Wolfgang Friedlmeier

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• Professor at Grand Valley State University

Socialization goals and practices are shifting and changing in countries like India due to modernization, particularly in urban context. Given the shift, mothers may endorse balanced socialization goals over traditional relational goals and that may influence their emotion regulation behavior with the toddlers. This paper aims to test whether mothe...

Socialization goals and practices are shifting and changing in countries like India due to modernization, particularly in urban context. Given the shift, mothers may endorse balanced socialization goals over traditional relational goals and that may influence their emotion regulation behavior with the toddlers. This paper aims to test whether mothe...

The goal of the present cross-cultural study was to investigate mothers’ pattern of responses in a delay of gratification situation for their toddler and its effect on toddlers’ emotions by using a person-centered approach. We also tested whether this effect was mediated by toddlers’ own regulation strategies. Fifty-one European American, 30 Israel...

Over the recent years, there is growing recognition of the social and cultural regulatory processes that act upon individual emotions. The adult-to-child social regulation of emotion is even more relevant, given the development of child self-regulatory abilities during early years. Although it is acknowledged that parental regulatory attempts to th...

In der kulturvergleichenden entwicklungspsychologischen Forschung über Emotionen steht der Einfluss der Kultur auf Emotionen im Zentrum wissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen. Diese theoretische Perspektive weicht in verschiedener Hinsicht von der allgemeinen Emotionsforschung in der Psychologie ab.

Cultural artifacts such as children’s storybooks may serve to facilitate learning of emotion display norms. We compared emotion displays in European American and Mexican books to infer cultural differences between the mainstream and a heritage culture to ultimately explore acculturation orientation in Hispanic storybooks. Totally, 1,059 images were...

To explain attachment development in adolescence in different contexts we applied the family solidarity model (e.g., Bengtson, 2001) generally used to analyze intergenerational adult children‐elderly parents relations. The model differentiates four family solidarity patterns which were assumed in our study to occur in adolescent–parent relations, t...

This study examined mothers’ responses to foster emotional competence from a cultural perspective. Fifty-one European American, 52 Turkish, and 40 Romanian mothers of 2-year-old children provided open-ended responses to vignettes of anger-, sadness-, fear-, and happiness-eliciting situations. Mothers’ responses were compared between the family mode...

The present study investigated five to six year old children's ability to regulate negative and positive emotions in relation to psychosocial problem behavior (N = 53). It was explored, whether mothers' supportive and nonsupportive strategies of emotion socialization influence children's problem behavior by shaping their emotion regulation ability....

The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective provides an in-depth and comprehensive synopsis of theory and research on human development, with every chapter drawing together findings from cultures around the world. This includes a focus on cultural change, migration, and globalization. The handbook covers t...

This study investigated perceptions of achieved criteria for adulthood (ACA) among emerging adult student samples from Austria (n = 210), Slovenia (n = 201), and the United States (n = 225). Controlling for parental education, students’ age (18-27 years), and gender, we aimed to explain between- and within-sample differences in the ACA by taking th...

Cultural differences of emotions are well documented for adults. In contrast, the developmental pathways for these culture-specific ontogenetic outcomes are less known and studied so far. However, several theoretical frameworks were constructed and tested over the past several years to specifically describe and explain emotional development within...

Children's books may provide an important resource of culturally appropriate emotions. This study investigates emotion displays in children's storybooks for preschoolers from Romania, Turkey, and the US in order to analyze cultural norms of emotions. We derived some hypotheses by referring to cross-cultural studies about emotion and emotion sociali...

The present study aims to investigate the association between maternal perception of toddler emotion regulation abilities, measured with the Emotion Regulation Checklist, and emotion regulation abilities displayed by the child in a delay of gratification task. The participants included 30 Romanian toddlers (M age = 22.89 months) along with their mo...

Mastery of cognitive emotion regulation strategies is an important developmental task. This paper focuses on two strategies that occur from preschool age onwards (Stegge and Meerum Terwogt, 2007): reappraisal and response suppression. Parental socialization of these strategies was investigated in a sample of N = 219 parents and their children. Info...

Das Thema dieses Buches ist Stress und Kultur. Die Stressforschung interessiert sich für Copingstrategien und fokussiert auf Stressoren, d. h. Prozesse, wie Individuen auf Ereignisse reagieren, die sie als herausfordernd oder bedrohlich einschätzen. Compas et al. (2001) definieren Coping als „conscious and volitional efforts to regulate emotion, co...

Copyright - © ASCR Publishing House 2012, All rights reserved., Date revised - 20120820, Number of references - 11, Last updated - 2012-09-10, DOI - PSIN-2012-17693-001; 2012-17693-001; 1224-8398, SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Communism, Alsaker, Francoise D.; Flammer, August. The Adolescent Experience: European and American Adolescents in the 1990...

The main goal of this study was to investigate parent-adolescent value similarities in a Romanian sample by taking the relative importance of mothers' and of fathers' parenting style into account. More abstract values were studied here, namely individualism and collectivism as well as independence and interdependence. Some theoretical approaches ar...

The chapter starts with an overview of the ongoing debate between evolutionary and culture-relativistic approaches and their contributions to describing and explaining cultural similarities and differences in emotions. As a theoretical and methodological completion of existing approaches, the chapter highlights the importance of an integrative deve...

Emotion socialization aims to promote children’s emotion competence. Children’s competence is embedded in cultural contexts that influence caregivers’ expectations of appropriateness of children’s expression and experience of emotions. Two aspects of emotion competence – individualistic and relational emotion competence – are outlined. They offer a...

Copyright - © SAGE Publications and The International Society for Research on Emotion 2010, Date revised - 20100802, Number of references - 5, Last updated - 2012-09-10, DOI - PSIN-2010-14581-025; 2010-14581-025; 1754-0739; 1754-0747, SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Emotional Responses, Brown, Terrance, Kozak, Arnold 1998 Emotion and the possibility...

Cultures differ in their beliefs about emotions and related emotional expressions. Cultures with an interdependent model of self prefer more socially engaged emotions, and cultures with an independent model of self perceive socially disengaged emotions as more important. Such differences in individual emotional expression can be seen as outcomes of...

Copyright - © The Author(s) 2010, Date revised - 20100322, Number of references - 1, Last updated - 2012-10-10, DOI - PSIN-2010-02862-014; 2010-02862-014; 0022-0221; 1552-5422, SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Cross Cultural Differences, Friedlmeier, W. Family and human development across cultures. A view from the other side - Kagitcibasi,C. INTERNATI...

Die kulturvergleichende Forschung zu Emotionen bewegt sich zwischen universalistischen und kulturrelativistischen Ansätzen (Friedlmeier & Matsumoto, 2007). Ein Grund für diese Spannbreite von Ansätzen steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Konzept der Emotion selbst. Emotionales Geschehen ist ein komplexes Gebilde und verschiedene theoretische Ansätze fokus...

We introduce a new construct called Context Differentiation (CD), and describe how it functions on both the individual and cultural levels. We derive several measures of it from a multi-context measure of cultural display rules for emotional expressions obtained from 33 countries, and examine country and cultural differences on it, and relate those...

This study investigates emotional display rules for seven basic emotions. The main goal was to compare emotional display rules of Canadians, US Americans, and Japanese across as well as within cultures regarding the specific emotion, the type of interaction partner, and gender. A total of 835 university students participated in the study. The resul...

According to a relation-theoretical approach, the construction of reciprocal relationships is an important aspect of social competence. The relevance of intraindividual adaptation of interaction behavior towards different partners for the development of social competence with peers in early childhood has rarely been studied. Three main questions re...

Despite the importance of the concept of cultural display rules in explaining cultural differences in emotional expression, and despite the fact that it has been over 30 years since this concept was coined (Ekman & Friesen, 1969), there is yet to be a study that surveys display rules across a wide range of cultures. This article reports such a stud...

The aim of this study was to investigate caregivers' developmental goals in Brazil and Germany and to explain inter- and intracultural variations in these goals by taking their respective subjective cultural values into account. The main question was whether caregivers' preferences of developmental goals depend on their perception of prevailing nor...

This article reports differences across 23 countries on 2 processes of emotion regulation-reappraisal and suppression. Cultural dimensions were correlated with country means on both and the relationship between them. Cultures that emphasized the maintenance of social order-that is, those that were long-term oriented and valued embeddedness and hier...

This study examined emotional responding (sympathy and distress) and prosocial behavior as well as their relations across four cultures in a specific context. Preschool children (N = 212) from two Western cultures, Germany and Israel, and two South-East Asian cultures, Indonesia and Malaysia, participated in this study. Children’s emotional reactio...

This prospective longitudinal study investigated whether and in what way different functions of attachment relationships are transferred from parents to reciprocal relationship partners in adolescence. Furthermore, the impact of nationality, romantic relationship status, and individual differences in perceived attachment history and current attachm...

When trying to mark out the boundaries of phenomena covered by emotional development, we have to answer the question raised by Mascolo and Griffin (1998b) in the title of their book: What develops in emotional development? Despite all the differences in the existing theoretical approaches, there seems to be a general consensus that emotions possess...

This chapter presents a model of emotional development that tries to integrate each of the conclusions drawn in the previous chapter when discussing the four emotion paradigms. We understand emotions as functional psychological systems within an individual's action system. Their function is to regulate those aspects of actions that have to do with...

When describing ontogenesis in the last chapter, we deliberately limited ourselves to the development of emotions in western cultures alone. Nearly all the studies cited came from an Anglo-American or German context. Such an explicit limitation means that we have proceeded as if one major condition underlying human development were a constant. This...

This article examines methodological issues related to the measurement of implicit motives in culturally divergent samples. Implicit motives are seen as basic needs shared by all human beings. However, crosscultural comparisons are very restricted because many cross-cultural studies on implicit motives with non-Western cultures developed and discus...

Date revised - 20050912, Number of references - 73, Last updated - 2012-09-10, DOI - PSIN-2005-08029-006; 2005-08029-006; 1841695688, Albas, Daniel C.; McCluskey, Ken W.; Albas, Cheryl A. Perception of the emotional content of speech: A comparison of two Canadian groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 7. 4 (1976): 481-490. Sage Publications,...

As intercultural encounters between people in the modern world become more common, important questions have been raised about the nature of culture-specific differences and similarities. Focusing on the relationship between culture and human development, this timely book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of key developmental processes. It com...

Der vorliegende Beitrag geht von einer engen Verbindung zwischen Individuum und Kultur aus. Welcher Art diese Verbindung ist, wie sie entsteht und wirksam ist, soll hier aus entwicklungspsychologischer Sicht präzisiert und am Beispiel von subjektiven Entwicklungstheorien behandelt werden. Zunächst wird die Beziehung zwischen Kultur und Individuum d...

In dem folgenden Kapitel werden drei Ziele verfolgt. In einem ersten Schritt werden drei Forschungsrichtungen aufgezeigt, die sich mit den kulturspezifischen Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden von Facetten der emotionalen Kompetenz beschäftigen. Dabei werden Defizite hinsichtlich der Erklärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Emotionen und Kultur deutlich...

Zusammenfassung. Die Emotionsregulation entwickelt sich in den ersten Lebensjahren von externer zu intern gesteuerter Regulation. Dabei ist anzunehmen, dass der mikrogenetische Verlauf negativer emotionaler Reaktionen mit der Sensitivität der Bezugsperson im Zusammenhang steht, dass sich im interaktiven Prozess Ausdrucks− und Eindrucksbildung paral...

The purpose of this study is to analyze toddlers’ regulation of negative emotions in two cultures. A general sequential model of emotion regulation is specified that takes emotional reaction, goal-directed behavior strategies, and the interactive process between child and mother into account. Two-year-old Japanese (n = 20) and German (n = 20) girls...

The present study aims to clarify the role of different emotions for children’s prosocial behaviour on the basis of a motivation-theoretical approach. Specifically, the functions of empathy and distress with respect to prosocial behaviour were investigated in two different experimental situations. Fiveyear- old girls (N = 50) participated in two ob...

This volume presents sociological and psychological studies referring to social change in Japanese society. For a long time Japan’s economic achievement which has often been related to the traditional Japanese value system, has been seen as a possible model for Western societies. Presently, the ongoing economic problems shake this image, and severa...

The goal of this contribution is to describe some characteristics of mother-child relationships in Japan and Germany including consequences for child-rearing practices and children's development. In contrast to Germany. in Japan a strong emotional bond between mother and child, the encouragement of amae-behavior. maternal sensitivity, and responsiv...

The present study aims to examine culturally invariant and culture-specific patterns of mother-child interaction, and, more specifically, to explore the stability and change of such interactions in structurally different situations. Starting from a control theoretical framework (primary and secondary control), we expected that differences in stress...

The present study aims to examine culturally invariant and culture-specific patterns of mother-child interaction, and, more specifically, to explore the stability and change of such interactions in structurally different situations. Starting from a control theoretical framework (primary and secondary control), we. expected that differences in stres...

Im nachfolgenden Beitrag wollen wir daher folgende drei Fragestellungen in Bezug auf Empathie und deren Entwicklung diskutieren: 1. Welche emotionalen Entwicklungsaspekte sind für Empathie relevant? 2. Welche Bedeutung kommt den kognitiven und sprachlichen Fähigkeiten für die Empathie-Entwicklung zu? 3. Welche Sozialisationsbedingungen und welches...

Date revised - 19910901, Last updated - 2012-09-10, DOI - PSIN-1991-76413-001; 1991-76413-001; 0044-2712, SubjectsTermNotLitGenreText - Item Analysis (Statistical)