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Children Gradually Construct Spatial Representations of Temporal Events
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Tillman, Katharine A.; Fukuda, Eren; Barner, David – Child Development, 2022
English-speaking adults often recruit a "mental timeline" to represent events from left-to-right (LR), but its developmental origins are debated. Here, we test whether preschoolers prefer ordered linear representations of events and whether they prefer culturally conventional directions. English-speaking adults (n = 85) and 3- to…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Cultural Differences
Developmental Trajectories of Korean and Heritage Language Proficiencies and Their Association with Maladjustment among Korean Multicultural Adolescents
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Park, Jisu; Han, Yoonsun – Child Development, 2023
This study identified changes in Korean and heritage language proficiencies across five waves (2011-2015) and examined the association between linguistic acculturation trajectories and adjustment (2016) among Korean adolescents with immigrant family backgrounds (N = 1441; 51.21% female; M[subscript age(baseline)] = 9.97). All adolescents were from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Language Proficiency, Native Language
Longitudinal Change in Adolescent Hope among Recent Immigrant Latinx Adolescents: Links with Adolescent and Parent Cultural Stress, Family Functioning, Emotional Well-Being, and Behavioral Health
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Lorenzo-Blanco, Elma I.; Zhang, Minyu; Cobb, Cory; Meca, Alan; Szapocznik, José; Unger, Jennifer B.; Cano, Miguel Ángel; Schwartz, Seth J. – Child Development, 2022
Adolescent hope can promote the emotional and behavioral well-being of Latinx families. Positive family functioning may foster adolescent hope, whereas cultural stress may compromise adolescent hope and well-being. We examined how adolescent hope changed over time, and whether cultural stress and family functioning predicted emotional and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns, Immigrants
The Influence of Ethnic-Racial Identity Developmental Processes on Global Bicultural Competence Development
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Safa, M. Dalal; White, Rebecca M. B.; Knight, George P. – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated ethnic-racial identity (ERI) developmental processes (i.e., exploration and resolution) as pathways for adolescents to develop global bicultural competence, or the ability to meet heritage and host cultural demands. The sample included 749 U.S. Mexican-origin youth (30% Mexico-born; 51% male) followed from early-to-late…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Adolescents, Cultural Awareness
Meeting in School: Cultural Diversity Approaches of Teachers and Intergroup Contact among Ethnic Minority and Majority Adolescents
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Karatas, Savas; Eckstein, Katharina; Noack, Peter; Rubini, Monica; Crocetti, Elisabetta – Child Development, 2023
This study investigated the associations between cultural diversity approaches endorsed by teachers and adolescents' positive and negative intergroup contact in schools. Participants were 984 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 14.66; 62.7% female; 24.8% ethnic minority) involved in a three-wave longitudinal study between 2019 and 2020. Results…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Diversity, Cultural Influences
Different Types of Focus: Caregiver-Child Interaction and Changes in Preschool Children's Attention in Two Cultures
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Senzaki, Sawa; Shimizu, Yuki – Child Development, 2022
Social contexts shape the development of attention; however, little is known about joint attention beyond infancy. This study employed behavioral and eye-tracking measurements to investigate cultural variations in how caregivers direct 3- to 4-year-old children's attention and subsequent changes in children's attention to objects and contextual…
Descriptors: Interaction, Child Behavior, Cultural Differences, Eye Movements
Take Your Word or Tone for It? European American and Chinese Children's Attention to Emotional Cues in Speech
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Yang, Yang; Wang, Li; Wang, Qi – Child Development, 2021
Cultural experiences can influence how people attend to different emotional cues. Whereas semantic content explicitly describes feelings, vocal tone conveys implicit information regarding emotions. This cross-cultural study examined children's attention to emotional cues in spoken words. The sample consisted of 121 European American (EA) and 120…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Whites, Asians