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Concepts of Mother-Infant Interaction in Greece and Germany

University of Osnabrueck

Zaira Papaligoura

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Petra Kuensemueller

University of Osnabrueck

Susanne Voelker

University of Osnabrueck

Christina Papaeliou

University of the Aegean

Arnold Lohaus

University of Marburg

Bettina Lamm

University of Osnabrueck

Theano Kokkinaki

University of Crete

Evangelia Chrysikou

Temple University

Vicky Mousouli

Michigan State University

This study deals with parenting from a cultural perspective. Based on Kagitcibasi's model of the autonomous relational self, the authors analyzed Greek urban middle-class mothers' parenting strategies and compared them with German urban middle-class mothers' parenting styles. Interactional behaviors were assessed during videotaped, free-play home observations. It was assumed that urban middle-class Greek and German mothers do not differ in their display of face-to-face context and object stimulation, both considered as sup-porting an independent agency, that Greek mothers modulate the face-to-face context more with facial warmth than do German mothers who on the other hand, modulate their face-to-face behavior more with experiences of contingency than do Greek mothers. The data confirm our assumptions with the exception of baby talk as a second indicator of facial warmth. The data are interpreted in terms of foundations of socialization pathways of urban families in independent and interrelated societies without denying intracultural variability.

Key Words: parenting • contingency • warmth • independence • socialization

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 6, 677-689 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022103257035


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