Global Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families

ISBN-13: 9783031492297 / Angielski

Yan Ruth Xia; Maria Rosario T. de Guzman; Rosario Esteinou

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Book will be divided into 4 main sections with chapters that explore different aspects of those themes.

Foreword

Proposed and contributors: Stephen Russell, Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development

and the Department Chair, Human Development and Family Sciences in the

College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Jennifer Lansford, Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy,

Duke University

Introduction to the book

Proposed authors: Yan Xia, Maria de Guzman, Rosario Esteinou, & Cody Hollist

SECTION 1: Adolescence and families in rapidly shifting contexts and norms

Chapter 1: Adolescence in the period of rapid globalization

Abstract: Globalization, or increased contact across borders in the forms of trade, travel, communication, and

exchange of knowledge and technology has had profound impacts on adolescents around the world.

Developmental processes impacted by globalization, for instance, identity development, value formation, and

social development, are all deeply rooted in the family and embedded in the immediate context (e.g., rural

versus urban, geographic locale). Nonetheless, we know little about how shifts brought about by globalization

impact the adolescent via the family; or how the family-adolescent relationship evolves in the shifting

caregiving landscape. This chapter will explore the broad implications of globalization for adolescence but also

hone in on how the local landscape (e.g., urban versus rural) and the broader ecocultural context interact with

family dynamics as it pertains to adolescent development.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Jessica McKenzie, Associate Professor of Child and Family Science, California State University-Fresno

(U.S.A.)

Heejung Park, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College (U.S.A.)

Radosveta Dimitrova, Docent, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University

Chapter 2: Adolescents’ use of social media and digital technology

Abstract: The accelerating rate of social media use and digital technology access among adolescents around

the world has heightened interest and concern among scholars and mental health professionals in recent

years. The new digital landscape has transformed the very nature of adolescent relationships – shaping the

breadth and quality of social connections, redefining group dynamics, and introducing new types of social

behaviors and competencies (e.g., novel rewards) (e.g., see Nesi, Choukas-Bradley, & Prinstein, 2018). Less is

known about the implications of social media on adolescents’ family relationships or how the familyadolescent-

social media nexus unfolds in various cultural contexts. This chapter will explore how adolescents’

social media and digital technology access intersect with family life and how various culturally embedded

constructs (e.g., communication, family configurations) evolve against the new information age.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Fernando García, Professor of Psychological Methods and Design of Research Studies, University of

Valencia (Spain)

Michaeline Jensen, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Greensboro (U.S.A.)

Mustafa Savci, Lecturer, Department of Counseling and Psychology, Firat University (Turkey)

Chapter 3: LGBTQA+ adolescents, shifting norms, and family perceptions

Abstract: Parents and families have profound impacts on the wellbeing of adolescents in general and play an

especially critical role in supporting LGBTQ youth who are at heightened risk for a host of negative health

outcomes due to discrimination and hostile environments. These families do not exist in a vacuum and are

embedded within broader sociocultural contexts. As substantial diversity exists around the world in state

rights, community norms, and acceptance for LGBTQ individuals – individual and family-level experiences for

LGBTQ youth can vary substantially. This chapter will explore how aspects of the broader context (e.g.,

cultural norms, state laws) interact with family dynamics and the wellbeing of LGBTQ adolescents.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Mira Orofreno, Associate Professor of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)

Michael Newcomb, Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University; and

Associate Director for Scientific Development of the Northwestern Institute for Sexual and Gender

Minority Health and Wellbeing (U.S.A.)

Michael LaSala, Associate Professor and Director of Doctorate of Social Work Program, Rutgers University

(U.S.A.)

SECTION 2: Adolescence and families in context of socio-political crisis and upheaval

Chapter 4: Refugees, war and regional violence

Abstract: The understanding of adolescent’s lives and their families, either as refugees in other countries or

as living in contexts of war and regional violence is wanting. Most research so far has been undertaken in

developed or high-income countries, usually in the European and the United States. Less has been inquired

in those with low or middle-income, despite the fact they report the highest numbers of refugees or

experience long-term social and political violence and conflicts. Often, families face not only uncertainty

regarding their legal status but also challenges regarding splitting members, mental health, economic

survival and their social and cultural inclusion into the host country or own community. They have to deal

with what was left behind, their loved ones, and what they built as their personal history and sense of

belonging. These social contexts set a problematic environment for raising adolescents. This chapter will

explore how these contexts have affected adolescent-parent relationships, what are the main challenges

parents face and how they cope, with the available emotional, psychological, familial and material resources.

The challenges adolescents’ face regarding their relationships with parents and their social environment, and

how they develop resiliency and agency it may be considered as well.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Ikhlas Ahmad. Assistant Professor, School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington (U.S.A.)

Lotte Buch Segal. Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology. University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

Sara Victoria Alvarado. Professor at the International Center of Education and Human

Development. University of Manizales (Colombia)

Raija-Leena Punamäki-Gitai. Professor of Psychology at Tampere University (Finland)

Chapter 5: Adolescence in the context of political unrest and violence

Abstract: Political unrest and violence engender an environment where daily social life routines may shift in

significant ways. Some causes of unrest lie on how organized crime and their infliction of violence has

extensively permeated some societies mining trust, sowing fear and self-censorship. The disappearance,

extortion or kidnapping of a family member may lead families to organize themselves in search of the beloved

one, as government’s initiatives are unsuccessful to tackle these problems. There is little research on how

families with adolescents develop in this context. This chapter will explore some of the issues involved in it,

such as what are the mental, emotional, economic, and social implications in parenting adolescents under this

risk scenario. How the responsiveness and demandingness dimensions are built to engender autonomy, to

cope with school bullying, to protect adolescents from other resulting hardship and help them to be resilient

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Rosario Esteinou and Anahí Reyes, Professor/Researcher at CIESAS (Mexico)

Alcinda Honwana, Visiting Professor at Open University, and London School of Economics (UK)

Laura Taylor, Asistant Professor/Lecturer at University of Dublin (Ireland)

Chapter 6: Adolescence, civic engagement and political movements.

Abstract: Building citizenship has become a central concern globally to a broad array of researchers in a

variety of academic fields, to policymakers and practitioners. It had involved primarily, until recently, the

provision of legal means and institutional arrangements addressed to adult members of society, and extensive

research has been developed related to these matters. Less inquiry, however, has been done regarding how

families rear adolescents engaging them in civic life, how they engender social capital and involvement in

public and political life. This chapter will explore how parents instill and support, through socialization, civic

engagement and trust in areas such as gender equity and multicultural literacy.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Mario Quaranta, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research. University of

Trento (Italy)

Ndumba Kamwanyah, Professor, Deputy Director of the Centre for Professional Development and

Teaching and Learning Improvement. University of Namibia (Namibia)

Judith Torney-Porta, Professor at the University of Maryland (U.S.A.)

SECTION 3: Adolescents and families in the context of individual stress and strain

Chapter 7: Crisis, trauma and suicide

Abstract: Suicide is considered by the World Health Organization to be a global health crisis and is the second

leading cause of death for adolescents globally. Families are similarly impacted by suicidal ideation and

nonsuicidal self-injury. Research links these self-harming behaviors with trauma, mental illness and family

functioning exacerbating the family impact of the crisis. This chapter will explore how families both impact

and are impacted by adolescent self-harming behavior. The chapter will also address family role in the

effective treatment of suicidal ideation and trauma. Global approaches to trauma response and prevention of

suicide will outline the role of family in those systemic programs.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Cody Hollist, Associate Professor in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies. University of

Nebraska-Lincoln (U.S.A.)

Ana Lucia Horta, Professor and Chair of the Department of Nursing. Federal University of São Paulo

(Brazil)

Atsushi Nishida, Director of the Center for Social Sciences and Medical Sciences. Tokyo Metropolitan

Institute of Medical Science (Japan)

Chapter 8: Substance use

Abstract: Adolescents’ use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs have long been considered a significant health

and community risk. Despite programs to ameliorate adolescent substance use, it continues to plague

communities throughout the world. Years of research has led to an understanding of the importance of family

in both the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance use. Treatment without family has gains in

decreasing use but does little to impact the systemic factors that often feed the initial motivation to use.

Family treatment and prevention programs are designed to address both substance use and family factors

that lead to use. This chapter will describe the role of family in adolescent substance use and outline how

family-based programs can impact the adolescent and the family as a whole.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

José Zapacznick, Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami (U.S.A.)

Antover Tuliao, Assistant Professor in the Department of Community, Family and Addiction Sciences.

Texas Tech University (U.S.A.)

Chapter 9: Parent relational strain and divorce

Abstract: Adverse childhood experiences (Felitti, Anda et al., 1998) are known to be significant indicators of

later life health. The most commonly experienced adverse childhood experience is the separation and/or

divorce of parents. This is most often a result of parental relationship strain, but the impact may be just as

painful for adolescent children. While the experience of parental separation and/or divorce can be felt by

adolescents around the world, cultural beliefs about divorce vary so greatly as to make global generalizations

of that impact almost impossible. The goal of this chapter is to discuss the impact of parental separation and

divorce in several cultural contexts.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Mariya Saporovskaya, Chair of the Department of Social Psychology. Kostroma State University (Russia)

Mahlab Ijaz, Sight Center, University of the Punjab (Pakistan)

Chapter 10: Families and violence

Abstract: Violence at home has a significant impact on adolescent development, whether witnessed,

perpetrator of or the victim. Research has linked domestic violence to adolescent mental illness, suicide, selfharm,

substance use and significant later life mental and physical health problems. Strained parent-child

relationships, even with the nonviolent parent, affect healthy parenting and development. This chapter will

describe how adolescents are impacted by domestic violence in several contexts around the world to show

the pervasive impact of family violence on adolescent development.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Jane Rose Njue, Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, Northern Illinois University and

Kenyatta University (Kenya)

John Crownover, CARE International, working with US and Bulkan regions (U.S.A.)

Devi Prasad, Professor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India)

Chapter 11: Families and adolescents in poverty

Abstract: According to the United Nations, 462 million adolescents worldwide live in families that survive on

less than US$2.00 a day with 238 million living on less than 1 US dollar a day. Worldwide, 152 million youth

are working to help sustain families that live below the international poverty line (US$1.25/day). Poverty and

the need to work has a major impact on adolescent education, leaving about 126 million youth in poverty

without the ability to read or write a simple sentence, a significant predictor of future poverty. The number of

families living in poverty worldwide is considered by many academics as one of the most important barriers to

healthy development. This chapter will discuss the impact of poverty on adolescents and their families and

highlight some programs that support adolescent economic development and the family impact of those

programs.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Silvia Koller, Visiting Research Scientist at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, Professor Emeritus

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Liane Alampay, Professor of Psychology. Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)

SECTION 4: Adolescents, families and the transition to adulthood

Chapter 12: Dating, romantic relationships and sexuality

Abstract: Although adolescent dating relationships offer various developmental benefits (e.g., development of

reciprocity, cooperation), they can also increase an individual’s risk for negative relationship experiences, such

as early sexual involvement, risky sexual behaviors, and dating violence, as well as strained relationships with

parents who do not approve their behavior. In Western countries, most adolescents begin engaging in casual

dating relationships during early adolescence. By later adolescence, these relationships become steadier and

more serious, where partners are more emotionally and sexually intimate (Meier & Allen, 2009). There is

limited literature about adolescent dating behavior and its interaction with family development process and

dynamics. This chapter aims to bring a multicultural and/or multi-national experiences to the audience.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Sarah Taylor, Assistant Professor, California State University – Long Beach (U.S.A.)

Natasza Kosakowska, Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Gender Psychology University of

Gdańsk, (Poland)

Stefanie Strulik, Research fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development at the

Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland)

Djidjoho Akloubou Gnonhossou, Adjunct faculty at Seattle Pacific University (U.S.A.)

Chapter 13: Parent-adolescent relationship and communication

Abstract: Adolescents redefine their roles in making decisions that used to be their parents’ domain, and seek

an equalitarian parent-child relationship. The growing sense of autonomy and independence prompts

adolescents to exercise more control over their activities (Xia, et al, 2004). This negotiation process is

unfolded and influenced by factors such as family structure, socioeconomic context and cultural values, e.g.,

individualistic and collectivistic. This chapter may take a comparative or multination approach to examine

parent-adolescent relationship, adolescent developmental process and outcomes.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Grace Chung, Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies, Seoul National University (South

Korea)

Xiaoyi Fang, Professor for the Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University (China)

Chapter 14: Stability and shifts in adolescents’ goals, values and perceptions of quality of life

Abstract: A robust body of work suggests that values, goals, and definitions of competence and wellbeing vary

across societies. For instance, parental socialization goals diverge in somewhat predictable ways that map on

to such cultural dimensions as the independence-vs-interdependence continuum. In the context of rapid

globalization, however, the extent to which adolescents’ goals, beliefs and values shift and continue to reflect

culturally embedded notions has yet to be fully explored. Adolescents today, through social media and digital

technology, have a sense of shared experiences. This chapter will explore how these recent developments

affect adolescents’ values, goals and definitions of quality of life; as well as examine the extent to which

shared experience and intergroup contact mute or amplify of cultural differences in ‘traditional values’ and

socialization goals.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Dennis S. W. Wong, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong (China)

Ella Daniel, Assistant Professor in the Jaime and Joan Constantiner School of Education, Tel Aviv University

(Israel)

Chapter 15: Spirituality

Abstract: Religious pluralism and the dissemination of diverse spiritual experiences in contemporary societies

is a result – among others - of increasing globalization, social and cultural secularization, the crisis of meaning

worlds represented by organized and institutionalized religions, and proselytizing other religious or spiritual

beliefs. Research has shown that adults tend to keep and be attached more to organized religions, compared

to younger generations. On the other hand, adolescents and youth are more flexible and open to new beliefs

and experiences as they are developing their identities. However, little research has been undertaken

regarding this topic. This chapter will explore how parents socialize their children on spiritual and religious

beliefs and how adolescents develop a sense of spirituality under this context, either conforming/rejecting or

creating their own to face this new and rapidly changing socio-cultural environment.

Proposed/Potential Authors:

Sam Hardy, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University (U.S.A.)

Cem Safak Cukur, Professor in the Department of Psychology, Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi (Turkey)

Brien Ashdown, Associate Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (U.S.A).

O autorze

Yan Ruth Xia is a Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has conducted research on strengths and challenges of Asian and Asian American families with adolescents and families during social transition. Her research examines the mediating and moderating effects of contextual factors on the association of parenting, parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent outcomes, and has published extensively in these areas. Yan is the recipient of the National Council on Family Relations International Section 2020 Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies.

Maria Rosario T. de Guzman is a Professor and Extension Specialist in Adolescent Development in Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has over 20 years of experience conducting research and developing programs that address well-being and health among underserved populations, particularly for youth and families in rapidly changing contexts (e.g., migration). She has over 50 publications, including the book, “Parenting from Afar: The Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance” which received the prestigious Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association for its contribution to Psychology as a global discipline. 

Rosario Esteinou is a family sociologist and Senior Professor and Researcher at the Center of Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. She has over 30 years of experience conducting research on families in Mexico and recently in Latin America. She is the author of 2 books and has edited or coedited 6 books, and published several articles and chapters about families’ strengths; kinship; family and modernity; sociocultural and demographic patterns; parenting adolescents and children; intimacy in couple relationships; affection, emotions, and subjective wellbeing; gender inequality and violence in the family; and family-oriented policies.

Cody Stonewall Hollist is an Associate Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies where he teaches in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research is focused on supporting underserved adolescents and their families as they face trauma and crisis. He primarily works with immigrants to the U.S. and Brazilian families that are in contexts with little resources. He has over 25 years of conducting research in multiple parts of Brazil with mental health prevention and intervention programs, including working with families who have a child with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome. He has authored numerous research publications and book chapters in both English and Portuguese. In 2020 he was the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Scholar award to Brazil.

Blurb

This edited volume examines the adolescent period across multiple cultural settings, and in a range of contemporary contexts (e.g., rural-vs-urban, political unrest/war, rapid globalization). It employs a xxxx lens, while addressing traditional issues (e.g., identity development) and recently emergent ones (e.g., social media).

Containing four basic sections: 1) adolescence and families in contexts with rapidly shifting societies/norms, 2) adolescence and families in the context of socio-political crisis and upheaval, 3) adolescence and families in the context of individual stress and strain, and 4) adolescent Identity development in the family and in transition to adulthood. Contributors to this volume are leading scholars from a range of disciplines (e.g., anthropology, psychology, family science) and thus explore adolescence from multiple perspectives. Cross-cutting themes include how the broader socio-ecological background and “ecocultural niche” shape various dimensions of adolescence, how the role of the family is redefined in these various contexts and circumstances, and how adolescent resilience and family strengths are formed across a broad range of settings. Throughout, this volume highlights the continued centrality of family in the development and well-being of adolescents across the globe. This is an essential resource for practitioners and researchers who treat and study adolescents.