Lene Arnett Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 90006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lene Arnett Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lene Arnett |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9864-9371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ubuntu in Namibia and Kenya
Psychology in Africa often relies on Euro-American theories, despite their limitations in African cultures. Here, a shift to an Afrocentric perspective was made by exploring Ubuntu in two sub-Saharan African countries using a cultural-developmental psychology approach for in-depth emic understanding. Ubuntu (also known as botho , etc.) is a moral ideal that at core means placing a higher importance on the community than on oneself. Most literatur…
The globalization and localization of moral values
This study examines how culture and development jointly shape moral values in northern Thailand. Eighty participants (40 adolescents [ M age = 17.30] and 40 parents, evenly divided across a rural community and a globalized urban city) completed the Ethical Values Assessment (EVA), a questionnaire that examines the extent to which individuals prioritize Ethics of Autonomy, Community, and Divinity. Statistical analyses reveal that these three moral…
Afterlife beliefs among evangelical and mainline protestant children, adolescents, and adults
This cultural–developmental interview study examined afterlife beliefs in relation to religious culture (evangelical and mainline Protestants) and age (children, adolescents, and adults; N = 120). Quantitative results showed that evangelical and mainline Protestants differed on every analysis: beliefs about what happens to us when we die, whether and why people experience different afterlives (e.g., heaven and hell), and the importance and desira…
Moral reasoning among children in India
The study included 144 Indian children in middle childhood and early adolescence of high and low SES. Based on the cultural-developmental approach, the aims were to test hypotheses about use of the three Ethics of Autonomy, Community and Divinity, and to gain qualitative insights into the children’s indigenous moral concepts. Three findings stood out: 1) Older children employed a rich set of indigenous duty concepts, thereby also using the Ethic …
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development: An Interdisciplinary Perspective provides a comprehensive, international, and up-to-date review of research on moral development. It is organized into four sections: Moral Motives, Moral Behaviors, Contexts of Moral Development, and Applications and Policies. Across more than 40 chapters, the handbook provides a broad view of moral motives and behaviors, ontogeny and developmental pathways, and contexts t…
Oxford Handbook of Moral Development
The Psychology of Filial Piety and Moral Decision-Making in Chinese People
Filial piety has served as a guiding principle of Chinese patterns of moral socialization for millennia. However, interpretation of the values and behaviors emphasized by filial beliefs has evolved with sociopolitical demands. In this chapter, the authors first review the foundations of filial piety in Chinese culture and discuss the connection with relational identity and Confucian ethics. Next, the authors focus on the psychology of filial piet…
Human Development
Charting the moral life courses
Drawing from qualitative analyses of interviews, ethnographic data, and a review of interdisciplinary literature, this manuscript puts forth a theory of moral life course narratives among U.S. evangelical and mainline Protestants. This theory delineates the relationship between religious worldviews and conceptions of moral behaviors, and the manner in which these worldviews and attendant moral conceptions change across the life course for communi…
Comparative and Developmental Anthropology
The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture
A comprehensive synopsis of theory and research on human development, with every chapter drawing together findings from cultures around the world
There’s More Between Heaven and Earth”
In a qualitative interview study, 18 Danish emerging adults (ages 18-27) were asked about their religious beliefs and moral views. Most had received little or no formal religious training within their families, but they nevertheless participated in the “confirmation” process in the Danish state Lutheran church at age 14. Regarding their current beliefs, the majority were nonbelievers (agnostic, atheist, or no beliefs), and none expressed a tradit…
Adolescent–Parent Relations in Asian Indian and Salvadoran Immigrant Families
From a cultural perspective, this study addressed the two developmental theories that adolescents want more autonomy and fewer parental rules than parents consider appropriate, and that discrepancy between adolescents and parents on views of autonomy and authority result in decreased cohesion and increased conflict. The study included 100 adolescent–parent dyads who were immigrants to the United States from El Salvador and India. While findings p…
Adolescent Development in a Diverse and Changing World
Cultural and contextual perspectives provide an understanding of universal and unique patterns of adolescent development. The articles in this special section show how this is vital for theory and research in today's diverse and changing world, and for interventions with adolescents within and across countries. The articles by D iers, Kagitcibasi, and W ay, based on their addresses at the 2012 M eeting of the S ociety for R esearch on A dolescenc…
Selves, societies, and social sciences
This essay reviews two books addressing the nature of the self, and relationships between self and others in the context of modernity and globalization. While each book has many merits of its own, they provide for a particularly interesting and thought-provoking joint reading. I see them as opening up a broader debate about pluralism of self and philosophy of the social sciences. Rather than a self in the singular characteristic of Adams’ post-Fr…
Bridging theory
In this chapter, I argue that Dialogical Self Theory (DST) represents a compelling answer to how to conceptualize the psychology of the self in today's world, when people increasingly are aware of more than one way to think, feel, and relate to others. DST envisions a self of plural voices. The chapters in this volume show intriguing applications of the theory, ranging from microlevel infant-caregiver interactions to macrolevel repercussions of g…
Going Global
This article reviews theory and research on the implications of globalization for cultural identity formation in adolescence (ages 10-18) and emerging adulthood (ages 18-29). Theories of immigrant acculturation are extended to globalization to demonstrate how adolescent and emerging adult cultural identity development follows a variety of pathways in a global world. The article includes a discussion of how this opening up of plural developmental …
Globalization and Cultural Identity
Navigating Local and Global Worlds
Contents, Vol. 40, 1997
Different Worldviews, Different Morals
In this article, it is argued that moral reasoning is premised upon more comprehensive worldviews, and it is suggested that moral behaviors in part serve to maintain these worldviews. A worldview is defined as providing an account of what it means to be human, the nature of reality, and the reasons and remedies for human suffering. Interviews with adults whose moral evaluations and reasoning place them on opposite sides of the current American cu…
Conceptions of God and the Devil Across the Lifespan
Utilizing a cultural-developmental approach, this interview study examined how children, adolescents, and adults from religiously liberal and conservative groups conceptualize God and the Devil. Participants (N= 120) conceptualized God and the Devil along similar dimensions, including number (e.g., one, many), gender, central attributes (e.g., physical, supernatural), and evaluation (e.g., positive, neutral). Within-subject differentiations of Go…
Through two lenses
Immigrant Civic Engagement
The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Mark Hugo Lopez and Karlo Barrios Marcelo on the differences in the rates of civic engagement between first generation immigrants and native-born young people and another by Jane Junn and Natalie Masuoka on the links between politics and positive identifications with being Asian or Latino
Immigrants' Cultural Identities as Sources of Civic Engagement
Immigrant parents (first generation) and adolescents (second generation) from El Salvador and India (N = 80) took part in interviews on civic engagement. The immigrants were almost unanimous in regarding civic engagement as important. They also were engaged themselves, more so at the community than the political level. One third of immigrants were engaged in community activities that specifically had a cultural focus or occurred through cultural …
A Congregation of One
Religious beliefs and practices were examined among 140 emerging adults aged 21 to 28, using quantitative and qualitative methods. There was great diversity in the importance they ascribed to religion, in their attendance at religious services, and in the content of their religious beliefs. Overall, their beliefs fell into four roughly even categories—agnostic/atheist, deist, liberal Christian, and conservative Christian—but there was also consid…
Going Global
This article reviews theory and research on the implications of globalization for cultural identity formation in adolescence (ages 10-18) and emerging adulthood (ages 18-29). Theories of immigrant acculturation are extended to globalization to demonstrate how adolescent and emerging adult cultural identity development follows a variety of pathways in a global world. The article includes a discussion of how this opening up of plural developmental …
Habits of the heart revisited
Moral Divisions within Countries between Orthodoxy and Progressivism
Lene Arnett Jensen, Moral Divisions within Countries between Orthodoxy and Progressivism: India and the United States, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 90-107
The Right to Do Wrong
The (Un)Acceptability of Violence against Peers and Dates
Although violence has become an increasing concern, the motivations and justifications for such egregious behavior remain poorly understood. Two hundred and sixty-one college students completed questionnaires concerning acceptance of and participation in two kinds of violence—violence against peers and dating violence. Results indicate that although violence may be commonplace, it is still deemed unacceptable, especially when the violence is moti…
Different habits, different hearts
The (Un)Acceptability of Betrayal
Socialization and Risk Behavior in Two Countries
Rates of risk behavior are discussed in terms of the differences and similarities in the socialization environments of Denmark and the United States. Adolescents aged 17-18 in middle-class communities in the two countries were compared on various aspects of socialization and risk behavior. Overall, socialization was narrower among the Danish adolescents, in the sense that they had more household obligations, greater community stability, and more …
Charting the moral life courses
Drawing from qualitative analyses of interviews, ethnographic data, and a review of interdisciplinary literature, this manuscript puts forth a theory of moral life course narratives among U.S. evangelical and mainline Protestants. This theory delineates the relationship between religious worldviews and conceptions of moral behaviors, and the manner in which these worldviews and attendant moral conceptions change across the life course for communi…
There’s More Between Heaven and Earth”
In a qualitative interview study, 18 Danish emerging adults (ages 18-27) were asked about their religious beliefs and moral views. Most had received little or no formal religious training within their families, but they nevertheless participated in the “confirmation” process in the Danish state Lutheran church at age 14. Regarding their current beliefs, the majority were nonbelievers (agnostic, atheist, or no beliefs), and none expressed a tradit…
Research
This is a cultural—developmental study of conceptions of family. It compared religiously liberal and conservative lay believers in young, midlife, and older adulthood on their conceptions of diverse aspects of family life, including spousal roles, the balance between family and work, and child—rearing approaches (N = 120). Results showed a marked division between liberal and conservative believers, whichwas particularly strong in midlife. Also, y…
Adolescent–Parent Relations in Asian Indian and Salvadoran Immigrant Families
From a cultural perspective, this study addressed the two developmental theories that adolescents want more autonomy and fewer parental rules than parents consider appropriate, and that discrepancy between adolescents and parents on views of autonomy and authority result in decreased cohesion and increased conflict. The study included 100 adolescent–parent dyads who were immigrants to the United States from El Salvador and India. While findings p…
Socialization and Risk Behavior in Two Countries
Rates of risk behavior are discussed in terms of the differences and similarities in the socialization environments of Denmark and the United States. Adolescents aged 17-18 in middle-class communities in the two countries were compared on various aspects of socialization and risk behavior. Overall, socialization was narrower among the Danish adolescents, in the sense that they had more household obligations, greater community stability, and more …
The Culture Wars and Psychology
Who sleeps by whom revisited
The practice of determining who sleeps by whom in a family household is a symbolic action that simultaneously expresses and realizes some of the deepest moral ideals of a cultural community
Habits of the heart revisited
Different habits, different hearts
Moral Divisions within Countries between Orthodoxy and Progressivism
Lene Arnett Jensen, Moral Divisions within Countries between Orthodoxy and Progressivism: India and the United States, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 90-107
The (Un)Acceptability of Violence against Peers and Dates
Although violence has become an increasing concern, the motivations and justifications for such egregious behavior remain poorly understood. Two hundred and sixty-one college students completed questionnaires concerning acceptance of and participation in two kinds of violence—violence against peers and dating violence. Results indicate that although violence may be commonplace, it is still deemed unacceptable, especially when the violence is moti…
The (Un)Acceptability of Betrayal
It's Wrong, But Everybody Does It
A Congregation of One
Religious beliefs and practices were examined among 140 emerging adults aged 21 to 28, using quantitative and qualitative methods. There was great diversity in the importance they ascribed to religion, in their attendance at religious services, and in the content of their religious beliefs. Overall, their beliefs fell into four roughly even categories—agnostic/atheist, deist, liberal Christian, and conservative Christian—but there was also consid…
Coming of Age in a Multicultural World
The aim of this article is to explore implications of globalization for adolescent cultural identity formation. The thesis is that adolescents increasingly form multicultural identities because they grow up knowing diverse cultural beliefs and behaviors. First, ways that adolescents increasingly have exposure to different cultures are illustrated with ethnographic and cross-cultural work. Then, 3 emerging research issues are raised: (a) the exten…
The Right to Do Wrong
Developmental horizons
This volume brings together leading scholars to describe important new directions in research on child and adolescent development. This introductory chapter places their articles in the context of three larger trends in the field
A message from the new editors-in-chief
Research
This is a cultural—developmental study of conceptions of family. It compared religiously liberal and conservative lay believers in young, midlife, and older adulthood on their conceptions of diverse aspects of family life, including spousal roles, the balance between family and work, and child—rearing approaches (N = 120). Results showed a marked division between liberal and conservative believers, whichwas particularly strong in midlife. Also, y…
Through two lenses
Immigrant Civic Engagement
The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Mark Hugo Lopez and Karlo Barrios Marcelo on the differences in the rates of civic engagement between first generation immigrants and native-born young people and another by Jane Junn and Natalie Masuoka on the links between politics and positive identifications with being Asian or Latino
Immigrants' Cultural Identities as Sources of Civic Engagement
Immigrant parents (first generation) and adolescents (second generation) from El Salvador and India (N = 80) took part in interviews on civic engagement. The immigrants were almost unanimous in regarding civic engagement as important. They also were engaged themselves, more so at the community than the political level. One third of immigrants were engaged in community activities that specifically had a cultural focus or occurred through cultural …
Conceptions of God and the Devil Across the Lifespan
Utilizing a cultural-developmental approach, this interview study examined how children, adolescents, and adults from religiously liberal and conservative groups conceptualize God and the Devil. Participants (N= 120) conceptualized God and the Devil along similar dimensions, including number (e.g., one, many), gender, central attributes (e.g., physical, supernatural), and evaluation (e.g., positive, neutral). Within-subject differentiations of Go…
Contents, Vol. 40, 1997
Different Worldviews, Different Morals
In this article, it is argued that moral reasoning is premised upon more comprehensive worldviews, and it is suggested that moral behaviors in part serve to maintain these worldviews. A worldview is defined as providing an account of what it means to be human, the nature of reality, and the reasons and remedies for human suffering. Interviews with adults whose moral evaluations and reasoning place them on opposite sides of the current American cu…
Globalization and Cultural Identity
Navigating Local and Global Worlds
Selves, societies, and social sciences
This essay reviews two books addressing the nature of the self, and relationships between self and others in the context of modernity and globalization. While each book has many merits of its own, they provide for a particularly interesting and thought-provoking joint reading. I see them as opening up a broader debate about pluralism of self and philosophy of the social sciences. Rather than a self in the singular characteristic of Adams’ post-Fr…
Bridging theory
In this chapter, I argue that Dialogical Self Theory (DST) represents a compelling answer to how to conceptualize the psychology of the self in today's world, when people increasingly are aware of more than one way to think, feel, and relate to others. DST envisions a self of plural voices. The chapters in this volume show intriguing applications of the theory, ranging from microlevel infant-caregiver interactions to macrolevel repercussions of g…
Psychology (29 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (10 works)