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Koplik, Elissa K.; DeVito, Anthony J. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1986
College freshmen of both sexes in the classes of 1976 and 1986 were compared on the basis of individual items (problems) reported on a checklist. Results focus on class and sex differences in personal development, living conditions, social activities, social, personal, and interpersonal relations, home and family, morals, adjustment to college,…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education

Robinson, Clyde C.; Anderson, Genan T.; Porter, Christin L.; Hart, Craig, H.; Wouden-Miller, Melissa – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2003
Explored the simultaneous sequential transition patterns of preschoolers' social play within classroom settings. Found that the proportion of social-play states did not vary during play episodes even when accounting for type of activity center, gender, and SES. Found a reciprocal relationship between parallel-aware and other social-play states…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Peer Relationship, Play

Facio, Alicia; Micocci, Fabiana – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
Examined conceptions of emerging adulthood among Argentinians in their middle twenties. Found wide support for individualistic criteria for adulthood, but also criteria suggesting more collectivistic values. Identified gender, social class origin, and educational attainment differences. Concluded that emerging adulthood is a distinct developmental…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Stages

Bar-Yam, Miriam; And Others – American Journal of Education, 1980
Kohlberg's moral dilemmas were used to determine levels of moral reasoning among 115 adolescents representing urban middle class and lower class, kibbutz-born and Youth Aliyah (disadvantaged urban youth educated in the kibbutz), Moslem and Christian groups in Israel. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment

MacPhee, David – 1980
The reliability and validity of three measures of infant temperament were compared in this study. The measures included the revised Carey (1978) Infant Temperament Questionnaire, a version of the Bayley (1969) Infant Behavior Record revised for completion by the parent, and a modified version of Buss and Plomin's (1975) EASI, an acronym standing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Factor Structure, Individual Differences

Poole, Millicent E.; Cooney, George H. – Australian Journal of Education, 1985
The personal possibilities that 15-year-olds in Australia and Singapore perceived in relation to their career and leisure pursuits were examined. The extent to which both awareness of options and a consideration of multiple options for self were associated with culture, gender, and class was considered. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Comparative Analysis

Oke, Meera; Khattar, Archna; Pant, Prarthana; Saraswathi, T. S. – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1999
Observed universal and culturally specific features of play conditioned by ecological factors, social class, and gender in India. Found that, although ecological constraints conspired against the urban child's natural propensity to play with joyous spontaneity, there were also conscious community endeavors to create play environments. Children…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Children, Community Programs
Kesselman, Mark – 1979
This research concerned political socialization in the early grades in two elementary schools with particular attention to differential socialization of middle and lower class children, and boys and girls. The research focused on authority patterns, teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil behavior streams and interaction, how teachers present the outside…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discipline, Elementary School Students, Political Attitudes

Verma, Suman; Sharma, Deepali – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
Used the experience sampling method to examine Indian adolescents' use of free time. Found that adolescents' free time use was influenced by both tradition and modernization, and varied according to social class, urban versus rural setting, and gender. Concluded that youth activities continue to reflect the sociocultural and historical nature of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect

Feldman, S. Shirley; Turner, Rebecca A.; Araujo, Katy – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1999
Examined whether relationship seriousness influenced youths' sexual behaviors and attitudes. Found that interpersonal context influenced sexual timetables of whites more than other groups. Some ethnic differences in sexual timetables were diminished when sociodemographic factors were controlled. Youth generally began sexual activities with a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Asian Americans, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Dolphin, Carol Zinner – 1987
Edward Hall's long accepted theories of proxemics, developed in the mid-sixties of this century, promoted the idea that culture plays the definitive role in determining how different individuals use personal space. Contact cultures, inhabited by people who are comfortable with touching and close contact, include those of Arabia, Latin America, and…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Crowding

Brophy, Jere; Alleman, Janet – Cognition and Instruction, 2003
This interview study gathered information about the prior knowledge and thinking of kindergarten to third- graders regarding the supply of water, heat, and light to modern homes. Findings indicated that students possessed only limited and spotty knowledge about utilities in modern homes. Within general trends, there was evidence of growth in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Schwartz, Audrey James – 1969
Value orientations and academic achievement of Mexican American and Anglo public school youth were studied with regard to (1) differences between Mexican American and Anglo values; (2) value differences within the Mexican American pupil subpopulation; and (3) the relationship between value orientations and academic achievement of Mexican American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Anglo Americans, Comparative Analysis
Hausken, Elvira Germino; Rathbun, Amy H. – 2002
Noting that the kindergarten year is important in establishing competencies critical to children's success and achievement in school, and the lack of information on how children make the transition to kindergarten, this study examined differences in parental reports of children's adjustment behaviors for a large, nationally representative sample…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Childhood Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Disabilities

Child Development, 2000
Examined how child care experiences related to cognitive and language development from birth through age 3. Found that care quality was modestly related to cognitive and language outcomes, after adjusting for several factors. Cumulative experience in center-based care related to better outcomes than did experience in other care. Children in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Early Experience
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