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Links between Adolescents' Relationships with Peers, Parents, and Their Values in Three Cultural Contexts
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Tamm, Anni; Kasearu, Kairi; Tulviste, Tiia; Trommsdorff, Gisela – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2018
The study examined associations among adolescents' perceived mother-child and father-child relationship quality (intimacy, conflict, and admiration), perceived peer acceptance, and their values (individualism and collectivism) in a sample of 795 Estonian, German, and Russian 15-year-olds. Adolescents from the three cultural contexts differed in…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Relationship
Reciprocity in Intergenerational Support: A Comparison of Chinese and German Adult Daughters
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Schwarz, Beate; Trommsdorff, Gisela; Zheng, Gang; Shi, Shaohua – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
This study investigates how Chinese and German adult daughters evaluate the norm of reciprocity and the unbalanced exchange of support in relation to their aging parents. Women from rural and urban China (n = 292) and from Germany (n = 264) have participated in this study. Results show that for the German daughters, differently from rural Chinese…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Daughters, Social Change, Foreign Countries
Sympathy, Distress, and Prosocial Behavior of Preschool Children in Four Cultures
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Trommsdorff, Gisela; Friedlmeier, Wolfgang; Mayer, Boris – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
This study examined emotional responding (sympathy and distress) and prosocial behavior as well as their relations across four cultures in a specific context. Preschool children (N = 212) from two Western cultures, Germany and Israel, and two South-East Asian cultures, Indonesia and Malaysia, participated in this study. Children's emotional…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between German and Japanese Toddlers.
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Friedlmeier, Wolfgang; Trommsdorff, Gisela – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1999
Studied toddler's regulation of negative emotions in Japan and Germany by comparing the responses of 20 2-year-old girls from each country (in the presence of their mothers) to a playmate's distress. Found culture specific differences in the children's regulation patterns and the qualities of mother-child interactions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Emotional Response, Females
Coping with University-Related Problems: A Cross-cultural Comparison.
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Essau, Cecilia Ahmoi; Trommsdorff, Gisela – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1996
Compares problem- and emotion-focused coping in students from North America, Germany, and Malaysia to determine the association between coping and physical symptoms. Results with 365 undergraduates found that North Americans and Germans with higher scores on emotion-focused coping had fewer symptoms, although the reverse was true for Malaysians.…
Descriptors: Coping, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Emotional Response
Social Development of Young Children in Different Cultural Systems.
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Trommsdorff, Gisela; Kienbaum, Jutta – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1999
Compared social behavior of five-year olds from Germany and former USSR, and child-rearing belief systems of their mothers. Found that intensity of prosocial behavior was higher in German girls than in German boys or Russian girls. More Russian boys than girls showed at least some kind of prosocial behavior. Russian mothers described their…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences