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Gabbatore, Ilaria; Dindar, Katja; Pirinen, Veera; Vähänikkilä, Hannu; Mämmelä, Laura; Kotila, Aija; Bosco, Francesca M.; Leinonen, Eeva; Loukusa, Soile – First Language, 2023
Effective communication is a fundamental aspect of children's daily living, enabling interaction with adults and peers. A rich literature suggests that communicative abilities develop with age, while little is known about cross-cultural differences and similarities. This study presents a comparison of the communicative performance of Finnish (n =…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Communication Skills
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Oner, Ozgur; Munir, Kerim M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
The study assessed the feasibility of using a Turkish-version of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised (M-CHAT-R/F) as a screening tool for an urban low risk population of young children. M-CHAT-R/F was completed for 6712 children between ages 16 and 36 months living in Istanbul, Turkey. Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Check Lists, Toddlers, Screening Tests
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Di Giunta, Laura; Rothenberg, W. Andrew; Lunetti, Carolina; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Eisenberg, Nancy; Thartori, Eriona; Basili, Emanuele; Favini, Ainzara; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Peña Alampay, Liane; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria – Developmental Psychology, 2020
The present study examines parents' self-efficacy about anger regulation and irritability as predictors of harsh parenting and adolescent children's irritability (i.e., mediators), which in turn were examined as predictors of adolescents' externalizing and internalizing problems. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (N = 1,298 families) from 12…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Luescher, Raphael; Barthelmess, Petra Young-Zie; Kim, Su-Yeong; Richter, Ulf Henning; Mittag, Michael – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2019
This study analyzes the validity of Gough's Creative Personality Scale (CPS) for the Adjective Check List (ACL) by using 1773 Swiss, South Korean, and Mainland Chinese students as a sample. Four sources of potential bias were identified in Gough's CPS, two of which are general and two cultural in nature. The two general biases were investigated by…
Descriptors: Creativity, Personality Measures, Form Classes (Languages), Check Lists
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Bayri, N.; Koksal, M. S.; Ertekin, P. – Science Education International, 2016
The purpose of this study is to investigate gifted middle school students' images about scientists in terms of cultural similarity. Sample of the study is 64 gifted middle school students taking courses from a formal school for gifted students. The data were collected by using Draw-a-scientist (DAST) instrument and was analysed by two researchers…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Middle School Students, Scientists, Freehand Drawing
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Moser, Thomas; Reikerås, Elin – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
This article discusses motor-life-skills in a sample (n?=?1083) of 33 months (2.9-year-old) children in Norwegian early childhood education and care institutions (ECEC-institutions) and to compare the findings with the results from a similar British sample. The Early Years Movement Skills Checklist (EYMSC) (Chambers and Sugden 2006) was applied.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Psychomotor Skills, Comparative Analysis
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Liu, Shujie; Keeley, Jared; Buskist, William – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
We "employed the Teacher Behavior Checklist" (TBC) to investigate Chinese college students' perceptions of excellent teachers' qualities and then compared the results to those from previously collected data from American and Japanese students. Chinese students tended to favor additional structure both in the classroom and in teachers'…
Descriptors: Asians, Student Attitudes, College Students, Teacher Behavior
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Alampay, Liane Peña; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana M. Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
There is strong evidence of a positive association between corporal punishment and negative child outcomes, but previous studies have suggested that the manner in which parents implement corporal punishment moderates the effects of its use. This study investigated whether severity and justness in the use of corporal punishment moderate the…
Descriptors: Punishment, Justice, Incidence, Child Behavior
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Mrayat, Ahmad – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper aims at investigating the negative particles and morphemes in three main Jordanian dialects (Urban, Rural and Bedouin). This quantitative and qualitative study includes 30 teachers from different disciplines who use these dialects. The sample of the study was selected randomly. The research used two research instruments, a checklist and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Semitic Languages, Morphemes
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
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Liu, Shujie; Keeley, Jared; Buskist, William – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
Researchers have found that students from different academic disciplines tend to value different qualities in their teachers, and cultural differences play a role in which qualities students appreciate in their professors. The present/current study employed the Teacher Behavior Checklist as an operationalization of teaching qualities in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Context Effect
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Holsen, Ingrid; Geldhof, John; Larsen, Torill; Aardal, Elisabeth – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
As the field of positive youth development (PYD) emerges internationally, models of PYD designed for use in the US must be extended to diverse contexts. For instance, a robust body of evidence supports Lerner and colleagues' Five Cs Model of PYD in the US, but it remains unclear whether the Five Cs Model can validly capture positive development in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Secondary School Students, Cross Cultural Studies
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Markic, Silvija; Eilks, Ingo; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; Hugerat, Muhamad; Kortam, Naji; Dkeidek, Iyad; Hofstein, Avi – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This paper presents a study focusing on differences in Israeli Jewish and Arab chemistry teachers' beliefs regarding teaching and learning of chemistry in the upper secondary schools. Israel is a country experiencing the problems of diverse cultural orientation of its inhabitants but applying the same educational system to its diverse cultural…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes
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Sebre, Sandra B.; Jusiene, Roma; Dapkevice, Egle; Skreitule-Pikse, Inga; Bieliauskaite, Rasa – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
The aim of the present study was to examine associations between parenting and child behaviour problems in two neighbouring countries with subtle, yet apparent cultural differences. Participants were mothers and fathers of preschool-age children from Latvia and Lithuania. Parents completed a measure of child-rearing attitudes and reported on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship
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Al Soudi, Layth – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper aims to investigate the use of connotations of inanimate objects to describe people by speakers of Jordanian Arabic. Its main goal is to analyze the positive and negative connotative meanings of inanimate object used to describe people in Jordan. Besides, the contribution of gender in making connotative meanings. The study provides a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Language Research, Pragmatics
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