An impact of the distance on grandparental childcare: A comparative study conducted in Russia, the United States, and Brazil

We tested this prediction on data collected in three cultural contexts of modern post-industrial societies. Quantitative data on the frequency of grandparental involvement in childcare were collected via a set of online surveys conducted in 2019 in Russia, the United States, and Brazil (N= 1531) and analyzed in R software. The current research was also focused on the analysis of the impact of the distance between households on the frequency of kinship assistance in childcare. Results. We found significant cross-cultural universalizes: 1) the distance between households negatively affects the frequency of help; 2) the care of the maternal grandparents is significantly higher than the care of the paternal grandparents. Discussion. In this study we found that the distance between households and family kin side have stable significant impact on the grandparental help cross-culturally. At the same time, it was shown that grandparental help in childcare is significantly reduced in Brazil compared to the other two studied countries. The phenomenon of reduced kin help in Brazil is an important finding and requires further research by evolutionary psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists.

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The impact of perceived relationship to ancestors on the association between self-transcendence and psychopathology: A cross-cultural examination

Transcultural Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/13634615211049072 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 136346152110490

Author(s):

Simon Hanseung Choi ◽

Clayton Hoi-Yun McClintock ◽

Elsa Lau ◽

Lisa Miller

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Depression And Anxiety ◽

Negatively Associated ◽

Self Transcendence ◽

High Level ◽

The Impact ◽

India And China

Self-transcendence has been associated with lower levels of psychopathology. Most studies of self-transcendence have focused on samples of Western participants, and used scales addressing such concepts as self-awareness and feelings of oneness with the larger universe. However, a common Eastern notion of transcendence—perception of ongoing relationships with ancestors—has not been studied. We conducted a cross-cultural investigation of the association between self-transcendence, perceived degree of relationship to ancestors and depression and anxiety in the United States (N = 1499), China (N = 3,150), and India (N = 863). Degrees of perceived relationship to ancestors differed across countries, with the highest rates in India and China, and lowest rates in the United States. Self-transcendence was negatively associated with risks for depression and anxiety in the United States. In India, self-transcendence was also negatively associated with risks for depression and anxiety, and a strong perceived relationship with ancestors had further protective benefit. In China, those with a high level of perceived relationship to ancestors and a high level of self-transcendence exhibited lower levels of psychopathology. Results suggest that measures of relationship to ancestors might be included in future cross-cultural studies of transcendence.

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The Ranking Of Terminal And Instrumental Values By Working Professionals In Thailand, Singapore And The United States: What Is Important And How Do They Impact Decision-Making?

International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) ◽

10.19030/iber.v7i4.3245 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Natcha Limthanakom ◽

William Lauffer ◽

Bahaudin G. Mujtaba ◽

Edward F. Murphy, Jr.

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Research Literature ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Individual Values ◽

Male And Female ◽

Value Differences ◽

Instrumental Values ◽

Western Values ◽

The Impact

The purpose of this study is to explore gender and cross-cultural gender differences with respect to individual values. This study will fill a gap in the research literature as few studies have explored male and female value differences in Thailand and few have explored sex differences between eastern values as compared to western values in the United States and another eastern nation, Singapore. An understanding of the attitudes, cultures and values in other countries becomes particularly significant given current globalization trends. Furthermore, researchers also need to understand different demographics to better anticipate the impact of socio-demographic variation in cross-cultural investigations.

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A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY ON RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND INFORMATION

New Mathematics and Natural Computation ◽

10.1142/s1793005710001645 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 06 (02) ◽

pp. 167-176

Author(s):

YUMIKO NARA

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Risk Management ◽

United States Of America ◽

Action Plan ◽

The United States ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Social Survey ◽

Cross Cultural Study ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact

In this paper, the author aims to examine the differences in perception concerning the anxiety toward the risk among three countries — Japan, the United States of America and China. The anxiety, in this case, is triggered by uncertainty. This paper also intends to clarify the effect of information to improve people's risk management targeted on the respondents of the Chinese population focusing on earthquake disasters. The social survey using questionnaire has been carried out in order to obtain the needed quantitative data for my research project. It is interesting to conclude that both respondents in China and in the United States tend to accept the impact of uncertainty better. They have shown somewhat lower level of anxiety toward nineteen items of the risks as compared with that of the Japanese respondents. The significant effects on information designed as a part of the risk management action plan as well as the living sufficiency safeguard are clearly observed.

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Charles Boxer and the Race Equivoque 1

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197265246.003.0006 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

JOÃO DE PINA-CABRAL

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Race Relations ◽

The United States ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

The World ◽

Colonial Empire ◽

History Of ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Impact

Charles Boxer's Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415–1825, which came out nearly half a century ago, has found a readership beyond the circle of those interested in the history of Portuguese overseas expansion. Boxer was perfectly conscious, as he produced it, of the impact his essay would have. He found in the discourse of race an instrument of mediation that allowed him to continue to develop his favoured topics of research in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The response to Boxer's book points to the highly charged atmosphere that continues to surround all debates concerning ‘race’ and, in particular, those that compare North American notions of race with those that can be observed elsewhere in the world. This chapter attempts to shed new light on what caused such a longstanding cross-cultural misinterpretation.

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