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Joshi, Mary Sissons; MacLean, Morag – Child Development, 1994
Examined young British and Indian children's ability to distinguish between real and apparent emotion in response to stories involving child-adult and child-child interactions. Found that the younger Indian girls performed better than the younger British girls. Other age, gender, and cultural effects suggest a more social model of the…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
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Long, Barbara H.; And Others – Child Development, 1970
Results of cross-cultural comparisons of verbal responses indicate that social desirability has a higher value for Indian adolescents and activity has a greater value for American adolescents. Greater sex differences in self-perception occurred for Americans, and greater cultural differences for boys. (WY)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Psycholinguistics
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Evans, Gary W.; Lepore, Stephen J.; Shejwal, B. R.; Palsane, M. N. – Child Development, 1998
Examined the connection between chronic residential crowding and student adjustment, academic achievement, vulnerability to learned helplessness, blood pressure, and parent-child relationship in 10- to 12-year olds in urban India. Found that crowding was positively associated with blood pressure only among boys, and with learned helplessness only…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Behavior, Children, Crowding