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Perceptions of Achievement and Achieving Peers in U.S. and Chinese Kindergartners
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Li, Jin; Wang, Qi – Social Development, 2004
Two studies were conducted to examine perceptions about achievement and achieving peers in 190 U.S. and Chinese kindergartners. Children provided free-narrative responses to story beginnings about an achieving protagonist in school settings. We found marked cultural differences. For achievement, U.S. children perceived more intellectual…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Intellectual Development, Academic Achievement
Parental Control and Affect as Predictors of Children's Display Rule Use and Social Competence with Peers
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McDowell, David J.; Parke, Ross D. – Social Development, 2005
Seventy-six fourth-grade children and their parents participated in a study of the linkages among parental control and positive affect, children's display rule use, and children's social competence with peers. Using observational measures of parental behavior and children's display rule use, it was found that parental positive affect and control…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence