Workshop

VALUE OF CHILDREN AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS

March 29th – 30th, 2012, Venue: Senate Hall V1001, University of Konstanz

PROGRAM

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

10.00 – 10.10

Introduction

Gisela Trommsdorff

Session 1: Value of Children - Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Chair: Boris Mayer

10.10 – 10.50

Cross-Cultural Variations in Intergenerational Ambivalence. Affection and Conflict in the Relationship of Women towards their Parents in Eighteen Areas in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America.

Bernhard Nauck

11.10 – 11.50

Boy-Preferences in India: An Attempt to Shed Light on the North-South Divide

Daniela Klaus & Arun Tipandjan

11.50 – 12.30

Do Mothers, Grandmothers and Adolescents in Germany and Poland Differ in their Ideas about Having Children or Not? A Closer Look at the Negative Value-of-Children and its Further Implications

Isabelle Albert, Gisela Trommsdorff, & Katarzyna Lubiewska 

14.00 – 14.20

Discussion

Fons J. R. van de Vijver

14.20 – 14.40

General Discussion

Session 2: Intergenerational Relations: Inter- and Intracultural Comparisons

Session 2a: Support

Chair: Beate Schwarz

14.40 – 15.2

Adolescents’ Motives to Help their Parents in Different Cultural Context – in Germany, Russia and Estonia

Kairi Kasearu & Dagmar Kutsar

15.40 – 16.20

Intergenerational Solidarity and Life Satisfaction in Middle-Aged Daughters and Mothers in Poland and USA

Wolfgang Friedlmeier & Katarzyna Lubiewska

16.20 – 16.30

Discussion

Ramesh Mishra

16.30 – 16.50

General Discussion

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Session 2b:  Attachment

Chair: Isabelle Albert

09.30 – 10.10

Mother – Child Interaction Patterns and its Influence on Attachment Security of Adolescents in Jamaica and Germany

Annekatrin Bock

10.30 – 11.00

Parenting and Attachment Intergenerational Transmission between Grandmothers, Mothers, Fathers and Adolescent Children in Different Regions of Poland

Katarzyna Lubiewska

11.00 – 11.10

Discussion

Hans-Joachim Kornadt

11.10 – 11.30

General Discussion

Session 3: Intergenerational Relations and Transmission of Values in Cross-Cultural Comparison

Chair: Wolfgang Friedlmeier

11.30 – 12.10

The Intergenerational Transmission of Value of Children in the Contemporary Chinese Family: Taiwan and China Compared

Chin-Chun Yi & Yu-Hua Chen

13.40 – 14.20

Parent-Child Value Similarity Within and Across Cultures

Daniela Barni, Ariel Knafo, Asher Ben-Arieh, & Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

14.20 – 15.00

Adolescents’ Relationship with Maternal Grandmothers in Four Cultures: The Contribution of Different Types of Intergenerational Solidarity

Mihaela Friedlmeier, Isabelle Albert, Gisela Trommsdorff, & Cigdem Kagitcibasi

15.20 – 16.00

Value of Children and Intergenerational Relationships:

Culture-Level Relations in Two Generations

Boris Mayer, Beate Schwarz, & Gisela Trommsdorff

16.00 – 16.20

Discussion

Fons J. R. van de Vijver

16.20 – 17.00

General Discussion Including Preparation of Publication

Einen Tagungsbericht, der in der "Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation" (ZSE, Heft 1/2013) erschienen ist, finden Sie hier.

Eine Publikation zu neuen Entwicklungen und aktuellen Forschungsfragen im VOC-Projekt aus der Zeitschrift "Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung" (Heft 1/2013), die auf dem Workshop beruht, ist hier erhältlich.