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Creator:: Wang, Helen Yanqing
Abstract:: Guided by Ogbu's cultural-ecological model of human development, this comparative study offers a comprehensive and explicit way of conceptualizing and measuring parenting within the cultural context. Multiple hypotheses are generated for the cross-cultural comparison of parenting styles in Asian Americans and European Americans. The study uses the National Longitudinal Study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: model for the cross-cultural study. It is more flexible and extensive for capturing the broad patterns

Creator:: Kawamoto, Walter T.
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to investigate process and stability issues in intermarried families utilizing data from a group of American Indian intermarried families and a group of endogamous European American families. Stability issues such as marital satisfaction and overall problem solving were investigated by comparing scores between the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: sharing that can come from the union of differing cultural perspectives. The goal of this study was

Creator:: Wanless, Shannon B.
Abstract:: Early behavioral regulation has been identified as an important component of school readiness, yet few easy-to-administer measures exist that directly assess this skill in young children outside of the United States (U.S.). In this dissertation, two studies were conducted to examine the reliability and validity of a direct measure of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: one study, cross- cultural differences were found on a teacher-rated measure but no differences were

Creator:: Badiee, Shahrnaz
Abstract:: I determined the perspectives of Middle Eastern mothers concerning U.S. early childhood schools using qualitative methodologies. The ecological perspective model presented by Bronfenbrenner was the ideal framework for investigating the Middle Eastern children's experiences in this study that considered the importance of the sociocultural contexts of children and their families....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ' and teachers' perceptions in relation to cultural awareness in U.S. schools. This study also

Creator:: Schiedel, Esther R.
Abstract:: The study hypotheses, based on sociobiology, were that the more committed and positive the parental relationship, the greater the likelihood of breastfeeding and of later weaning. Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study was used; sample size was 3635, and over half were African- 2merican. In a logistic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: You, Hyun-Kyung
Abstract:: This study examined the experiences of five Korean American mothers in Oregon and California who have children with disabilities using qualitative research analysis. The mothers' adaptation processes were individually analyzed, and these mothers' overarching experiences were discussed with three major themes: (a) caring for family cohesiveness, (b) needs for social...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ethnographic study by Holroyd (2003) showed a slightly different phenomenon of Chinese cultural influence on

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