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Download full textDonia Smaali Bouhlila; Imen Hentati – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2024
The need for school belonging is crucial for adolescents and affects academic performance (Goodenow, 1993). School belonging refers to the extent to which students feel accepted, valued, and included in their school environment. It encompasses a sense of connectedness to peers, teachers, and the broader school community, contributing to students'…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Student School Relationship, Muslims, Educational Environment
Direct linkDuell, Natasha; Steinberg, Laurence; Chein, Jason; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Lei, Chang; Chaudhary, Nandita; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Fanti, Kostas A.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Alampay, Liane Peña – Developmental Psychology, 2016
In the present analysis, we test the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking in a cross-national sample of over 5,200 individuals aged 10 through 30 (M = 17.05 years, SD = 5.91) from 11 countries. We examine whether reward seeking and self-regulation make independent, additive, or interactive contributions to risk taking, and ask whether…
Descriptors: Rewards, Self Control, Risk, Adolescents
Maslovskaya, Olga; Smith, Peter W. F.; Padmadas, Sabu S. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2018
Knowledge about different health-related attitudes, beliefs, and risks is of significant interest to scholars in different Social Science disciplines. Usually knowledge is collected in a form of multiple variables and then constructed as a composite indicator. The question any researcher working with knowledge-related variables faces is: what is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Science Research, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Cross Cultural Studies
Crocetti, Elisabetta; Hale, William W., III.; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Abubakar, Amina; Gao, Cheng-Hai; Agaloos Pesigan, Ivan Jacob – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: Approximately 20% of adolescents around the world experience mental health problems, most commonly depression or anxiety. High levels of anxiety disorder symptoms can hinder adolescent development, persist into adulthood, and predict negative mental outcomes, such as suicidal ideation and attempts. Objectives: We analyzed generalized…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Anxiety Disorders, Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Godwin, Jennifer; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Chen, Bin-Bin; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Alampay, Liane Peña; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo – Developmental Psychology, 2018
To examine whether the cultural normativeness of parents' beliefs and behaviors moderates the links between those beliefs and behaviors and youths' adjustment, mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,298 families) from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies
Sivo, Stephen; Karl, Shannon; Fox, Jesse; Taub, Gordon; Robinson, Edward – School Psychology Forum, 2017
The primary objective of this cross-cultural investigation is to compare patterns in student responses to an empirically scrutinized character education measure administered to students in four school districts in Florida with students in a school in Kenya. In this way, the generalizability of findings for scale scores could be compared across…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Values Education, Foreign Countries, School Districts
Broesch, Tanya L.; Bryant, Gregory A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
When speaking to infants, adults typically alter the acoustic properties of their speech in a variety of ways compared with how they speak to other adults; for example, they use higher pitch, increased pitch range, more pitch variability, and slower speech rate. Research shows that these vocal changes happen similarly across industrialized…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Mothers, Syllables
Hopp, Manuel; Händel, Marion; Stoeger, Heidrun; Vialle, Wilma; Ziegler, Albert – Education Sciences, 2016
Implicit theories can influence learning behavior, the approaches individuals take to learning and performance situations, and the learning goals individuals set, as well as, indirectly, their accomplishments, intelligence, and creativity. For this cross-cultural study, Kenyan and German students were asked to draw a creative person and rate it on…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Creativity, Intelligence, Freehand Drawing
Aljughaiman, Abdullah; Duan, Xiaoju; Handel, Marion; Hopp, Manuel; Stoeger, Heidrun; Ziegler, Albert – Online Submission, 2012
This contribution is based on the assumption that implicit theories influence the subjective action space and hence the learning behavior of students. The implicit theory that an individual holds of an intelligent person is of particular importance in this context. For this cross-cultural study, we asked 200 students from Kenya and Germany to draw…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Theories, Intelligence
Peer reviewedDixon, Suzanne D.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
A total of 36 American and African mothers and their children in three age cohorts from 6 to 36 months of age interacted around age-appropriate teaching tasks. Major behavioral differences between cultural groups and tasks were demonstrated. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Infants
Peer reviewedWachs, Theodore D.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
Examined the relationship between caregiver behavior toward toddlers and caregiver and toddler nutritional intake in Kenya and Egypt. Results indicated that the relationship between nutrition and caregiving was mediated by cultural factors, sex of child, and type of nutritional parameter. (GLR)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Mothers
Tudge, Jonathan R. H.; Doucet, Fabienne; Odero, Dolphine; Sperb, Tania M.; Piccinini, Cesar A.; Lopes, Rita S. – Child Development, 2006
A powerful means to understand young children's normative development in context is to examine their everyday activities. The daily activities of 79 children (3 years old) were observed, for 20 hr each, in their usual settings. Children were selected from 4 cultural groups: European American and African American (Greensboro, United States), Luo…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Social Development, Observation
Peer reviewedRichman, Amy L.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1988
Compares the behavior of mothers to their own infants at three- to four- and nine- to 10-months of age in five of the societies described in previous chapters: Gusii of Kenya, Yucatec Mayan of Mexico, Italian, Swedish, and suburban Bostonian. Reveals differences between agrarian and urban-industrial societies, as well as culture-specific patterns…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedJohnson, Scott D.; Miller, Ann N. – Communication Education, 2002
Presents a cross-cultural study of immediacy, with samples of students drawn from a university in the U.S. and a university in Kenya. Identifies positive relationships between verbal immediacy, nonverbal immediacy, credibility, and cognitive learning for both samples, further supporting research done in the U.S. and elsewhere suggesting that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Credibility, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedWeisz, John R.; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Found significant cultural and racial differences in 62 of 118 behavioral and emotional problems among 308 Kenyan, Thai, African-American, and Caucasian-American 11- to 15-year-old children. Caucasian-American children were rated high on undercontrolled problems such as disobedience. Embu children in Kenya were rated high on overcontrolled…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Children, Cross Cultural Studies
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