Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries
Primal world beliefs ("primals") capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and United States reported neighborhood danger, socioeconomic status, parental warmth, harsh parenting, psychological control, and autonomy granting from ages 8 to 16 years. At age 22 years, original child participants reported their primal world beliefs. Parental warmth during childhood and adolescence significantly predicted Good, Safe, and Enticing world beliefs, but other experiences were only weakly related to primals. We did not find that primals are strongly related to intuitive aspects of the materiality of childhood experiences, which suggests future directions for understanding the origins of primals.
Authors
- Paul Oburu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0711-509X)
- Kirby D. Deater-Deckard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-2152)
- Emma Sorbring (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3328-6538)
- Laurence Steinberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2627-3635)
- Liliana María Uribe Tirado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3218-0187)
- Daranee Junla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1262-7823)
- Suha M. Al‐Hassan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1034-3026)
- Lei Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6457-0254)
- Laura Gorla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5939-3134)
- Kenneth A. Dodge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5932-215X)
- Laura Di Giunta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2578-8610)
- Marc H. Bornstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-8427)
- Jeremy D. W. Clifton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3185-3105)
- W. Andrew Rothenberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1739-9041)
- Ann T. Skinner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8083-9487)
- Dario Bacchini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6140-9377)
- Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1687-0006)
- Liane Peña Alampay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5760-6711)
- Jennifer E. Lansford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1956-4917)
- Sevtap Gurdal
- Concetta Pastorelli
Institutions
- University West (SE)
- United Nations Children's Fund (US)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (GB)
- University of Miami (US)
- Duke University (US)
- King Abdulaziz University (SA)
- Maseno University (KE)
- Ateneo de Manila University (PH)
- University of Macau (MO)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (AE)
- Abu Dhabi Health Services (AE)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (US)
- Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogota (CO)
- Chiang Mai University (TH)
- City University of Macau (MO)
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Temple University (US)
- Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Child Development
- Published
- 2025-04-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14233
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.92
Funders
- Templeton Religion Trust
- Fogarty International Center
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development