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Wei, Jun; Sze, Irene Nga-Lam; Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This research examined the idea that children's inferences about their parents' goals for them is a possible mechanism by which parents' responses to their children's performance contribute to children's psychological functioning. American (N = 447; M[subscript age] = 13.24 years; 49% girls; 95% European American) and Chinese (N = 439; M[subscript…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Responses, Parenting Styles
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Wu, Ruey-Jiuan Regina – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Drawing on a corpus of 35 hours of videotaped face-to-face conversations collected in Beijing and Hebei, China, this conversation analytic study examines self-praising behavior of Mandarin speakers in everyday social interaction. Focusing on two reporting practices--reporting another's words and reporting "just the facts"--the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Mandarin Chinese
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Falbo, Toni; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1997
Demonstrates that East Asian children (EAC) do engage in some forms of self-enhancing illusions. Responses from 4,000 elementary school students reveal EACs see themselves as possessing more positive attributes than others. Variations in self-enhancing illusions were found for age, gender, and region of residence. Results are discussed in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Positive Reinforcement