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Direct linkMou, Yi; Lin, Carolyn A. – SAGE Open, 2020
Heavy episodic drinking among college students is a common but scarcely researched public health problem in China. Although social drinking could be regarded as an enjoyable activity across cultures, the Chinese cultural belief about alcohol use is different from that of its Western counterpart, which has been richly evidenced in the research…
Descriptors: Drinking, Longitudinal Studies, College Students, Predictor Variables
Gustavsen, Ann Margareth – Cogent Education, 2017
Previous studies found that girls have higher academic achievement than boys in most school subjects. Teachers' grading of academic achievement seems to be based not only on students' knowledge but also their social skills, and teachers tend to assess girls as having better social skills than boys. The main aim of this study was to examine through…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Interpersonal Competence, Academic Achievement, Teacher Attitudes
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
Download full textYamamoto, Yoko; Holloway, Susan D.; Suzuki, Sawako – School Community Journal, 2016
In spite of evidence indicating the benefits of parental engagement for children's achievement, little is known about the factors that contribute to parental engagement in countries outside the United States. In this study, we addressed this gap in the literature by examining teachers' outreach in addition to maternal psychological elements…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Parent Role
Rienties, Bart; Luchoomun, Dharma; Tempelaar, Dirk – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
In Europe there is a growing concern among educators and policy makers that students are not well-prepared to start a Master programme. This study draws on longitudinal research conducted at four universities in the Netherlands and a follow-up exploratory purposively chosen from one of the study sites. In Study 1, differences in academic…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Social Integration, Foreign Students
Carr, Themba; Lord, Catherine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the stability of mothers' perceptions of the negative impact of having a child with ASD in a sample of African American and Caucasian families as their children transitioned to early adolescence. Participants were mothers and children participating in an ongoing longitudinal study of children referred for…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Furnes, Bjarte; Samuelsson, Stefan – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
The importance of cognitive and language skills on reading and spelling development were investigated in a cross-linguistic longitudinal study of 737 English-speaking children (US/Australia) and 169 Scandinavian children (Norway/Sweden) from preschool to Kindergarten and Grade 1. The results revealed that phonological awareness and print knowledge…
Descriptors: Spelling, Early Reading, Linguistics, Phonological Awareness
Corwyn, Robert F.; Bradley, Robert H. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), the authors investigate whether four groups of Asian Americans (Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and South East Asian) show comparable scores on variables that past studies have found to be related to academic achievement and whether these variables similarly predict academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 8, Asian Americans, Ethnic Stereotypes
Baer, Judith C.; Schmitz, Mark F. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study examined gender, family structure, SES and language usage as predictors of cultural orientation and family cohesion. Ethnic differences in trajectories of family cohesion were tested within a hierarchical linear modeling framework. The sample consisted of 4156 adolescent respondents, measured at three time points during three…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Family Structure, Mexican Americans
Wang, Qian; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Chen, Huichang – Child Development, 2007
This research compared the effects over time of parents' control and autonomy support on children's functioning in the United States and China. American and Chinese (N = 806) seventh graders (mean age = 12.73 years) participated in a 6-month longitudinal study. Children reported on their parents' psychological control, psychological autonomy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Psychology, Parent Role
Okamoto, Dina G. – Social Forces, 2006
In the wake of the civil rights movement, new organizations formed which were based on the collective interests and identities of their constituencies. Some of these organizations brought together national origin groups who often differed by ethnicity, language, culture, religion and immigration history. In this paper, I focus on the conditions…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Asian Americans, Organizations (Groups), Organizational Theories
Peer reviewedLevy-Schiff, Rachel – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Examined multiple prenatal antecedents and postnatal correlates of change in marital adjustment and satisfaction in 102 couples from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Fathers' caregiving, play, and affiliative behaviors were the most powerful, positive predictors for adjustment in both spouses. Additional positive predictors for women were…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Influences
Peer reviewedArtiles, Alfredo J.; Aguirre-Munoz, Zenaida; Abedi, Jamal – Exceptional Children, 1998
A study used data from the National Education Longitudinal Study to identify predictors of placement for eighth-grade ethnic-minority students (n=3,439) in learning-disability (LD) programs. Results found that although some factors predicted placement in LD programs for all ethnic groups, placement predictors also varied by student ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Family Influence, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedShye, Samuel – American Educational Research Journal, 1980
Guttman Smallest Space Analysis was applied to 51 variables collected on 850 children in 48 Israeli schools, grades 4 through 9. Mapping sentences were derived for defining achievement orientation. Relations among components of the structure were weaker for students of eastern origin than for those of western origin. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedChen, Chuansheng; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1996
Ten years after initial participation by 729 American, Chinese, and Japanese first graders and their mothers, interviews and achievement tests completed by 475 students from this sample found high stability of achievement relationships among all three societies. Associations between early predictors and achievement were similar for all groups.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Cultural Differences
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