Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Best, Deborah L.

doi: 10.1177/00220221221138908pmid: N/A

Lin, Gao-Xian; Mikolajczak, Moïra; Keller, Heidi; Akgun, Ege; Arikan, Gizem; Aunola, Kaisa; Barham, Elizabeth; Besson, Eliane; Blanchard, M. Annelise; Boujut, Emilie; Brianda, Maria Elena; Brytek-Matera, Anna; César, Filipa; Chen, Bin-Bin; Dorard, Géraldine; dos Santos Elias, Luciana Carla; Dunsmuir, Sandra; Egorova, Natalia; Escobar, Maria Josefina; Favez, Nicolas; Fontaine, Anne Marie; Foran, Heather; Furutani, Kaichiro; Gannagé, Myrna; Gaspar, Maria; Godbout, Lucie;

Harkness, Sara

doi: 10.1177/00220221221134737pmid: N/A

Raval, Vaishali V.

doi: 10.1177/00220221221134915pmid: N/A

In “Parenting Culture(s): Ideal-Parent Beliefs Across 37 Countries,” Lin et al. examine reports of parents from 37 countries regarding the qualities they consider in an ideal parent and then use a method called Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis to identify broad culture zones across the 37 countries based on shared notions of an ideal parent. I appreciate this substantial effort to explore parenting beyond Euro-American samples, upon which a bulk of parenting science literature is based. I also concur with a data-driven exploratory approach and examination of ideal-parent beliefs across parents with differing educational levels. However, I argue that to advance parenting science, we need more than inclusion of samples from the Majority World (i.e., regions where the majority of the world’s population resides). Future parenting research should be grounded in (a) decolonial epistemology that involves generating localized knowledge by exploring parenting in various communities in the Majority World that are formed through intersecting influences of neighborhood composition, religion, region, social class, urban, rural, and suburban residence, along with other locally relevant social dimensions, (b) decolonial research methodology that values different ways of generating knowledge and includes local communities as partners in the knowledge generation process, and (c) understanding and interpreting parenting in Majority World communities from a cultural resource rather than a deficit framework.

Trommsdorff, Gisela

doi: 10.1177/00220221221138907pmid: N/A

Fernando, Julian W.; Burden, Nicholas; Judge, Madeline; O’Brien, Léan V.; Ashman, Hollis; Paladino, Angela; Kashima, Yoshihisa

doi: 10.1177/00220221221126419pmid: N/A

Throughout history, people have expressed the desire for an ideal society—a utopia. These imagined societies have motivated action for social change. Recent research has demonstrated this motivational effect among ordinary people in English-speaking countries, but we know little about the specific content of ordinary people’s utopian visions in different cultures. Here we report that a majority of samples from four countries—Australia, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States—converge on a small number of utopian visions: a Modern Green utopia, a Primitivist utopia, a Futurist utopia, and a Religious utopia. Although the prevalence of these utopia profiles differed across countries, there was a cross-cultural convergence in utopian visions. These shared visions may provide common ground for conversations about how to achieve a better future across cultural borders.

Lomas, Tim; Diego-Rosell, Pablo; Shiba, Koichiro; Standridge, Priscilla; Lee, Matthew T.; Case, Brendan; Lai, Alden Yuanhong; VanderWeele, Tyler J.

doi: 10.1177/00220221221130978pmid: N/A

A wealth of research has suggested the West tends toward individualism and the East toward collectivism. We explored this topic on an unprecedented scale through two new items in the 2020 Gallup World Poll, involving 121,207 participants in 116 countries. The first tapped into orientations toward self-care versus other-care (“Do you think people should focus more on taking care of themselves or on taking care of others?”). The second enquired into self-orientation versus other-orientation (“Which of the following is closest to your main purpose in life? Being good at what you do in your daily life, Caring for family and close friends, or Helping other people who need help?”). We anticipated that self-care and self-orientation would index individualism (hence be higher in the West), while other-care and other-orientation would index collectivism (hence be higher in the East). However, contrary to expectation, there was greater self-care in the East (45.82%) than in the West (41.58%). As predicted though, there was greater self-orientation in the West (30.20%) than in the East (23.08.%). Greater self-care in the East invites one of two interpretations. Either these items: (a) index individualism and collectivism as anticipated, so in some ways the East is more individualistic and the West less individualistic than assumed; or (b) do not index individualism and collectivism as anticipated, so the concepts are more complex than often realized (e.g., collectivism may involve prioritizing self-care over other-care). Either way, the findings help complexify these concepts, challenging common cross-cultural generalizations in this area.

Doery, Elizabeth; Satyen, Lata; Paradies, Yin; Toumbourou, John W.

doi: 10.1177/00220221221128215pmid: N/A

The disproportionate burden of mental illness experienced by Indigenous adolescents is well established. Therefore, this review focused on how the well-being of Indigenous adolescents can be better promoted. The review identified studies that examined the relationship between cultural engagement and psychological well-being among Indigenous adolescents. To achieve this, a systematic search of published literature across seven online databases including Medline and EMBASE was conducted between October and November 2020. To meet the inclusion criteria, studies were required to include a sample of Indigenous adolescents and measure the relationship between psychological well-being and cultural engagement. Twenty-five studies met the inclusion criteria, yielding a total sample size of 19,231 participants. Eighteen studies (72%) reported a significant positive relationship between cultural engagement and psychological well-being, four studies (16%) reported a nonsignificant relationship, and three studies (12%) reported mixed findings. Despite measuring different domains of culture across the 25 studies, these findings demonstrate relatively strong evidence of a positive association between cultural engagement and psychological well-being. They highlight the importance of culture for young Indigenous Peoples in developing a positive well-being. In the future, researchers should focus on specifying how intervention factors contribute to cultural engagement effects and establish further contributors to well-being and positive development among Indigenous adolescents. The findings of this review advance our understanding of how Indigenous Peoples interpret culture and their engagement with this culture. This has implications for policy, programs, and interventions intended to enhance well-being outcomes for Indigenous communities.

Moy, Jason H.; Van Dyne, Angelina; Hattrup, Kate

doi: 10.1177/00220221221119720pmid: N/A

This study investigated the combined effects of national culture and perceptions of employability on relationships between job insecurity and work and non-work outcomes for individual employees. Data from 28,674 participants in 35 nations were obtained from the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey. Results showed that nation-level differences in individualism/collectivism (I/C), uncertainty avoidance (UA), and masculinity/femininity (M/F) accounted for variation in the degree to which perceptions of employability buffered the negative effects of job insecurity on job satisfaction, work engagement, and subjective well-being. Among more collectivist cultures, employability did less to minimize the effects of job insecurity on job satisfaction than in more individualistic cultures. Employability also had a weaker effect on buffering the consequences of job insecurity for job satisfaction and work engagement when cultural uncertainty avoidance was higher. And across all three outcome measures, higher levels of job insecurity combined with lower perceptions of employability were consistently more detrimental to individuals in more masculine cultures. Results support the prevailing theory regarding the mechanisms underlying the effects of job insecurity on individuals and suggest several important practical implications for managing a global workforce.

Nelson, Lonnie A.; Collins, Susan E.; Birch, Jasmine; Burns, Raven; McPhail, Grace; Onih, Jemima; Cupp, Cameron; Ubay, Tatiana; King, Victor; Taylor, Emily; Masciel, Karissa; Slaney, Trevor; Bunch, Joseph; King, Roxanna; Mahinalani-Garza, Celina;