Marc H Bornstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 84345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc H Bornstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc H |
| FAMILY NAME | Bornstein |
| SIGNATURE | BORNSTEIN M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6810-8427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 243 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1530 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 240 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Risk and protective factors associated with prosocial skills and behavioral difficulties among preschool children: Findings from rural Ghana.
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries
Five issues about three cognitive caregiving practices are addressed in mothers, fathers, and children’s other caregivers in nationally representative samples from 51 low- and middle-income countries with 159,959 36- to 59-month-old children. The five issues include base rates of cognitive caregiving practices of mothers, fathers, and other caregivers of young children; associations of cognitive caregiving practices of the three caregivers with c…
Positive youth development from early adolescence to young adulthood in nine countries: Intercepts, trajectories, and associations with parental warmth and behavioral control
This longitudinal study concerns initial levels, trajectories of growth, and associations of positive youth development (PYD) with parental warmth and behavioral control from early adolescence to young adulthood. Participants included 1338 adolescents (M = 13.25, SD = 1.04, years; 50% girls) from nine countries trichotomized by income level based on World Bank groupings of economies as well as cultural, sociological, and psychological considerati…
A Longitudinal Study of Parental Solicitation, Rule-Setting, and Psychological Control as Predictors of Adolescent Disclosure across More Individualistic and More Collectivistic Countries
Although autonomy-relevant parenting practices (solicitation, rule-setting, and psychological control) have been linked to adolescent disclosure, little is known about how these practices operate across cultural contexts. Existing studies often examined these practices in isolation or relied on cross-sectional designs, limiting understanding of their unique relations over time. This study examined these associations longitudinally across eight co…
Cognitive competences in preterm infants across the first year of life: Assessments of continuity, stability, coherence, prediction, and moderation by infant age and country of origin
Understanding of preterm infant cognitive competences across the first year of life is limited regarding the developmental constructs of continuity, stability, coherence, and predictive validity as well as how they manifest by age and country of origin. This prospective longitudinal study examined and compared mean-level continuity, individual-differences stability, and associations among several cognitive competences as well as their predictive …
Development of the Visual Analysis of Form and Contour
Together, the results provide new conclusions about change and continuity in the visual analysis of form and contour. The results suggest that the visual detection and binding of simple form structure appears to develop between infancy and adulthood. However, the exploration of contours that support the extraction of form contours from backgrounds appears to change little between infancy and adulthood
Effects of Maternal Depression and Sensitivity on Infant Emotion Regulation: The Role of Context
These findings underscore the interplay between maternal clinical depression and sensitivity in affecting infant ER. Maternal sensitivity acts as a crucial buffer against the adverse effects of maternal depression on infant ER. The results also indicate that infant emotion regulation varies in different contexts of low and high arousal. Interventions that target maternal sensitivity could significantly improve emotion regulation in infants of dep…
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture
Primals are beliefs about the world's basic character (e.g., good, safe, enticing, or alive) that are associated with well-being and behavioral patterns. But primals' developmental origins remain mysterious, hampering theoretical understanding and clinical efforts to change primals. The current preregistered study of 905 families from 11 cultural groups adopts bioecological theory to examine (1) variance in primals accounted for by individual, fa…
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study
The present study explored the bidirectional longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and school performance during adolescence in six countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States). A total sample of 884 adolescents (T1: M age = 10.34 years, SD = 0.69) reported their prosocial behavior, while adolescents' mothers ( N = 871) and fathers ( N = 773) reported their children's school performance over…
Physical activity and two‐year change in adolescent well‐being in nine countries
The benefits of physical activity (PA) for well‐being are well known; however, studies examining longitudinal effects across diverse international samples in late adolescence are limited. This study advances prior work by combining a partial longitudinal design with a multinational sample to assess the predictive effect of PA on biennial change in older adolescents' well‐being, while testing for sex differences. The sample included 903 adolescent…
Not Just Father Involvement! Contemporary Perspectives on Fathering and Father-Child Relationships
Parent–adolescent discrepancies in perceptions of parental warmth: Cross‐cultural differences and longitudinal associations with internalizing symptoms
Research suggests that adolescents often perceive parental behaviors-such as expressions of warmth and affection-differently than their parents do. These parent-adolescent discrepancies offer meaningful insight into family functioning during adolescence and adolescent mental health, though existing findings remain mixed. Grounded in interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (IPARTheory), this study investigates longitudinal, bidirectional associa…
Positive risk taking across the world
Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk taking, which can benefit adolescent development. So far, research on positive risk taking has been limited to Western samples. This study examined a self-report scale of positive risk taking with a sample of 962 adolescents (M age = 18.51 years) from nine diverse countries: …
Precursors of young adults' world beliefs across cultures: A machine learning approach
Future Orientation in Adolescents: Development and the Roles of Parenting in Different Income Countries
Future orientation – the ability to envision and plan for the future – is a crucial task during adolescence. However, little is known about how adolescents’ future orientation develops, how it is influenced by parenting dimensions, and how it varies across countries with different income levels and cultural values. This longitudinal study addresses this gap by exploring how parents’ monitoring, family obligations, individualism, collectivism, and…
The interaction among household chaos, parental rejection, and parental control in predicting adolescent executive function
The present study examines the interaction between household chaos, parental control, and parental rejection/acceptance (i.e., warmth) in predicting adolescent executive function (EF) skills in a diverse sample. We tested a three-way interaction to understand the direct and interactive effects of household chaos, parental control, and parental rejection/acceptance on adolescent EF within a short-term longitudinal study design. Participants were 1…
Improving generalizability of developmental research through increased use of homogeneous convenience samples: A Monte Carlo simulation
Due to its heavy reliance on convenience samples (CSs), developmental science has a generalizability problem that clouds its broader applicability and frustrates replicability. The surest solution to this problem is to make better use, where feasible, of probability samples, which afford clear generalizability. Because CSs that are homogeneous on one or more sociodemographic factor may afford a clearer generalizability than heterogeneous CSs, the…
Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries
Primal world beliefs (“primals”) capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger, socioeconomic status, parental warmth, harsh parenting, psychological control, and autonomy granting from ages 8 to 16 years. At age 22 y…
Parents’ learning support and school attitudes in relation to adolescent academic identity and school performance in nine countries
Adolescents' relationships with parents and romantic partners in eight countries
INTRODUCTION: Creating romantic relationships characterized by high-quality, satisfaction, few conflicts, and reasoning strategies to handle conflicts is an important developmental task for adolescents connected to the relational models they receive from their parents. This study examines how parent-adolescent conflicts, attachment, positive parenting, and communication are related to adolescents' romantic relationship quality, satisfaction, conf…
Cultural values, parenting, and child adjustment in the United States
We examined whether cultural values, conformity and parenting behaviours were related to child adjustment in middle childhood in the United States. White, Black and Latino mothers ( n = 273), fathers ( n = 182) and their children ( n = 272) reported on parental individualism and collectivism, conformity values, parental warmth, monitoring, family obligation expectations, and child internalising and externalising behaviours. Mean differences, biva…
Individualism, collectivism and conformity in nine countries: Relations with parenting and child adjustment
This study investigated how individualism, collectivism and conformity are associated with parenting and child adjustment in 1297 families with 10‐year‐old children from 13 cultural groups in nine countries. With multilevel models disaggregating between‐ and within‐culture effects, we examined between‐ and within‐culture associations between maternal and paternal cultural values, parenting dimensions and children's adjustment. Mothers from cultur…
Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English‐Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners
The valid assessment of vocabulary development in dual‐language‐learning infants is critical to developmental science. We developed the Dual Language Learners English‐Spanish (DLL‐ES) Inventories to measure vocabularies of U.S. English‐Spanish DLLs. The inventories provide translation equivalents for all Spanish and English items on Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) short forms; extended inventories based on CDI long forms; and Spanish la…
Fathering Promotes Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through Specific “Active Ingredient” Caregiving Activities
Infants of mothers with early remitted clinical depression and mothers with no postpartum depression: Adaptive functioning in the second year of life
Whether and how remitted clinical depression in postpartum motherhood contributes to poor infant adaptive functioning is inconclusive. The present longitudinal study examines adaptive functioning in infants of mothers diagnosed as clinically depressed at 5 months but remitted at 15 and 24 months. Fifty‐five U. S. mothers with early, remitted clinical depression and 132 mothers without postpartum depression completed the Vineland Adaptive Behavior…
Measurement invariance conventions and reporting: The state of the art and future directions for psychological research
Contemporary research on parenting: The case for nature and nurture
Current findings on parental influences provide more sophisticated and less deterministic explanations than did earlier theory and research on parenting. Contemporary research approaches include (a) behavior-genetic designs, augmented with direct measures of potential environmental influences; (b) studies distinguishing among children with different genetically influenced predispositions in terms of their responses to different environmental cond…
Cultural Approaches to Parenting
This article first introduces some main ideas behind culture and parenting and next addresses philosophical rationales and methodological considerations central to cultural approaches to parenting, including a brief account of a cross-cultural study of parenting. It then focuses on universals, specifics, and distinctions between form (behavior) and function (meaning) in parenting as embedded in culture. The article concludes by pointing to social…
Remote acculturation: The “Americanization” of Jamaican Islanders
Twenty-first century globalization forces of technology and trade transport cultures across territorial borders. Cultural exchange now occurs in the absence of first-hand continuous contact that accompanies population migration. We propose and test a modern type of acculturation— remote acculturation—associated with indirect and/or intermittent contact between geographically separate groups. Our findings uncover indicators of remote acculturation…
The acquisition of gender labels in infancy: Implications for gender-typed play
Two aspects of children's early gender development-the spontaneous production of gender labels and gender-typed play-were examined longitudinally in a sample of 82 children. Survival analysis, a statistical technique well suited to questions involving developmental transitions, was used to investigate the timing of the onset of children's gender labeling as based on mothers' biweekly telephone interviews regarding their children's language from 9…
Tridimensional Acculturation and Adaptation Among Jamaican Adolescent–Mother Dyads in the United States
A bidimensional acculturation framework cannot account for multiple destination cultures within contemporary settlement societies. A tridimensional model is proposed and tested among Jamaican adolescent-mother dyads in the United States compared to Jamaican Islander, European American, African American, and other Black and non-Black U.S. immigrant dyads (473 dyads, M adolescent age = 14 years). Jamaican immigrants evidence tridimensional accultur…
Parenting Attributions and Attitudes in Cross-Cultural Perspective
SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS Objective. This article used the Parenting Across Cultures Project to evaluate similarities and differences in mean levels and relative agreement between mothers' and fathers' attributions and attitudes in parenting in 9 countries. Design. Mothers and fathers reported their perceptions of causes of successes and failures in caregiving and their progressive versus authoritarian childrearing attitudes. Gender and cultural similari…
Longitudinal associations between parenting and youth adjustment in twelve cultural groups: Cultural normativeness of parenting as a moderator
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were interviewed when children were, on average, 10 years old and again when children were 12 years old. …
Maternal responsiveness to young children at three ages: Longitudinal analysis of a multidimensional, modular, and specific parenting construct
Responsiveness defines the prompt, contingent, and appropriate reactions parents display to their children in the context of everyday exchanges. Maternal responsiveness occupies a theoretically central position in developmental science and possesses meaningful predictive validity over diverse domains of children's development, yet basic psychometric features of maternal responsiveness are still poorly understood. In this prospective longitudinal …
Parenting knowledge: Experiential and sociodemographic factors in European American mothers of young children
Knowledge of child rearing and child development is relevant to parenting and the well-being of children. Using a sociodemographically heterogeneous sample of 268 European American mothers of 2-year-olds, we assessed the state of mothers' parenting knowledge; compared parenting knowledge in groups of mothers who varied in terms of parenthood and social status; and identified principal sources of mothers' parenting knowledge in terms of social fac…
A cross-national study of self-evaluations and attributions in parenting: Argentina, Belgium, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, and the United States
Agreement in Mother and Father Acceptance-Rejection, Warmth, and Hostility/Rejection/ Neglect of Children Across Nine Countries
The authors assessed whether mothers’ and fathers’ self-reports of acceptance-rejection, warmth, and hostility/rejection/neglect (HRN) of their preadolescent children differ cross-nationally and relative to the gender of the parent and child in 10 communities in 9 countries, including China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States ( N = 998 families). Mothers and fathers in all countries reported a…
Maternal personality, parenting cognitions, and parenting practices
A community sample of 262 European American mothers of firstborn 20-month-olds completed a personality inventory and measures of parenting cognitions (knowledge, self-perceptions, and reports about behavior) and was observed in interaction with their children from which measures of parenting practices (language, sensitivity, affection, and play) were independently coded. Factor analyses of the personality inventory replicated extraction of the 5-…
The Influence of Visual Perception on Culture1
Cultural differences in basic color categorization or nomenclature have been variously explained by biological evolution, linguistic relativism, or semantic evolution. This paper reviews these theories and their implied philosophical antecedents. Furthermore, it brings recent ethological, electrophysiological, behavioral, and psychophysical data to bear on this formerly linguistic question. In both behavioral and psychophysical studies, natural c…
Child and mother cardiac vagal tone: Continuity, stability, and concordance across the first 5 years
In this prospective longitudinal study, vagal tone and heart period were measured at 2 months and at 5 years in children and their mothers to evaluate the development of vagal regulation at rest and during an environmental task. Child baseline vagal tone and heart period were discontinuous; mother baseline vagal tone was discontinuous, but heart period was continuous. Group mean baseline-to-task change in vagal tone and heart period were continuo…
Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries
This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross-cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are bidirectionally related to externalizing and internalizing behaviors from childhood to early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8-13. Multipl…
Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries
Distinguishing between relational and physical aggression has become a key feature of many developmental studies in N orth A merica and W estern E urope, but very little information is available on relational and physical aggression in more diverse cultural contexts. This study examined the factor structure of, associations between, and gender differences in relational and physical aggression in C hina, C olombia, I taly, J ordan, K enya, the P h…
Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures
We investigated the effects of parental warmth and behavioral control on externalizing and internalizing symptom trajectories from ages 8 to 14 in 1,298 adolescents from 12 cultural groups. We did not find that single universal trajectories characterized adolescent externalizing and internalizing symptoms across cultures, but instead found significant heterogeneity in starting points and rates of change in both externalizing and internalizing sym…
Functional analysis of the contents of maternal speech to infants of 5 and 13 months in four cultures: Argentina, France, Japan, and the United States
Maternal speech to infants of 2 ages in 4 cultures was examined to probe how infant age and cultural variation influence the contents of that speech. Argentine, French, Japanese, and U.S. American mothers were individually videotaped in naturalistic free-play interactions at home with their 5- and 13-month-old infants, maternal speech was transcribed, and the contents classified as affect salient or information salient
Mother-child emotional availability in ecological perspective: Three countries, two regions, two genders
This study used a cross-national framework to examine country, region, and gender differences in emotional availability (EA), a prominent index of mutual socioemotional adaptation in the parent-child dyad. Altogether 220 Argentine, Italian, and U.S. mothers and their daughters and sons from both rural and metropolitan areas took part in home observations when the children were 20 months old. In terms of country, Italian mothers were more sensitiv…
Sensitive periods in development: Structural characteristics and causal interpretations
The presence or absence of a particular experience at a particular time in the life cycle may exert an extraordinary and dramatic influence over structure or function well beyond that point in development. Such sensitive periods are thought to be widespread in animal and in human neurobiology and psychology. A comprehensive treatment of the sensitive period needs minimally to include information about its structural characteristics as well as an …
The Psychophysiological Component of Cultural Difference in Color Naming and Illusion Susceptibility
Two classical cognitive phenomena-the naming of colors and the susceptibility to visual illusions-are known to vary across cultures. Explanations for these intercultural differences have, in the past, cen tured on theories of cultural learning, evolution, or relativity. A survey of primary color names reported in this paper suggests a regular geo graphic patterning of color naming identities which parallels the dis tribution of eye pigmentation. …
Specificity in mother-toddler language-play relations across the second year
Relations among specific aspects of language (comprehension and production, semantics and utter-ance length) and relations between language and symbolic play were evaluated when children were 13 and 20 months of age. The contributions of maternal stimulation to toddler performance and whether associations among toddler abilities might be explained by maternal behaviors were also examined. Although measures of toddler language covaried, language-p…
Parental acceptance–rejection and child prosocial behavior: Developmental transactions across the transition to adolescence in nine countries, mothers and fathers, and girls and boys
Promoting children's prosocial behavior is a goal for parents, healthcare professionals, and nations. Does positive parenting promote later child prosocial behavior, or do children who are more prosocial elicit more positive parenting later, or both? Relations between parenting and prosocial behavior have to date been studied only in a narrow band of countries, mostly with mothers and not fathers, and child gender has infrequently been explored a…
Color vision and color naming: A psychophysiological hypothesis of cultural difference
Future Shock
Rudolf Arnheim. Visual thinking . Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1971. np
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The Psychophysiological Component of Cultural Difference in Color Naming and Illusion Susceptibility
Two classical cognitive phenomena-the naming of colors and the susceptibility to visual illusions-are known to vary across cultures. Explanations for these intercultural differences have, in the past, cen tured on theories of cultural learning, evolution, or relativity. A survey of primary color names reported in this paper suggests a regular geo graphic patterning of color naming identities which parallels the dis tribution of eye pigmentation. …
Color vision and color naming: A psychophysiological hypothesis of cultural difference
Perceptual generalization: A note on the peak shift
On Light and the Aesthetics of Color: Lumia Kinetic Art
Modern technology has allowed a change in the conception as well as in the use of light in pictorial art. In contrast to traditional modes of static light reflection, the images in the Lumia genre of kinetic art are back-projected onto a translucent screen, change color and may be in motion. The psychophysics underlying the medium and the aesthetics appropriate to it have been studied but little. The author first reviews the physical bases and te…
Visual and Auditory Perception
Kinetic Art: "Theory and Practice: Selections from the Journal "Leonardo
Contemporary Psychology
The Influence of Visual Perception on Culture1
Cultural differences in basic color categorization or nomenclature have been variously explained by biological evolution, linguistic relativism, or semantic evolution. This paper reviews these theories and their implied philosophical antecedents. Furthermore, it brings recent ethological, electrophysiological, behavioral, and psychophysical data to bear on this formerly linguistic question. In both behavioral and psychophysical studies, natural c…
Animals and Their Colors: Camouflage, Warning, Coloration, Courtship and Territorial Display, Mimickry
Infants' recognition memory for hue
Symmetry in Science and Art
Modern Chromatics: Students' Text-Book of Color with Applications to Art and Industry
Mechanics of the Mind
Colour illustrated paper back cover, 208 pages, including index and bibliography, numerous illustrations some in colour. The book records his Reith Lectures given in 1976. The Reith Lectures were established by the BBC in 1947 and are named in honour of Lord Reith, the founder of the BBC
Left and Right in Science and Art
An asymmetric object can exist in two left-right mirror-image forms, enantiomorphs, a phenomenon which has fascinated philosophers, cosmologists and artists. Psychologists and neurophysiologists have been particularly puzzled by the extreme difficulty children and other animals have in learning to distinguish left-right mirror images. The authors propose an explanation of why mirror images are so confusing. In the natural world almost all mirror …
The Miracle of Vision: The Workings and Wonders of the Human Eye
Effects of habituation experience on posthabituation behavior in young infants: Discrimination and generalization among colors
Pictures and imagery both enhance children's short-term and long-term recall
"A Commentary on the Book "Visual Art, Mathematics and Computers: Selections from the Journal Leonardo
1. The sciences and technology have historically coexisted in an uneasy trilateral alliance with the arts. Twenty years ago in The Two Cultures C. P. Snow [1] emphasized dishearteningly that distinctive conceptions of the world separate the sciences and the humanities. Could it be otherwise when products of the sciences and of mathematics are characterized as objective, precise and universal and those of the arts and humanities as
Principles of Visual Perception
Combining psychology, art theory and cross-cultural study, this book explores the ways that our minds construct meaning from visual information. There are chapters on how the mind attributes meaning to things and events, the structure and functioning of the eye and the brain, how we perceive colour, space, depth and distance, motion, the development and mechanics of photography and how the camara effects our perception of reality and the way we t…
Perception of symmetry in infancy
Discrimination and memory for symmetry in young children
Colour-name versus shape-name learning in young children
Very young children perceive colour normally and possess the concept of colour, but it has been widely reported, on the basis of informal observation or normative assessment, that beginning colour naming is confused and that accurate and consistent colour naming is relatively retarded developmentally. A neutral test was devised to compare experimentally 3-year-olds' abilities to make colour-to-name versus shape-to-name associations. Children lear…
Cross-cultural developmental comparisons: The case of Japanese-American infant and mother activities and interactions. What we know, what we need to know, and why we need to know
Psychology (215 works) · Developmental psychology (183 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (101 works) · Social Psychology (80 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (74 works) · Medicine (56 works) · Social Psychology (43 works) · Sociology (43 works) · Computer Science (36 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (35 works)