Reasoning About the Disclosure of Success and Failure to Friends Among Children in the United States and China

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 908-918

  Heyman, Gail D ^a   Fu, Genyue ^b   Lee, Kang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

academic achievement; cross cultural differences; peers; self disclosure; social cognition

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROL; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CHINA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47249086142     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.908     Document Type: Article

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