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Mothers’ parenting knowledge and its sources in five societies: Specificity in and across Argentina, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, and the United States

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: In a cross-society comparison, we assessed the state of mothers' knowledge of child rearing and child development. The study included 1,077 mothers from five countries on four continents: Argentina, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, and the United States. A criteria-referenced instrument, the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory, was used to assess parenting knowledge after being adapted for cross-society comparison using item response theory and the alignment optimization approach for testing between-sample measurement invariance. Levels of mothers' parenting knowledge varied across the five societies and were associated with different sociodemographic factors and personal and non-personal supports.

Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development

DOI: 10.1177/0165025419861440

Authors: Marc H. Bornstein, Jing Yu, Diane L. Putnick

Institutions: Institute for Fiscal Studies, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Language: English

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: Child and Family Development across the First Three Decades