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How WEIRD Is the Development of Children's Gratitude in the United States? Cross-Cultural Comparisons
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Freitas, Lia B. L.; Palhares, Fernanda; Cao, Hongjian; Liang, Yue; Zhou, Nan; Mokrova, Irina L.; Lee, Soeun; Payir, Ayse; Kiang, Lisa; Mendonça, Sara E.; Merçon-Vargas, Elisa A.; O'Brien, Lia; Tudge, Jonathan R. H. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Our interest is in the development of gratitude as a moral virtue, and its variability across different cultural contexts. Given psychology's overreliance on samples collected from the United Sates, Western Europe, and Australasia, we contrasted patterns of age-related expressions of gratitude among a sample of U.S. 7- to 14-year-old children with…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethics, Psychological Patterns
Pathways between Family SES, Parent Characteristics, Early Experiences, and Child Language Outcomes in South Korea: A Combined Analysis of the Family Stress Model and the Family Investment Model
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Shin, So Yeon; McCoy, Dana Charles – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Whereas previous research has examined the role that parenting and home environments play in explaining the relation between family socioeconomic status and children's language development in the United States, relatively little is known about the associations between these constructs in other cultures. This study tested an integrated model of…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Parents, Individual Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Chinese and South Korean Children's Moral Reasoning Regarding the Fairness of a Gendered Household Labor Distribution
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Midgette, Allegra J. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study explored age-related changes in Chinese and Korean children's fairness judgments and reasoning regarding the gendered division of household labor. The majority of previous research on this issue has focused on adults' experiences and has been conducted in Western countries. Interviews were conducted with 133 children, 65 Chinese and 68…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethics, Gender Differences
The Role of Familiarity in Daily Well-Being: Developmental and Cultural Variation
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Oishi, Shigehiro; Kurtz, Jaime L.; Miao, Felicity F.; Park, Jina; Whitchurch, Erin – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The present study examined life stage and cultural differences in the degree to which familiarity of one's physical location and interaction partner is associated with daily well-being. Participants reported all the activities they engaged in and how they felt during these activities on a previous day using the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman,…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Cultural Differences
The Behavioral Development of Korean Children in Institutional Care and International Adoptive Families
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Lee, Richard M.; Seol, Kyoung Ok; Sung, Miyoung; Miller, Matthew J. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
In this study, the authors compared the behavioral development of 4- to 8-year-old South Korean children placed in institutional care (n = 230) or adopted internationally (n = 382), with age of entry, parental status, reason for institutionalization, and postinstitutionalization parental contact as risk factors for institutionalized children.…
Descriptors: Placement, Risk, Parent Child Relationship, Adoption
Korean Children's Concepts of Adult and Peer Authority and Moral Reasoning.
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Kim, Jung Min – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined Korean first, third, and fifth graders' judgments about authority commands regarding moral events. Found that children judged that a principal, teacher, class president, and child without an authority position have legitimacy and should be obeyed when giving morally right directives. Children gave greater legitimacy to persons giving…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students