PARENTAL BELIEF SYSTEMS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION
STRATEGIES, AND CULTURAL ORIENTATION IN THE
MOTHER-CHILD INTERACTIVE
CONTEXT:
a comparative study of two Costa Rican samples
Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of
Cultural and Developmental Psychology, University of Osnabrück in Partial
Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor in Sciences (Rer.Nat.)
by
Mariano Rosabal-Coto
San José, Costa Rica
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. HEIDI KELLER
Co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. SIEGFRIED GREIF
NOVEMBER, 2004