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Maternal Mental State Language Is Associated with Trajectories of Chinese Immigrant Children's Emotion Situation Knowledge
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Doan, Stacey N.; Lee, Helen Y.; Wang, Qi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
We investigated the role of mothers' references to mental states and behaviors and children's emotion situation knowledge (ESK) in a prospective, cross-cultural context. European American mothers (n = 71) and Chinese immigrant mothers (n = 60) and their children participated in the study. Maternal references to mental states and behaviors were…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Asians, Mother Attitudes, Role
Children's Emotional Expressivity and Teacher Perceptions of Social Competence
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Louie, Jennifer Yu; Wang, Shu-wen; Fung, Joey; Lau, Anna – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Previous research suggests that adult perceptions of children's social competence may vary depending on the socialization goals in a given cultural context. There is also ample evidence of cultural differences in values concerning emotional display, with East Asian collectivistic contexts favoring restraint and Western individualistic contexts…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Asian Americans, Anglo Americans, Preschool Children
Work Socialization and Adolescents' Work-Related Values in Single-Mother African American Families
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Toyokawa, Teru; McLoyd, Vonnie C. – Journal of Career Development, 2013
This study examined African American mothers' work socialization messages in relation to adolescents' work-related values. Moderation effects of mother-adolescent relation quality on the linkage between maternal socialization messages and adolescents' outcomes were also examined. Participants were 245 single African American mothers and their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Americans, Anglo Americans, Socialization
A Cross-Cultural Study of Anxiety among Chinese and Caucasian American University Students
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Xie, Dong; Leong, Frederick T. L. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2008
This study investigated the cross-cultural differences on state, trait, and social anxiety between Chinese and Caucasian American university students. Chinese students reported higher levels of social anxiety than did Caucasian American students. Correlations between trait and state anxiety were compared in light of the trait model of…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Anglo Americans
Cross-Racial Comparison of the WAIS and WAIS-R.
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Whitworth, Randolph H.; Gibbons, Ruth T. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
A cross-racial comparison of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was made with the revised version, the WAIS-R. Three groups of Anglo, Black, and Mexican-American male college students were administered both versions of the WAIS on the same day. Significant differences were found among the racial groups. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Comparative Testing
The Relationship of School Belonging and Friends' Values to Academic Motivation among Urban Adolescent Students.
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Goodenow, Carol; Grady, Kathleen E. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1993
The relationships among early adolescents' sense of school belonging, perceptions of their friends' academic values, and academic motivation were studied for 301 African American, white (Anglo), and Hispanic students in 2 urban junior high schools. Correlations between school belonging and motivation-related measures is positive and statistically…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Black Students