title: Sticking out and fitting in: culture-specific predictors of 3-year-olds' autobiographical memories during joint reminiscing.
abstract: The present study investigates the relationship between mother-child interaction styles with 19 months and children's autobiographical memory with 3 years of age in two cultural contexts: New Delhi, India (n = 25) and Berlin, Germany (n = 33). Results demonstrate similarities as well as culture specificities. In both contexts, maternal elaborations during reminiscing were related to children's memory contributions. Over time, maternal support for toddlers' self-expression during free play at 19 months predicted their children's memory elaborations at 3 years in the Berlin context. In the Delhi context, toddlers' willingness to carry out their mothers' requests at 19 months predicted their memory elaborations at 3 years. These results suggest different motivational bases underlying children's autobiographical memory contributions during mother-child reminiscing related to different cultural orientations.
authors.affiliation: University of Osnabrück, Germany. lisschro@uos.de
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schröder
authors.forename: Joscha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kärtner
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Keller
authors.forename: Nandita
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chaudhary
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers; D009042:Motivation