Children are not born grateful; their understanding and expression of gratitude develops during childhood and adolescence. We used a qualitative measure designed to asses[...]

The authors examine social-class differences in parents' child-rearing values for autonomy, self-direction, and conformity and the extent to which their values are influe[...]

Children's first years of life are fundamental for healthy development. Appropriate care and education in the early years are far more useful than dealing with later prob[...]

Children's play in industrialized societies such as the United States tends to be observed either under controlled conditions, in a laboratory or studied via closed-choic[...]

Although many scholars continue to describe cultural differences in terms of the individualism–collectivism distinction, unidimensional measures seem unlikely to capture [...]

Considering gratitude as a virtue, rather than a positive emotion, requires measures different from those more commonly used and which conflate gratitude with appreciatio[...]

There has been a burgeoning interest in gratitude in adults, adolescents, and children, with most scholars examining the relations between variations in level of gratitud[...]

As we show in this chapter, much of the literature about children's experiences in Kenya focuses on children in rural areas, whose parents have little or no education. Th[...]