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Peer reviewedMcDevitt, Teresa M.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1987
The relationship between the referential communication accuracy of mothers and their 4-year-old children and the children's achievement in vocabulary and mathematics at age 12 was examined in 47 American and 44 Japanese mother-child pairs. Positive correlations were found in both cultures. (Author/BN)
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Intelligence
Peer reviewedFarver, JoAnn M.; Howes, Carollee – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Observed and analyzed the play of 60 U.S. and Mexican toddlers and their mothers. Found cultural differences in children's pretend play, the mutual involvement of mothers and children in pretend play, the behaviors mothers used to structure play, and mothers' value of children's play. (MM)
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLeyendecker, Birgit; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Examined maternal and infant behaviors, behavioral coordination, maternal response, and nonresponse in relation to security of attachment. Subjects were 40 Euro-American mothers and 39 Central American immigrant mothers studied when their infants were 4-, 8-, and 12-months-old. Found that individual differences on measures of maternal response and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedEisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
Assessed the moral reasoning of Israeli third and sixth graders living in a city or a kibbutz. Kibbutz children's direct reciprocity reasoning increased, while pragmatic reasoning increased with age only for kibbutz children. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedLeung, Kwok; Lau, Sing; Lam, Wai-Lim – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1998
Investigated relationships between parenting style and adolescents' academic achievement in Hong Kong, United States, and Australia. Found cultural differences in general and academic authoritarianism and general authoritativeness. Academic achievement was negatively related to academic authoritarianism and was positively related to general…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Authoritarianism, Child Rearing
Peer reviewedKail, Robert; Park, Young-shin – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1992
Three experiments focused on the function relating children's response time to adults' response time in corresponding conditions. In all experiments, children's response times increased in a linear manner as a function of adults' response times. (BB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Peer reviewedFlannagan, Dorothy; Hardee, Susan D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Examined the influence of mother-child conversation about child's social relationship on the development of children's interpersonal competence. Found that children's relationships with others were an integral part of mother-children conversations. The types of relationships discussed and the elaborateness with which they were discussed varied as…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Hispanic Americans, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedHarwood, Robin L.; Miller, Joan G. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Examined middle and lower class Anglo-American and Puerto Rican mothers' sociocultural values and perceptions of attachment behavior. Anglo mothers focused on self-confidence, independence, and autonomy, whereas Puerto Rican mothers focused on obedience, relatedness, and demeanor. Findings indicate the need for culturally sensitive models of the…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attachment Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedHutsinger, Carol S.; Jose, Paul E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Examined sociocultural influences on mathematics achievement. First generation Chinese American and Caucasian American mother-father-daughter triads were audiotaped as the fifth- and sixth-grade girls solved a spatial puzzle. Chinese American triads were quieter, more respectful, more serious, and more orderly, whereas Caucasian American triads…
Descriptors: Children, Chinese Americans, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
