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A cross-cultural comparison of parenting styles and adolescent competencies in Asian Americans and European Americans

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

Personal and national values : a multinational comparison of values within the person-centered community

Creator:: Cherry, Richard Eugene
Abstract:: Through the development of a Values Questionnaire this study examined the relative importance of values in multinational settings. The Values studied were Respect, Power, Intelligence, Wealth, Skill, Health, Human Kindness, and Love. The person-centered approach was selected as a particular social science community for the focus of the study. Ninety-two...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: most extensive cross-cultural study of attitude structure to date, (Davidson and Thomson, 1980:52), the

Intercultural self concept and coping behavior : Asian and American Caucasian graduate students

Creator:: Christopherson-Choudhry, Matiny Lee
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships and the differences between the self-concept and the coping behavior of two selected groups of graduate students namely, foreign-born Asians and American Caucasians who were enrolled in graduate school of Oregon State University during the 1981-82 academic year. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: were a representative sample of students in the cross cultural comparatives between the foreign-born

Academic dishonesty : comparing American and foreign students' attitudes

Creator:: Sumrain, Ibrahim A.
Abstract:: To determine whether there were differences between foreign (Arab) and American student attitudes toward academic dishonesty in Oregon State University, a seventy-eight item questionnaire designed by Kirk, (1970) was adapted and administered to two hundred and eighty Arab and American graduate and undergraduate students. Three aspects of academic dishonesty were...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: upon the academic performance of foreign students. Althen and Stott (1983), reported in their study

Stability and process issues in intermarriage : a study of martial satisfaction and problem solving in American Indian intermarried and European American endogamous families

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

The application of item response theory in the cross-cultural validation of the physical estimation and attraction scale

Creator:: Charoenruk, Kongsak
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were to (a) outline a three-stage methodology combining functional/conceptual equivalence, item equivalence, and equivalence in construct operationalization to investigate the cross-cultural validity of psychological test instruments, and (b) to examine the cross-cultural equivalence of the Physical Estimation and Attraction Scale (Sonstroem, 1978) for English-speaking and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Transcultural education and Japanese-American relations

Creator:: Mitarai, Shōji, 1949-
Abstract:: The goals of this study were to discover and compare the religious and philosophical traditions which have shaped Japanese and American cultures, and to make a case for interdisciplinary transcultural programs of study in higher education. Specifically, the purposes of this study were to: (1) describe and trace historically the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: kind of analysis should aid any cross-cultural study. Why, then, (1) haven't people in cultural

A cross-cultural study of verbal-spatial preferences for learning

Creator:: Lukehart, Jeffrey Karl
Abstract:: The successful educator must be cognizant of and accommodate individual learner needs. The mediation of learning between the educator and learner is at the very root of successful teaching and learning. Recognizing and acknowledging that educators have preferred methods of operation (teaching style preferences) and students have preferred methods of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Middle Eastern mothers' perspectives of U.S. early childhood schools

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

A comparative study of apparel shopping orientations between Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans

Creator:: Ho, Shan-hsin Angie
Abstract:: Very little empirical research has been conducted on Asian Americans as a whole in relation to their consumer behavior, specifically their clothing behavior. A review of literature demonstrated that Asian Americans have been studied from different psychographic and sociological aspects. However, the apparel shopping behavior of this market has received...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: system. In a cross-cultural study comparing Korean and American fashion leaders, Schrank, Sugawara and

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A cross-cultural comparison of parenting styles and adolescent competencies in Asian Americans and European Americans

Personal and national values : a multinational comparison of values within the person-centered community

Intercultural self concept and coping behavior : Asian and American Caucasian graduate students

Academic dishonesty : comparing American and foreign students' attitudes

Stability and process issues in intermarriage : a study of martial satisfaction and problem solving in American Indian intermarried and European American endogamous families

The application of item response theory in the cross-cultural validation of the physical estimation and attraction scale

Transcultural education and Japanese-American relations

A cross-cultural study of verbal-spatial preferences for learning

Middle Eastern mothers' perspectives of U.S. early childhood schools

A comparative study of apparel shopping orientations between Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans

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