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Overview

Sombat Tapanya is affiliated with Chiang Mai University in Thailand and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and social sciences, with a focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, and education. Their work primarily explores child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Some of the recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Sombat Tapanya include:

  • Effects of Parental Warmth and Behavioral Control on Adolescent Externalizing and Internalizing Trajectories Across Cultures, 2020, Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • Effects of Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Longitudinal, Multicultural Study, 2021, Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Longitudinal associations between mothers' and fathers' anger/irritability expressiveness, harsh parenting, and adolescents' socioemotional functioning in nine countries, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Examination of Links between Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Psychological Problems in 12 Cultural Groups, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Parent-adolescent relationship quality as a moderator of links between COVID-19 disruption and reported changes in mothers' and young adults' adjustment in five countries, 2021, Developmental Psychology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Ann T. Skinner
  • Jennifer E. Lansford
  • Marc H. Bornstein
  • Kirby Deater-Deckard
  • Laura Di Giunta

Their contributions are often published in journals that include:

  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Aggressive Behavior

In terms of disciplinary focus, Sombat Tapanya's publications significantly contribute to the fields of psychology and social sciences, with 54 and 36 publications respectively. Within these fields, their work spans subfields such as clinical psychology, social psychology, education, safety research, and sociology and political science.

Best Publications

  • Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang;Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone

  • Synchrony in the Onset of Mental-State Reasoning: Evidence From Five Cultures

    Tara Callaghan;Philippe Rochat;Angeline Lillard;Mary Louise Claux

  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation.

    Laurence Steinberg;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Elizabeth P. Shulman;Kaitlyn Breiner

  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World

    Natasha Duell;Laurence Steinberg;Grace Icenogle;Jason Chein

  • Boys’ and Girls’ Relational and Physical Aggression in Nine Countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Ann T. Skinner;Emma Sorbring;Laura Di Giunta

  • Corporal punishment, maternal warmth, and child adjustment: a longitudinal study in eight countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Chinmayi Sharma;Patrick S. Malone;Darren Woodlief

  • Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender

    Jennifer E Lansford;Liane Peña Alampay;Suha M Al-Hassan;Dario Bacchini

  • The association between parental warmth and control in thirteen cultural groups.

    Kirby Deater-Deckard;Jennifer E. Lansford;Patrick S. Malone;Liane Peña Alampay

  • Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.

    Kenneth A. Dodge;Patrick S. Malone;Jennifer E. Lansford;Emma Sorbring

  • Positive parenting and children’s prosocial behavior in eight countries.

    Concetta Pastorelli;Jennifer E. Lansford;Bernadette Paula Luengo Kanacri;Patrick S. Malone

  • Perceived mother and father acceptance-rejection predict four unique aspects of child adjustment across nine countries.

    Diane L. Putnick;Marc H. Bornstein;Jennifer E. Lansford;Patrick S. Malone

  • Mother and father socially desirable responding in nine countries: Two kinds of agreement and relations to parenting self-reports.

    Marc H. Bornstein;Diane L. Putnick;Jennifer E. Lansford;Concetta Pastorelli

  • Agreement in Mother and Father Acceptance-Rejection, Warmth, and Hostility/Rejection/Neglect of Children across Nine Countries.

    Diane L. Putnick;Marc H. Bornstein;Jennifer E. Lansford;Lei Chang

  • Longitudinal Associations between Parenting and Youth Adjustment in Twelve Cultural Groups: Cultural Normativeness of Parenting as a Moderator.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Jennifer Godwin;Suha M. Al-Hassan;Dario Bacchini

  • Adolescents' cognitive capacity reaches adult levels prior to their psychosocial maturity: Evidence for a "maturity gap" in a multinational, cross-sectional sample.

    Grace Icenogle;Laurence Steinberg;Natasha Duell;Jason Chein

  • 'A Day in the Life': advancing a methodology for the cultural study of development and learning in early childhood.

    Julia Gillen;Catherine Ann Cameron;Sombat Tapanya;Giuliana Pinto

  • Children’s perceptions of maternal hostility as a mediator of the link between discipline and children’s adjustment in four countries:

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Patrick S. Malone;Kenneth A. Dodge;Lei Chang

  • Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries.

    Jennifer E. Lansford;W. Andrew Rothenberg;Todd M. Jensen;Melissa A. Lippold

  • Individual, Family, and Culture Level Contributions to Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Longitudinal Study in Nine Countries

    Jennifer E. Lansford;Jennifer Godwin;Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado;Arnaldo Zelli

  • Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries

    Lei Chang;Hui Jing Lu;Jennifer E. Lansford;Ann T. Skinner

Frequent Co-Authors

Suha M. Al-Hassan
Suha M. Al-Hassan Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Jennifer E. Lansford
Jennifer E. Lansford Duke University
Concetta Pastorelli
Concetta Pastorelli Sapienza University of Rome
Lei Chang
Lei Chang University of Macau
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Ann T. Skinner
Ann T. Skinner Duke University
Laura Di Giunta
Laura Di Giunta Sapienza University of Rome
Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University
Kirby Deater-Deckard
Kirby Deater-Deckard University of Massachusetts Amherst
Liane Peña Alampay
Liane Peña Alampay Ateneo de Manila University

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