Changes in early adolescents' sense of responsibility to their parents in the United States and China: Implications for academic functioning

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1136-1151

  Pomerantz, Eva M ^a   Qin, Lili ^a   Wang, Qian ^b   Chen, Huichang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960169177     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01588.x     Document Type: Article

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