Mother-child pairs in a small Mexican town and in Los Angeles, California, were observed in two experimental situations in which the mother either controlled the rewards given to the child for success or failure, or selected achievement goals for the child. The children from Mexico were found much less competitive, less rivalrous, and more…

Five- and seven-year-old English and Spanish speaking children were tested on short term memory, perceptual matching, and referential communication tasks to determine the relationship between linguistic coordination and language group. English speakers had significantly lower performance on the communication and perceptual tasks. (Author/APM)

Tested the hypothesis that a consequence of increased urbanization is increased competitiveness. Measured Mexican children's preferred responses to conflict. Results did not support the urban-rural dichotomy but suggested the need for a more differentiated classification of the social ecology of settings. (Author/MK)

Tests of cognitive style and questionnaires on socialization practices and Mexican-American family values were administered to children and their mothers in three Mexican-American communities in southern California. Subjects from the "traditional" community which was most identified with the sociocultural premises of Mexican culture were…

Found that increasing generation level was associated with decreasing frequency of altruism/group-enhancenment and equality choices and increasing frequency of rivalry/superiority choices, supporting an acculturation to the majority rather than acculturation to the barrio model. (Author/AM)

When shown drawings that depicted children of different racial/ethnic groups as victims of a minor mishap, White children found it funnier to see children of other groups victimized in humor than children of their own group. Blacks and Mexican Americans had no humor preferences concerning the victim's racial affiliation. (Author/MJL)

Tested the hypothesis that differences in cooperative-competitive social behavior between Anglo-Americans and Mexican Americans is a result of larger family size among the latter group. Found that, even after controlling for number of siblings and birth order, statistically significant differences in such behavior remained between the two groups.…

The relative saliency of social comparison and anxiety reduction as motives for interpersonal affiliation was examined in nearly 100 Chicano and Anglo adolescents. The experiment's failure to replicate the findings of Darley and Aronson was probably due to lack of functional equivalence across cultural groups. (Author/GC)

In a two-person experimental task used in the study of age and cultural differences in the cooperative-competitive behavior of children in a small Mexican town and in California, a higher level of cooperation was seen among Mexican than among Anglo children, as was also an increase in nonadaptive competition with age among the latter. (RJ)

Results of this study indicate that United States children are more causally oriented than Mexican children--sixth graders more than fourth graders, and advantaged children more than disadvantaged ones. (DM)

Studied the structure and personality correlates of affect among predominantly Mexican university students using a list of Spanish affect terms and a Spanish translation of the Big Five personality dimensions. Results were compared with those from previous research in other countries. There was sufficient support for cross-cultural compatibility…

It was found that from second to third generation, Mexican American children increasingly approach Anglo American norms with respect to field independence, reading achievement, and math achievement. Opposite trends were obtained with respect to self esteem; no significant effects were found with regard to locus of control. (Author/AM)

This study investigates attribution of responsibility in a rigorous factorial design involving ethnicity, sex, and age. The cultural factor was highly significant. Explanations for the strong findings are suggested in terms of different family structures among minority groups as well as their subordinate status within the U.S. (Author/AM)

As predicted, Anglo American children are significantly more field independent, higher on in achievement, and tend to be higher on in power; Mexican American children tend to be higher on in affiliation. (Author)

Assesses perceptions of 28 Spanish-speaking and 17 English-speaking Mexican American couples of the stereotypes that they believe Anglo-Americans ascribe to them. Examined the degree of subjects' perceptions as a function of (1) subject gender, (2) level of education, (3) language spoken, and (4) ethnic self-identification. (Author/LHW)