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Adolescents' Intergenerational Narratives across Cultures
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Reese, Elaine; Fivush, Robyn; Merrill, Natalie; Wang, Qi; McAnally, Helena – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Adolescents' intergenerational narratives--the stories they tell about their mothers' and fathers' early experiences--are an important component of their identities (Fivush & Merrill, 2016; Merrill & Fivush, 2016). This study explored adolescents' intergenerational narratives across cultures. Adolescents aged 12 to 21 from 3 cultural…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intergenerational Programs, Personal Narratives, Family (Sociological Unit)
A Comparison of American and Nepalese Children's Concepts of Freedom of Choice and Social Constraint
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Chernyak, Nadia; Kushnir, Tamar; Sullivan, Katherine M.; Wang, Qi – Cognitive Science, 2013
Recent work has shown that preschool-aged children and adults understand freedom of choice regardless of culture, but that adults across cultures differ in perceiving social obligations as constraints on action. To investigate the development of these cultural differences and universalities, we interviewed school-aged children (4-11) in Nepal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Interviews
Are Asians Forgetful? Perception, Retention, and Recall in Episodic Remembering
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Wang, Qi – Cognition, 2009
Cross-cultural studies have shown that Asians exhibit less accessibility to episodic memories than Euro-Americans. This difference is often attributed to differential cognitive and social influences on memory retention, although there have been no empirical data concerning the underlying mechanism. Three studies were conducted to examine encoding…
Descriptors: Intervals, Cultural Differences, Recall (Psychology), Social Influences
"When I Was Little": Childhood Recollections in Chinese and European Canadian Grade School Children
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Peterson, Carole; Wang, Qi; Hou, Yubo – Child Development, 2009
Recollection of early childhood experiences was investigated in 225 European Canadian and 133 Chinese children (ages 8, 11, and 14) by a memory fluency task that measured accessibility of multiple early memories and elicited the earliest memory. Younger children provided memories of events that occurred at earlier ages than older children.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cultural Differences, Memory, Whites
Autobiographical Memory in Korean, Chinese, and American Children.
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Han, Jessica Jungsook; Leichtman, Michelle D.; Wang, Qi – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Korean, Chinese, and American children were given identical free-narrative interviews about life events and were shown a narrated story. Children were then interviewed about the story. Compared to others, Americans provided more references to specific past events, more descriptives, more references to internal states, and more mentions of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Same Beginnings, Different Stories: A Comparison of American and Chinese Children's Narratives.
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Wang, Qi; Leichtman, Michelle D. – Child Development, 2000
Examined social, emotional, and cognitive characteristics of American and Chinese 6-year-olds' narratives. Found that, compared to American children, Chinese children showed greater orientation toward social engagement, greater concern with moral correctness, greater concern with authority, a less autonomous orientation, more expressions of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies