Dario Bacchini

TL;DR: Interviews were conducted with mother-child dyads in China, India, Italy, Kenya, the Philippines, and Thailand to examine whether normativeness of physical discipline moderates the link between mothers' use of physical Discipline and children's adjustment.

TL;DR: Testing in an international sample of more than 5000 individuals between ages 10 and 30 years from 11 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas finds that sensation seeking increased between preadolescence and late adolescence, peaked at age 19, and declined thereafter, whereas self-regulation increased steadily from preadolescentence into young adulthood, reaching a plateau between ages 23 and 26.

TL;DR: Despite mean-level differences in relational and physical aggression across countries, the findings provided support for cross-country similarities in associations between relational andPhysical aggression as well as links between gender and aggression.

TL;DR: Overall, risk taking followed the hypothesized inverted-U pattern across age groups, with health risk taking evincing the latest peak and age patterns in risk taking propensity were more consistent across countries than age pattern in real-world risk taking.

TL;DR: Clinicians across countries should advise parents against using corporal punishment, even in the context of parent–child relationships that are otherwise warm, and should assist parents in finding other ways to manage children's behaviors.