Value of Children and Intergenerational Relations

A Replication and Extension of the 'Value-of-Children-Studies' in Relation to Generative Behavior and Parent-Child Relations

Project Coordinator:      Prof. Dr. Gisela Trommsdorff

Principal Investigators: Prof. Dr. Gisela Trommsdorff, Universität Konstanz

                                               Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nauck, Universität Chemnitz

Core Countries (financed by DFG)

• Germany: Dr. Boris Mayer (Bern), Dr. Daniela Klaus (Berlin), PD Dr. Beate Schwarz (Zürich), Dr. Isabelle Albert (Luxembourg)
• PR China: Prof. Dr. Gang Zheng, Prof. Dr. Shaohua Shi, Prof. Dr. Hong Tang
• Indonesia: Peter Nelwan, MA, Prof. Dr. Samsunuwijati Marat, Dr. Lieke Wisnubrata, Prof. Dr. Kusdwiratri Setiono
• Israel und die Palestinian National Authority: Dr. Asher Ben-Arieh, Dr. Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia
• Republic of Korea: Prof. Dr. Uichol Kim, Dr. Young-Eun Kwon, Prof. Dr. Young-Shin Park
• Turkey: Dr. Bilge Ataca & Prof. Dr. Cigdem Kagitçibasi

Further Countries (self-financed)

• Estonia: Dr. Kairi Kasearu, Mai Beilmann, MA
• France: Prof. Dr. Colette Sabatier & Prof. Dr. Lyda Lannegrand-Willems
• Ghana: Prof. Dr. David Lackland Sam & Prof. Dr. Benjamin Amponsah
• India North: Prof. Dr. Ramesh Mishra
• India South: Dr. Arun Tipandjan
• Jamaica: Dr. Ishtar Govia
• Japan: Prof. Dr. Naosuke Itoigawa, Prof. Dr. Makoto Kobayashi, Prof. Dr. Shu Fujitani, Prof. Dr. Yoshiharu Tachibana
• Poland: Dr. Katarzyna Lubiewska
• Russia: Prof. Dr. Zaretkhan Kh.-M. Saralieva, Prof. Dr. Vladimir A. Blonin, Prof. Dr. Alexandre A. Iudin
• USA: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Friedlmeier & Prof. Dr. Mihaela Friedlmeier
• South Africa: Prof. Dr. Karl Peltzer
• Taiwan: Prof. Dr. Chin-Chun Yi
• Czech Republic: Prof. Dr. Ivo Mozny & Petr Pakosta

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 Aim of the project

The goal of this DFG-financed project is to investigate a) characteristics of parent-child relations and “Value of Children” (VOC) in three familially connected generations as well as the relationship patterns of b) these characteristics within each generation and c) between these three generations d) under different cultural conditions. Thus, the "Cross-national value of children studies" (VOC Studies, 1970, University of Hawaii, Honolulu) are expanded and modified both methodically as well as theoretically by studying further questions.

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