We focus our review on three universal tasks of human development: relationship formation,
knowledge acquisition, and the balance between autonomy and relatedness at …

In this article, we review research that has examined the association between race, ethnicity,
culture, and student motivation. We begin by describing potential problems regarding how …

This study was designed to examine the attitudes toward family obligations among over 800
American tenth (M age= 15.7 years) and twelfth (M age= 17.7 years) grade students from …

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking
and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development …

The critical role of significant others in status attainment continues to be interpreted mainly in
functionalist terms. This article presents an alternative interpretation based on social …

The goal of this study was to determine the relative impact of family background, parental
attitudes, peer support, and adolescents' won attitudes and behaviors on the academic …

Bhatia and Ram ask us to reconsider some assumptions within the field of crosscultural
psychology about how acculturation is experienced by immigrants living in the United …

The objective of this review is to examine research on home-based and school-based
parental involvement and generate new research questions by employing Bronfenbrenner's …

She sports a nose-ring and duppata (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the
latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the …

This chapter discusses how to conceptualize and measure the socioeconomic resources of
immigrant families, in terms of how people may shape parenting and children's …