contexts. Using data from Germany, Israel, Palestine, and Turkey from the Value of Children and Intergenerational Relationships Project, mother—adolescent dynamics are studied. Mothers’ expectation of future support from grown-up offspring and the adolescents’ support to the mother are the main dependent variables under consideration. Socioeconomic stan…
The Value of Children for Parents in the Minds of Emerging Adults
The value that children have for parents (i.e., social/traditional, economic/ utilitarian, and psychological—value of children [VOC]) is important in shedding light on parental goals and expectations regarding children, intergenerational relationships and a host of related factors that reflect the place of the child in family and society. VOCs also figure prominently in a theory of family change which informs this study. Young adults’ views regar…
Families Across Cultures: A 30-Nation Psychological Study
Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures: Theory and Applications, Second Edition
Reflecting author gdem Kagit asi's influential work over the last two decades, this new edition examines human development, the self, and the family in a cultural context. It challenges the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. The author proposes a new model the "Autonomous-Related Self" which
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Living and Working in a Changing World (Sage Social Psychology Program)
Value of Children and Family Change: A Three‐Decade Portrait From Turkey
L’étude turque sur la valeur conférée aux enfants a porté sur trois générations relevant de trois niveaux socio‐économiques dans centre métropolitain et deux zones rurales. Les résultats ont montré qu’il y avait sur les trois derrières décennies un net accroissement des valeurs psychologiques attribuées aux enfants et une chute correspondante des valeurs utilitaires et économiques. La préférence pour le fils a été remplacée par la préférence pour…
Functional Adult Literacy and Empowerment of Women: Impact of a Functional Literacy Program in Turkey
This study addresses the impact of functional adult literacy on the empowerment of women in the absence of formal schooling. It examines whether the effects of functional literacy are exclusively content specific or whether there are gains going beyond the obvious benefits and extending to other spheres of everyday functioning, such as self‐concept, family relations, and social participation. The participants of a development intervention program…
Autonomy and Relatedness in Cultural Context: Implications for Self and Family
Autonomy and agency are used extensively and often interchangeably; there is a debate regarding their intersections with relatedness and separateness. This scholarship occurs within mainly a Euro-American cultural context that provides an ideological background of individualism, shedding light on psychological thinking. The article attempts to provide a broad overview of the issues involved. Two distinct dimensions, agency and interpersonal dista…
Autonomy, Embeddedness and Adaptability in Immigration Contexts
Rites of Passage to Adulthood: Adolescence in the Western World
Review Articles| March 28 2002 Rites of Passage to Adulthood: Adolescence in the Western World: Essay Review of Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change edited by Lisa J. Crockett and Rainer Silbereisen Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Çigdem Kagitçibasi Çigdem Kagitçibasi Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (20…
A Model of Family Change in Cultural Context
This reading is about the psychological study of the family with a cross-cultural comparative orientation. It attempts to provide answers to some basic questions regarding the family in context - whether there are systematic global changes in the family, what might be some of the important factors that characterize family and family change, and how they function. A model of family change is proposed to address these questions and to shed light on…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Millennium Prelude Symposium
Familie und Sozialisation in der Türkei
The Autonomous-Relational Self
Autonomy is often construed as separateness from others and is seen to result from a separation-individuation process. However, it is neither logically nor psychologically necessary for autonomy to imply separateness if the existence of the two different dimensions of agency and interpersonal distance are recognized. The two poles of the agency dimension are autonomy and heteronomy; those of the interpersonal distance dimension are separateness a…
Is psychology relevant to global human development issues? Experience from Turkey
Autonomy and Relatedness in Cultural Context: Implications for Self and Family
Autonomy and agency are used extensively and often interchangeably; there is a debate regarding their intersections with relatedness and separateness. This scholarship occurs within mainly a Euro-American cultural context that provides an ideological background of individualism, shedding light on psychological thinking. The article attempts to provide a broad overview of the issues involved. Two distinct dimensions, agency and interpersonal dista…
Social norms and authoritarianism: A Turkish-American comparison
Intergenerational Relationships in the Family: Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Country Variations in Germany, Israel, Palestine, and Turkey
This study examines some aspects of intergenerational relationships in different sociocultural contexts. Using data from Germany, Israel, Palestine, and Turkey from the Value of Children and Intergenerational Relationships Project, mother—adolescent dynamics are studied. Mothers’ expectation of future support from grown-up offspring and the adolescents’ support to the mother are the main dependent variables under consideration. Socioeconomic stan…
Old-Age Security Value of Children: Cross-National Socioeconomic Evidence
Some of the findings of the nine-country "Value of Children Study" pertaining to the perceived value of children in providing old-age security to their parents are presented. To what extent this value is attributed by parents to their children and what benefits are expected from children were assessed in the context of socioeconomic development. Specifically, it was found that with development, the old-age security value of the child decreases, w…
The Changing Value of Children in Turkey
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Value of Children, Family Change, and Implications for the Care of the Elderly
Values attributed to children provide insights into the place of the child in family and society. The place of the child, in turn, is the key to understanding intergenerational dynamics. In this article, a key construct, “value of children,” and several studies using it are examined from the perspective of a theory of family change. This theoretical perspective and the studies shed light on the links between the values attributed to children/expe…
Alienation of the Outsider: The Plight of Migrants
This paper compares the plight of international migrants with those from rural to urban areas, examining specifically the migration of Turks into Europe and into Turkish metropolitan centers. This allows comparison of migrant groups with the same point of origin in terms of national, ethnic, cultural, religious, and social characteristics, as well as the same traditional family culture. Economic factors are the main reasons for immigration into E…
The Value of Children for Parents in the Minds of Emerging Adults
The value that children have for parents (i.e., social/traditional, economic/ utilitarian, and psychological—value of children [VOC]) is important in shedding light on parental goals and expectations regarding children, intergenerational relationships and a host of related factors that reflect the place of the child in family and society. VOCs also figure prominently in a theory of family change which informs this study. Young adults’ views regar…
Applied acculturation research: Working with, for and beyond communities
Introduction to “Acculturation Theory, Research and Application: Working with and for Communities”
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Millennium Prelude Symposium
Old Age Security Value of Children and Development: Cross-National Evidence
This paper presents some of the findings of the nine-country "Value of Children Study" pertaining to the perceived value of children in providing old-age security to their parents. To what extent this value is attributed by parents to their children and what benefits are expected from children are assessed in thecontext of socio-economic development. Specifically, it is found that with development the old-age security value of the child decreases…
Psychological Aspects of Modernization in Turkey
A ttitudinal, aspirational, familial, and social structural variables were assessed among Turkish high school students. Two main personality types emerged. Type 1, the traditional, was characterized by core authoritarianism, anomia, pessimism about personal future, belief in external control of reinforcement, and religious orientation. Type 2, the modern, was characterized by optimism about personal future, belief in internal control of reinforce…
Social norms and authoritarianism: A Turkish-American comparison
Psychological Aspects of Modernization in Turkey
A ttitudinal, aspirational, familial, and social structural variables were assessed among Turkish high school students. Two main personality types emerged. Type 1, the traditional, was characterized by core authoritarianism, anomia, pessimism about personal future, belief in external control of reinforcement, and religious orientation. Type 2, the modern, was characterized by optimism about personal future, belief in internal control of reinforce…
The Changing Value of Children in Turkey
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org
Old Age Security Value of Children and Development: Cross-National Evidence
This paper presents some of the findings of the nine-country "Value of Children Study" pertaining to the perceived value of children in providing old-age security to their parents. To what extent this value is attributed by parents to their children and what benefits are expected from children are assessed in thecontext of socio-economic development. Specifically, it is found that with development the old-age security value of the child decreases…
Old-Age Security Value of Children: Cross-National Socioeconomic Evidence
Some of the findings of the nine-country "Value of Children Study" pertaining to the perceived value of children in providing old-age security to their parents are presented. To what extent this value is attributed by parents to their children and what benefits are expected from children were assessed in the context of socioeconomic development. Specifically, it was found that with development, the old-age security value of the child decreases, w…
The Changing Value of Children in Turkey
Sex Roles, Family, and Community in Turkey
Alienation of the Outsider: The Plight of Migrants
This paper compares the plight of international migrants with those from rural to urban areas, examining specifically the migration of Turks into Europe and into Turkish metropolitan centers. This allows comparison of migrant groups with the same point of origin in terms of national, ethnic, cultural, religious, and social characteristics, as well as the same traditional family culture. Economic factors are the main reasons for immigration into E…
Child Rearing in Turkey and an Intervention Research
This paper has two main parts. The first part is a general portrayal of attitudes toward children and related child rearing behaviours in Turkey. There is a focus here on problems of child development in the context of lower socio-economic development. The second half presents an intervention study conducted in low income urban areas of Istanbul to alleviate some of these problems and to foster the overall development of children. This research i…
Is psychology relevant to global human development issues? Experience from Turkey
Is psychology relevant to global human development issues? Experience from Turkey
The Autonomous-Relational Self
Autonomy is often construed as separateness from others and is seen to result from a separation-individuation process. However, it is neither logically nor psychologically necessary for autonomy to imply separateness if the existence of the two different dimensions of agency and interpersonal distance are recognized. The two poles of the agency dimension are autonomy and heteronomy; those of the interpersonal distance dimension are separateness a…
Familie und Sozialisation in der Türkei
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Millennium Prelude Symposium
Rites of Passage to Adulthood: Adolescence in the Western World
Review Articles| March 28 2002 Rites of Passage to Adulthood: Adolescence in the Western World: Essay Review of Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change edited by Lisa J. Crockett and Rainer Silbereisen Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Çigdem Kagitçibasi Çigdem Kagitçibasi Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (20…
A Model of Family Change in Cultural Context
This reading is about the psychological study of the family with a cross-cultural comparative orientation. It attempts to provide answers to some basic questions regarding the family in context - whether there are systematic global changes in the family, what might be some of the important factors that characterize family and family change, and how they function. A model of family change is proposed to address these questions and to shed light on…
Autonomy, Embeddedness and Adaptability in Immigration Contexts
Value of Children and Family Change: A Three‐Decade Portrait From Turkey
L’étude turque sur la valeur conférée aux enfants a porté sur trois générations relevant de trois niveaux socio‐économiques dans centre métropolitain et deux zones rurales. Les résultats ont montré qu’il y avait sur les trois derrières décennies un net accroissement des valeurs psychologiques attribuées aux enfants et une chute correspondante des valeurs utilitaires et économiques. La préférence pour le fils a été remplacée par la préférence pour…
Functional Adult Literacy and Empowerment of Women: Impact of a Functional Literacy Program in Turkey
This study addresses the impact of functional adult literacy on the empowerment of women in the absence of formal schooling. It examines whether the effects of functional literacy are exclusively content specific or whether there are gains going beyond the obvious benefits and extending to other spheres of everyday functioning, such as self‐concept, family relations, and social participation. The participants of a development intervention program…
Autonomy and Relatedness in Cultural Context: Implications for Self and Family
Autonomy and agency are used extensively and often interchangeably; there is a debate regarding their intersections with relatedness and separateness. This scholarship occurs within mainly a Euro-American cultural context that provides an ideological background of individualism, shedding light on psychological thinking. The article attempts to provide a broad overview of the issues involved. Two distinct dimensions, agency and interpersonal dista…
Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Living and Working in a Changing World (Sage Social Psychology Program)
Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures: Theory and Applications, Second Edition
Reflecting author gdem Kagit asi's influential work over the last two decades, this new edition examines human development, the self, and the family in a cultural context. It challenges the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. The author proposes a new model the "Autonomous-Related Self" which
Families Across Cultures: A 30-Nation Psychological Study
Applied acculturation research: Working with, for and beyond communities
Introduction to “Acculturation Theory, Research and Application: Working with and for Communities”
Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works) · Autonomy (5 works)