Sticking out and fitting in: Culture-specific predictors of 3-year-olds’ autobiographical memories during joint reminiscing

Schröder, Lisa; Kärtner, Joscha; Keller, Heidi; Chaudhary, Nandita

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.06.002

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“…Consistent with previous research comparing dyads (of similarly well‐educated urban background) from autonomy‐oriented and relatedness‐oriented cultural contexts (e.g., Schröder et al, 2012; Wang, 2007), our findings indicated that Australian mothers were more elaborative than Chinese mothers during reminiscing. Specifically, Australian mothers used significantly more wh ‐questions and confirmations (i.e., the two critical aspects of an elaborative reminiscing style that have been identified in past research; for a review, see Wu & Jobson, 2019) than Chinese mothers.…”

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Maternal Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory Features of Mother–Child Dyads in a Cross‐Cultural Context

Jobson

2020

Child Development

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Maternal reminiscing styles and mother-child memory features were examined in a cross-cultural context. Fifty-five Chinese (Guangzhou, China) and 48 Australian (Melbourne, Australia) mother-child dyads (child age: 3-6 years) independently retrieved autobiographical memories and jointly discussed past events. Australian mothers used greater elaborative and supportive reminiscing and provided more specific memories than Chinese mothers. Australian children provided greater memory elaboration than Chinese children, but they did not differ in memory specificity. Maternal reminiscing styles and cultural group were independently predictive of child memory elaboration but not specificity. Nonetheless, moderation analyses showed that the two maternal reminiscing styles (elaborative and supportive) interacted to predict child memory specificity. These findings indicate the importance of culture and types of reminiscing on memory development.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Maternal Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory Features of Mother–Child Dyads in a Cross‐Cultural Context

Jobson

2020

Child Development

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“…Scientists should not generalize results from one culture to another culture without evidence. For example, Schröder, Kärtner, Keller, and Chaudhary () conducted a comparative study of interactions between middle‐class mothers and their 19‐month‐old children in Berlin, Germany, and Delhi, India. They found that the culturally normative behavior of Berlin mothers in play situations (e.g., following the children's lead) predicted children's conversational participation and language production in the Berlin children at age 3.…”

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Bringing the Real World Into Developmental Science: A Commentary on Weber, Fernald, and Diop (2017)

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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 developmental pathways; and pit scientific knowledge against indigenous knowledge. The authors question the critical role of talk as solely providing the rich cognitive stimulation important to school success, and the critical role of primary caregivers as teachers of children's verbal competency. Ethically, these programs do not sufficiently explore how an intervention in one aspect of child care will affect the community's culturally organized patterns of child care.

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“…She uses mental language with 'liking', 'wanting'. The boy expresses the same mental language, he clearly articulates his preferences and talks about his wishes and wants [38]. The vast majority of children in Western middle-class families visit out of home care institutions, daycare, nursery school, kindergarten.…”

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Psychological autonomy and hierarchical relatedness as organizers of developmental pathways

Keller¹

2016

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Sticking out and fitting in: Culture-specific predictors of 3-year-olds’ autobiographical memories during joint reminiscing

Cited by 58 publications

References 31 publications

Maternal Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory Features of Mother–Child Dyads in a Cross‐Cultural Context

Maternal Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory Features of Mother–Child Dyads in a Cross‐Cultural Context

Bringing the Real World Into Developmental Science: A Commentary on Weber, Fernald, and Diop (2017)

Psychological autonomy and hierarchical relatedness as organizers of developmental pathways

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