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Diverse-and-Dynamic Pathways in Educational and Interpersonal Identity Formation during Adolescence: Longitudinal Links with Psychosocial Functioning
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Hatano, Kai; Sugimura, Kazumi; Crocetti, Elisabetta; Meeus, Wim H. J. – Child Development, 2020
This study aimed to examine the relations between educational and interpersonal identity trajectories and psychosocial functioning based on a three-factor identity process model. A total of 968 Japanese adolescents including 13- and 16-years-olds (49.7% female) participated in a four-wave longitudinal study. Latent class growth analysis extracted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Self Concept
Contribution of Executive Functions to Learning Sequential Actions in Young Children
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Yanaoka, Kaichi; Saito, Satoru – Child Development, 2021
This study examined whether executive functions impact how flexibly children represent task context in performing repeated sequential actions. Japanese children in Experiments 1 (N = 52; 3-6 years) and 2 (N = 50, 4-6 years) performed sequential actions repeatedly; one group received reminders. Experiment 1 indicated that reminders promote flexible…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Sequential Learning, Children, Foreign Countries
Is the Secure Base Phenomenon Evident Here, There, and Anywhere? A Cross-Cultural Study of Child Behavior and Experts' Definitions
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Posada, German; Lu, Ting; Trumbell, Jill; Kaloustian, Garene; Trudel, Marcel; Plata, Sandra J.; Peña, Paola P.; Perez, Jennifer; Tereno, Susana; Dugravier, Romain; Coppola, Gabrielle; Constantini, Alessandro; Cassibba, Rosalinda; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Nóblega, Magaly; Haya, Ines M.; Pedraglio, Claudia; Verissimo, Manuela; Santos, Antonio J.; Monteiro, Ligia; Lay, Keng-Ling – Child Development, 2013
The evolutionary rationale offered by Bowlby implies that secure base relationships are common in child-caregiver dyads and thus, child secure behavior observable across diverse social contexts and cultures. This study offers a test of the universality hypothesis. Trained observers in nine countries used the Attachment Q-set to describe the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Child Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
Young Children's Spontaneous Personification as Analogy.
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Inagaki, Kayoko; Hatano, Giyoo – Child Development, 1987
Results of two experiments on kindergarten children in Japan indicate that young children can, and often do, apply personification as an analogy to animate objects to generate a reasonable prediction. It was also found that children try to constrain the personification by using additional knowledge. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Referential Communication Accuracy between Mother and Child as a Predictor of Cognitive Development in the United States and Japan.
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Dickson, W. Patrick; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Referential communication accuracy of mother and child pairs when the children were four years old predicted children's cognitive development one and two years later in the United States and Japan. Main effects were found to be significant even when mother IQ, SES, and child ability at age four were partialled out of the analysis. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries, Mothers
Reorganizing the Lexicon by Learning a New Word: Japanese Children's Interpretation of the Meaning of a New Word for a Familiar Artifact.
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Haryu, Etsuko; Imai, Mutsumi – Child Development, 2002
Three studies investigated how 3-year-old Japanese children interpret the meaning of a new word associated with a familiar artifact. Findings suggest that children flexibly recruit clues from multiple sources, including shape information and function familiarity, but the clues are weighed in hierarchical order so children can determine the single…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Acquisition
Mother Behavior in an Unstructured Situation and Child's Acquisition of Number Conservation.
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Hatano, Giyoo; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Investigates which aspects of the mother behavior in interaction would be related, and in what way, to the child's acquisition of number conservation as a criterion measure of later cognitive development. (MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Foreign Countries, Influences
Using "The Japanese Problem" as a Corrective to the Ethnocentricity of Western Theory.
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Tobin, Joseph – Child Development, 2000
Focuses on how knowledge about Japanese psychological development and culture can serve as a corrective to the ethnocentrism of Western theory. Highlights the Japanese cultural concepts of "amae" and "kejime." (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Developmental Psychology
Learning Proper Nouns and Common Nouns without Clues from Syntax.
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Imai, Mutsumi; Haryu, Etsuko – Child Development, 2001
Examined how Japanese 2- and 4-year-olds assigned meaning to novel nouns associated with familiar and unfamiliar animals and inanimate objects. Found that in the absence of useful information from syntax, the 2-year-olds were able to fast map a noun to its meaning by elegantly coordinating word-learning biases and other available sources of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Familiarity
New Insight and Old Dilemma: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Japan and the United States.
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Lebra, Takie Sugiyama – Child Development, 2000
Maintains that conflict in close relationships characterizes both the United States and Japan, with differences only in the style and timing of its manifestations. Asserts that the potentially fruitful strategy of Rothbaum et al. is constrained by their cross-cultural comparative methodology. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences