Families Across Cultures : A 30-Nation Psychological Study (Hardcover)

Part I: 1. Families and family change James Georgas; 2. Cross-cultural theory and methodology John W. Berry and Ype H. Poortinga; 3. Theoretical perspectives on family change Cigdem Kagitcibasi; 4. Family portraits from 30 countries: an overview Ype H. Poortinga and James Georgas; 5. Hypotheses John W. Berry, Cigdem Kagitcibasi, James Georgas, Ype H. Poortinga and Fons J. R. van de Vijver; 6. Methodology of the study James Georgas, Fons J. R. van de Vijver, John W. Berry, Cigdem Kagitcibasi and Ype H. Poortinga; 7. Results: cross-cultural analyses of family Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Kostas Mylonas, Vassilis Pavlopoulos and James Georgas; 8. Synthesis: how similar and different are families across cultures? James Georgas, John W. Berry, Cigdem Kagitcibasi, Ype H. Poortinga and Fons J. R. van de Vijver; Part II. The Family Portraits: Ethnographic Descriptions of 30 Nations: Algeria Mustafa M. Achoui; Botswana Adebowale Akande, Bolanle Adetoun and Johnston Osagie; Brazil Claudio V. Torres and Maria Auxiliadora Dessen; Bulgaria Velislava Marinova-Schmidt and Elena Krasteva; Canada Kyunghwa Kwak and John W. Berry; Chile Francisco Donoso-Maluf; China Peter W. H. Lee and Sunita Stewart; Cyprus Neophytos Charalambous; France Gerard Pithon and Olivier Prevot; Georgia Nana Sumbadze; Germany Heidi Keller; Ghana Benjamin Amponsah, Charity Akotia and Akinsola Olowu; Greece Kostas Mylonas, Katerini Gari, Artemis Giotsa, Vassilis Pavlopoulos and Penny Panagiotopoulou; India Janak Pandey; Indonesia Bernadette N. Setiadi; Iran Shahrenaz Mortazavi; Japan Yukiko Muramoto; Mexico Rolando Diaz-Loving; Mongolia Tuya Buyantsogt; Netherlands Peter Cuyvers; Nigeria Yuwanna Jenny Mivanyi; Pakistan Riffat Moazam Zaman, Taymiya Riffat Zaman and Sunita Stewart; Saudi Arabia Mustafa M. Achoui; Spain Hector Grad; South Africa Adebowale Akande, Bolanle Adetoun and Maggie Tserere; South Korea Uichol Kim and Young-Shin Park; Turkey Bilge Ataca; Ukraine Irina Zhuravliova-Gionis; United Kingdom Robin Goodwin, Sophia Christakopoulou and Vicky Panagiotidou; United States Lia Softas-Nall and Denis G. Sukhodolsky.