Parents and Caregivers Across Cultures (PDF)

Brien K. Ashdown, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences and an affiliated faculty member of the Latin American Studies Program at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, USA. He graduated with his doctorate in cultural and developmental psychology from Saint Louis University in 2009 (with a doctoral minor in research methods and statistics), and spent two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks before moving to Hobart & William Smith. He regularly teaches courses in cultural psychology (including Introduction to Cultural Psychology, Topics/Seminar in Cultural Psychology, and Research Methods in Cultural Psychology), Adolescent Development, Statistics and Design, and Introductory Psychology.



He has authored or co-authored nearly 30 empirical articles and book chapters, and been an author on more than 60 conference talks and posters. He's a formal Participating Member of the Rohner Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, and received early career awards from both Division 52 (International Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. Finally, he currently serves as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (2019), president-elect of the International Society for Interpersonal-Acceptance Rejection, and the Executive Director of Education for the Children USA.






Amanda N. Faherty, B.A., is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology in the Hiatt School of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, MA, USA. She is currently working under the mentorship of Dr. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Ph.D. Her research investigates broad and microlevel sociocontextual influences on the parent-emerging adult (EA) child relationship and development during emerging adulthood with particular emphasis on culture. In two complementary lines of research, she examines a)