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Peer reviewedBekanan, Punthip; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1975
The major purposes of this study are twofold: to examine changes in self-esteem of institutionalized adolescents as a function of exposure to a positive verbal model, and, to compare the efficacy of the experimental procedure across two cultures, Thai and American. Articles from this issue are SO 504 093 and SO 504 094. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedNijhawan, Harbans K.; Verma, Prem – Journal of Social Psychology, 1975
This study, undertaken in India, shows that parents of conservative youth and parents of radical youth have very different attitudes towards child rearing. Availability information is given in SO 504 092. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Relationship
Peer reviewedKleinfeld, J. S. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1973
Nonverbal cues which enthnographic analysis suggested were central to communicating personal warmth to Indian and Eskimo adolescents did produce significant changes on intelligence test performance. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Peer reviewedIsralowitz, Richard E. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1988
Reports a study, based on the father-child occupational linkage theory, that compares the work values of independence, management, and achievement of Jewish and Bedouin-Arab Israeli youth in order to determine if work values differ when the father's occupational status was controlled. Findings failed to support the occupational linkage theory. (LS)
Descriptors: Achievement, Administration, Adolescents, Arabs
Peer reviewedVerkuyten, Maykel – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Reports results from a nationwide sample in the Netherlands examining effects of minority status on Turkish adolescents. Finds that Turkish ethnicity did not significantly lower self-esteem. Reveals that (for both groups) body image had the greatest impact on self-esteem. Reports ethnic identity was more salient to Turks' self-concept than to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedGibbons, Judith L.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1989
Compared adolescent perceptions of the opposite-sex ideal. Subjects were students from 44 countries attending secondary schools or universities in the Netherlands. Results showed that males put more emphasis on physical attributes whereas females placed emphasis on inner qualities. (GG)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Females, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDabul, Amy J.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Posits a distinction between cultures motivated by individualistic value systems (idiocentric) and collectivistic value systems (allocentric). Study reveals that Mexican American adolescents describe themselves in more allocentric terms, while Anglo American adolescents choose idiocentric terms. Suggests a correlation between idiocentric values…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Beliefs
