A. How Does Culture Influence Development
A How does culture influence development? In interaction, social experience may serve a dual role by directing children toward an awareness of the mind and its properties. Additionally, it provides information as to what factors are important when contemplating the mind of another in the child's immediate social world. Culture mediates understanding of the world helps ensure that meaning and mental understanding are shared by people who have regular contact. This facilitates coordinated social action that is instrumental to individual and social survival. A sociocultural theory of mind would consider this development as a fundamentally social and cultural process that reflects the coordination of biological capabilities and constraints with
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Ones religious values and beliefs guide their moral thinking and behavior, beginning from concrete images of god in childhood to internalization of conventional faith in adolescence to soul searching in adulthood and eventually a progression to a more universal perspective on faith in middle age and beyond. Religious affiliation functions as a protective factor against delinquent behavior. Researchers have noted that religious youths are less likely to be involved with abuse of marijuana and steroids and to drive under the influence of alcohol. For minority youths, religion was shown to be associated with increased participation rates in abstinence programs. Other risk-taking behaviors were also influenced by religion. Reduction in substance abuse and increased participation in abstinence programs are likely tied to other findings showing that religious youths both are less likely to engage in premarital sex and report lower rates of delinquency and violence. Religion not only seems to help protect adolescents from problem behavior, but it also seems to promote health-related outcomes and prosocial behavior. Academic and social competences are both associated with religious participation and a corresponding value orientation. Religious adolescents cope more effectively with stress compared with their nonreligious peers identified differences in developmental resources between religiously active youths and their nonactive peers.
Ones religious values and beliefs guide their moral thinking and behavior, beginning from concrete images of god in childhood to internalization of conventional faith in adolescence to soul searching in adulthood and eventually a progression to a more universal perspective on faith in middle age and beyond. Religious affiliation functions as a protective factor against delinquent behavior. Researchers have noted that religious youths are less likely to be involved with abuse of marijuana and steroids and to drive under the influence of alcohol. For minority youths, religion was shown to be associated with increased participation rates in abstinence programs. Other risk-taking behaviors were also influenced by religion. Reduction in substance abuse and increased participation in abstinence programs are likely tied to other findings showing that religious youths both are less likely to engage in premarital sex and report lower rates of delinquency and violence. Religion not only seems to help protect adolescents from problem behavior, but it also seems to promote health-related outcomes and prosocial behavior. Academic and social competences are both associated with religious participation and a corresponding value orientation. Religious adolescents cope more effectively with stress compared with their nonreligious peers identified differences in developmental resources between religiously active youths and their nonactive peers.