"My way or mom's way?" The bilingual and bicultural self in Hong Kong Chinese children and adolescents

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 555-567

  Wang, Qi ^a   Shao, Yi ^a   Li, Yexin Jessica ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGO; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EGO; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 77954301991     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01415.x     Document Type: Article

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