Mariano Rosabal-Coto

University of Costa Rica | UCR · Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIP)

Abstract: Objective: In the context of the pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2, concerns were raised about how to adequately assess its impact on the wellbeing of the population. The main reason of this paper is to present the preliminary results of psychometric properties of measures created to evaluate such impact. Method: We created and adapted several a...

Context and Parenting Networks in Three Groups of Low Income Women in Costa Rica

Short biography of Mariano Luis Coronado Castro (Costa Rica).

Caregiver-infant interactions in Western middle class often take place in dyadic play settings, engaged in infant-initiated object stimulation, and surrounded by a positive emotional tone, reflecting a distal parenting style. With this study we aim to investigate whether the same conception of caregiver-infant interaction is embodied in the proxima...

According to attachment theory, feeding, including breastfeeding, plays only a marginal role in relationship formation. However, studies—especially in rural traditional non‐Western contexts—repeatedly demonstrate that feeding can be an important attachment mechanism. We interviewed 30 urban, middle‐class families with 6‐to‐19‐month‐old infants in t...

This study examines the cultural concept of grandmothers as caregivers and potential attachment figures for their grandchildren in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Specifically, we examined the influence of the grandmaternal co‐residence with grandchildren on their caregiving involvement and on the dyad's relationship formation. Semi‐structured interviews w...

Attachment studies mostly follow the Western middle-class model in theory and methods. To demonstrate that the assessment of children's caregiving context is an often neglected, but crucial prerequisite for attachment studies, we (a) conducted a literature analysis of attachment research in non-Western contexts and (b) empirically investigated the...

The aim of our study was to explore young children’s social and learning environments in contexts that are different from the predominant Western lifestyle. We expected different cultural groups, both living in Costa Rica, to provide their 6- to 18-months old children with different learning environments. Our sample consisted of 26 Bribri families...

This article examines the parent intervention program evaluated by Weber et al. (2017) and argues that there are scientific and ethical problems with such intervention efforts in applied developmental science. Scientifically, these programs rely on data from a small and narrow sample of the world's population; assume the existence of fixed developm...

This article considers claims of Mesman et al. (2017) that sensitive responsiveness as defined by Ainsworth, while not uniformly expressed across cultural contexts, is universal. Evidence presented demonstrates that none of the components of sensitive responsiveness (i.e., which partner takes the lead, whose point of view is primary , and the turn-...

This article explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these interventions foster “positive parenting practices” to improve children’s chances of fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from a...

This paper examines the parent intervention program evaluated by Weber, Fernald and Diop (2017), and argues that there are scientific and ethical problems with such intervention efforts in applied developmental science. Scientifically, these programs: rely on data from a small and narrow sample of the world’s population; assume the existence of fix...

This paper considers claims of Mesman et al. (2017) that sensitive responsiveness as defined by Ainsworth, while not uniformly expressed across cultural contexts, is universal. Evidence presented demonstrates that none of the components of sensitive responsiveness (i.e., which partner takes the lead, whose point of view is primary, and the turn-tak...

Cross-cultural differences in Social Desirability (SD) could be partly due to the nonequivalence of constructs, items, or other challenges of cross-cultural research. We tested to what extent a Mexican, indigenous scale of SD, capturing both positive and negative features of SD, would be useful in other countries. Data were collected in convenience...

En este artículo se presentan y discuten los hallazgos del estudio “Caracterización del estilo de crianza de los niños y las niñas en cuidado permanente en una Aldea Gubernamental: sistemas de creencias parentales y orientación cultural” (Durán-Delgado, 2012). La especificidad cultural del parentaje, en un contexto de cuidado en una institución de...

This paper discusses the findings of the study “Characterization of Parenting Style among Children in a Permanent- Care State-Run Village: Parental Belief Systems and Cultural Orientation” (Duran-Delgado, 2012). The cultural specificity of parenting, in a context of institutional care in a semi -permanent publicly-run establishment is analyzed from...

Desde hace 10 años, el programa Escuela para Madres y Padres del Instituto de investigaciones Psicológicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, un proyecto de acción social, ha desarrollado una metodología que combina actividades presenciales con una plataforma virtual desde las cuales divulgan el conocimiento psicológico a diversas audiencias no espec...

Desde hace 10 años, el programa Escuela para Madres y Padres del Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas de la Universidad de Costa Rica, un proyecto de acción social, ha desarrollado una metodología que combina actividades presenciales como una plataforma virtual para divulgar el conocimiento psicológico a diversas audiencias no especializadas....

This paper explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these interventions foster “positive parenting practices" to improve children’s chances of fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from att...

Attachment theory has its roots in an ethnocentric complex of ideas, longstanding in the United States, under the rubric of “intensive mothering.” Among these various approaches and programs, attachment theory has had an inordinate and wide-ranging influence on a wide range these four of professions concerned with children: family therapy, educatio...

Attachment theory has its roots in an ethnocentric complex of ideas, longstanding in the United States, under the rubric of "intensive mothering." Among these various approaches and programs, attachment theory has had an inordinate influence on a wide range of professions concerned with children (family therapy, education, the legal system, and pub...

This chapter presents an alternative view to classic attachment theory and research, arguing for systematic, ethnographically informed, approaches to the study of child development. It begins with the observation that the attachments children develop are locally determined, and insists that these features of attachment can only be captured through...

From cultural perspective of developmental psychology, main findings regarding the study of parenting in the Costa Rican context are discussed.

Resumen. En el presente artículo se discute sobre la perspectiva y la experiencia que niños y niñas, tienen ante el conflicto interparental posdivorcio desde un enfoque de Psicología del Desarrollo culturalmente sensible. A partir de la producción del autor, se pasa revista de los principales constructos teóricos que contextúan culturalmente la dis...

In this paper, the perspective and experience that children within post-divorce interparental conflict have, is discussed from a developmental psychology culturally sensitive approach. Cues for understanding developmental paths, consequences on children development are discussed. It begins with a review of the main theoretical constructs that frame...

Este artículo ofrece una sistematización sobre la temática del “parentaje” (crianza). Se describen las principales investigaciones, locales e internacionales, relacionadas con dos temas en la Psicología del desarrollo en el contexto costarricense: las metas y las prácticas del parentaje y los principales resultados que permiten caracterizar los est...

La Psicología del desarrollo humano se interesa por estudiar y comprender los procesos normativos de cambio que acontecen a lo largo del ciclo vital. El artículo desarrolla un análisis de la historia de esta subdisciplina de la Psicología en el contexto costarricense en las últimas dos décadas. El análisis sugiere que las contribuciones a la Psicol...

Psychological research on socialization goals and parent-child interaction began in Costa Rica almost 40 years ago, when the country’s mainstream investigation of these subjects was oriented toward epidemiological studies. Several academic and government institutions, some more systematic than others, have developed incursions into this matter, but...

Objective. This study analyzes culturally formed parenting styles during infancy, as related to the sociocultural orientations of independence and interdependence. Design. Free-play situations between mothers and 3-month-old infants were videotaped in 5 cultural communities that differ according to their sociocultural orientations: cultural communi...

Se presentan los resultados de un estudio exploratorio descriptivo con 40 figuras parentales (20 de ESE medio y 20 de ESE bajo) que tienen bebés de un mes y medio a dos meses y medio de edad, pertenecientes al Gran Área Metropolitana de Costa Rica. A través de entrevistas, cuestionarios autoadministrados y 12 horas de observación naturalista, se de...

En el presente artículo, se revisan ciertos puntos de convergencia entre las líneas investigativas llevadas a cabo por Daniel Stern y Alfred Lorenzer, que se presentan atractivas particularmente al desarrollar cada uno propuestas relevantes para la elucidación de un modelo analítico no sólo sobre la conformación de la subjetividad, del sentido del...

This study analyses the development of psychology in the academic and professional fields. It basis its discussion stressing the three dimensions that have determined the characteristics of Costa Rican psychology: 1. State dimension; 2. idiosincratic dimension; 2 intradisciplinary-professional dimension. From this perspective, historical developmen...