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Article: Studies from University of Amsterdam add new findings in the area of cross-cultural psychology.(Report)
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- Psychology & Psychiatry Journal
- Article date:
- October 3, 2009
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"Child care centers in Western countries are becoming increasingly culturally diverse, regarding both professional caregivers, children, and their parents. Child-rearing beliefs, which differ between cultures, are found to affect process quality and children's developmental outcomes," researchers in Netherlands report.
"The first aim of this study is to investigate cultural differences in caregivers' cultural child-rearing beliefs through a semistructured interview. The second aim is to explore the relation between the centers' cultural context and caregivers' beliefs. are 61 caregivers (20 Dutch, 20 Caribbean Dutch, and 21 Mediterranean Dutch) working in Dutch ...