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Lei, Jing; Zhou, Jingye; Wang, Qiu – Computers in the Schools, 2009
Based on data collected from middle school students in a U.S. school (N = 159) and a Chinese school (N = 183), this study compared Internet use in school and at home between American students and Chinese students, explored what affected students' use of the Internet, and examined how students' Internet use related to their learning. Results reveal…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Internet
Naftali, Orna – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2010
This study explores two aspects of the privatization of childhood in contemporary urban China: the emergent discourse on children's privacy and children's growing seclusion within the home. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the author describes urban caregivers' engagement with the issue of children's privacy, and argues that we are now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Urban Areas, Privacy
Markose, Susan; Hellsten, Meeri – Language and Education, 2009
This article investigates the home literacy practices of two immigrant families, one each of Lebanese and Chinese descent. It explores the consequences of mismatches between home and school literacy practices in relation to mainstream academic outcomes. Two mothers of the families in this study are interviewed about their beliefs and parenting…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Migrant Children, Literacy, Immigrants
Camras, Linda; Kolmodin, Karen; Chen, Yinghe – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
This study compared Mainland Chinese, Chinese American and European American mothers' self-reported emotional expression within the family. Mothers of 3-year-old European American (n = 40), Chinese American (n = 39) and Mainland Chinese (n = 36) children (n = 20 girls per group) completed the Self-Expressiveness in the Family Questionnaire (SEFQ),…
Descriptors: Mothers, Measures (Individuals), Cultural Differences, Chinese Americans
Xu, Tao; Yan, Zhihua; Duan, Song; Wang, Changhe; Rou, Keming; Wu, Zunyou – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2009
We investigated the psychosocial well-being of children in HIV/AIDS-affected families in rural China from the child's and caregiver's perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among children living in HIV/AIDS-affected families (n = 16), their caregivers (n = 16) and key community informants (n = 5). Our findings showed that all of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Caregiver Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
Li, Huijun; Prevatt, Frances – School Psychology International, 2008
Chinese students from different high school settings face unique academic and emotional challenges. They are in a very vulnerable position due to high parent and teacher expectations and pressure to succeed in college entrance examinations and honour the family and the school. They are also vulnerable due to possible inappropriate parenting…
Descriptors: High Schools, Parenting Styles, College Entrance Examinations, Gender Differences
Chen, Feinian; Short, Susan E. – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
This article investigates the importance of household context to subjective well-being among the oldest old (aged 80 years and older) in China. Using data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, the authors find that living arrangements have strong implications for elderly emotional health. First, living alone is associated with…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context
Ding, Yi; Yang, Ling-Yan; Salyers, Kathleen; Harper, Holly; Guo, Jian-Peng; Liu, Hao; Feng, Yun-Hong – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the needs and challenges reported by caregivers and teachers of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in China. The study group consisted of a random sample of 108 caregivers and 98 teachers of children with ASD. Analysis of epidemiological data produced results consistent with those reported in the…
Descriptors: Autism, Caregivers, Professional Training, Educational Quality
Nyland, Berenice; Nyland, Chris; Maharaj, Elizabeth Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The education and care of children during their first years has long been a topic of debate for policy-makers and researchers. In recent years, neurological and longitudinal research has highlighted the impact the education and care environment can have on the long-term cognitive, social and emotional development of young children. China's…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Emotional Development
Yang, Chunhua – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
To achieve the overall goals and purposes of education is closely related to the living environments of students. Different family backgrounds will put children into a situation where they face unfair competition. According to a survey conducted in China's Urumqi and Changchun about parents' awareness of educating their children, this paper will…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Status, Social Differences, Academic Aspiration
MacPherson, Seonaigh; Ghoso, Dawa Bhuti – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
This study examines the multilingual and multiliteracy practices of a group of Tibetan female youths from South Asia (India, Bhutan, Nepal) newly arrived in Toronto, Canada (N = 24). The main data are derived from a questionnaire surveying their language practices across contexts indicating the roles of education, community, and society in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Ingles, Candido J.; Marzo, Juan C.; Hidalgo, Maria D.; Zhou, Xinyue; Garcia-Fernandez, Jose M. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2008
The Questionnaire about Interpersonal Difficulties for Adolescents (QIDA) is a self-report instrument designed to measure adolescents' perceived interpersonal anxiety levels in a wide range of relationships with people of different ages, genders, levels of authority, and levels of intimacy and in several contexts: family, school, friends, opposite…
Descriptors: Prevention, Psychologists, Ethnic Groups, Factor Structure
Law, Yin-kum – Research in Education, 2008
This study investigated how students' extrinsic motivation, home literacy and classroom instructional practices were related to the students' reading proficiency of 734 Chinese second-graders (48.2 per cent girls and 51.4 per cent boys) from twenty-two classes in seven primary schools in Hong Kong. The mean student age was 7.5 years. All…
Descriptors: Homework, Reading Comprehension, Incentives, Reading Motivation
Suhua, Hu – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
In general, the vitality and social functions of a language are assessed in connection with such indices as the language's intergenerational transmission, the absolute number of speakers and proportion of speakers in the population, its present domains of use, its development within diverse domains of use, and the availability of its educational…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Bilingual Students, Language Usage, Questionnaires
Shek, Daniel T. L. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Over three consecutive years, Chinese secondary school students experiencing and not experiencing economic disadvantage (n = 280 and 2,187, respectively) responded to measures of perceived family life quality (parenting attributes and parent-child relational quality) and emotional well-being (hopelessness, mastery, life satisfaction and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Asian Culture, Family Life, Quality of Life