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Cozart, Deanna L.; Rojewski, Jay W. – SAGE Open, 2015
There are more Chinese student-scholars than any other group of international students studying in the United States. Despite this, there are relatively few studies that have focused on specific educational needs and required career support services for Chinese international students. This exploratory study was conducted to determine the…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Students, Cultural Differences, Occupational Aspiration
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Tynan, Joshua J.; Somers, Cheryl L.; Gleason, Jamie H.; Markman, Barry S.; Yoon, Jina – School Psychology International, 2015
With Bronfenbrenner's (1977) ecological theory and other multifactor models (e.g. Pianta, 1999; Prinstein, Boergers, & Spirito, 2001) underlying this study design, the purpose was to examine, simultaneously, key variables in multiple life contexts (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem levels) for their individual and combined roles in predicting…
Descriptors: Arabs, North Americans, Risk, Goal Orientation
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Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2008
The paradoxical findings about students' mathematics self-concept and academic achievement shown in international and comparative studies prompt this exploration of the function and development of mathematics self-concept. That is, when examining data within individual countries, a positive relationship exists between students' self-concept and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Comparative Analysis, North Americans
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Eng, Sothy; Kanitkar, Kirti; Cleveland, Harrington H.; Herbert, Richard; Fischer, Judith; Wiersma, Jacquelyn D. – Educational Psychology, 2008
The general belief that Asian American adolescents are successful has led researchers to ignore variations in Asian adolescents' academic success. Using samples of Chinese and Filipino adolescents drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined whether differences between these two groups in acculturation,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Parent Child Relationship