Why attend school? Chinese immigrant and European American preschoolers' views and outcomes

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1637-1650

  Li, Jin ^a   Yamamoto, Yoko ^a   Luo, Lily ^b   Batchelor, Andrea K ^a   Bresnahan, Richard M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Culture; Immigrant children; Learning purpose; SES

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SCHOOL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; AFFECT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOTIVATION; READING; SCHOOLS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIALIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 78649312702     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019926     Document Type: Article

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