The role of parenting styles during infancy and narrating styles with three years old children for the development of children`s autobiographical memory in India and Germany

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Heidi Keller
• Co-Applicant: Dr. Nandita Chaudhary
• Subject Area: Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Term: from 2003 to 2006
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5406779

This proposal deals with the role of culture for children's early development. Divergent social orientations have been described for different cultures: independence with an emphasis on a unique, self contained, autonomous and separated self and interdependence with a bounded, interconnected and harmonious self. Different parenting styles during infancy have been described as informed by these social orientations. Also divergent narrating styles have been identified across cultures. Relations between maternal narrating styles and children's autobiographical memory have also been reported. This study links for the first time maternal parenting styles with three months old infants and maternal narrating styles with three year old children to children's autobiographical memory in a longitudinal design.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: India