Changchun Children Data Set

The Changchun Children Data-set consists of data on 1,461 children in Changchun schools. The survey was conducted in the urban and rural areas of Changchun, a city in Jilin Province in northeastern China in June and July of 1987. Dudley Poston (Texas A&M University) and Toni Falbo (University of Texas) conducted the survey in collaboration with Liu Yunde, Gu Zhongqing, Wang Shengjin, and Yin Hao, all of them (at the time) demographers at the Population research Institute of Jilin University. The survey contained four parts, with the children's teachers and parents (usually the mothers) each completing two parts. The data-set contains 33 variables for each of the children in the survey. For a detailed statement about the survey see D. Poston and T. Falbo, "Academic performance and personality traits of Chinese Children: 'Onlies' versus Others," American Journal of Sociology 96 (September, 1990), esp. pp. 437-441. The data-set is formatted in Stata, Version 8, accompanied by a codebook

Culture Moderates the Relationship between Family Obligation Values and the Outcomes of Korean and European American College Students

Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean (n = 249) and European American (n = 251) college students. The results provided support for this hypothesis. Specifically, for Koreans, family obligation values were significantly and positively correlated with descriptions of parents as being more supportive of the self-determination of their children, which was found to mediate the relationship between family obligation values and student outcomes. Furthermore, family obligation values were more strongly associated with the motivation, self-esteem, and depression of Koreans than European Americans. European American students expressed lower family obligation values and the intensity of these values were unrelated to their emotional well-being. Family obligation values were positively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for Korean students, and negatively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for European American students. The results are discussed in terms of cultural moderation and self-determination theory

Changchun Children Data Set

The Changchun Children Data-set consists of data on 1,461 children in Changchun schools. The survey was conducted in the urban and rural areas of Changchun, a city in Jilin Province in northeastern China in June and July of 1987. Dudley Poston (Texas A&M University) and Toni Falbo (University of Texas) conducted the survey in collaboration with Liu Yunde, Gu Zhongqing, Wang Shengjin, and Yin Hao, all of them (at the time) demographers at the Population research Institute of Jilin University. The survey contained four parts, with the children's teachers and parents (usually the mothers) each completing two parts. The data-set contains 33 variables for each of the children in the survey. For a detailed statement about the survey see D. Poston and T. Falbo, "Academic performance and personality traits of Chinese Children: 'Onlies' versus Others," American Journal of Sociology 96 (September, 1990), esp. pp. 437-441. The data-set is formatted in Stata, Version 8, accompanied by a codebook

Culture Moderates the Relationship between Family Obligation Values and the Outcomes of Korean and European American College Students

Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean (n = 249) and European American (n = 251) college students. The results provided support for this hypothesis. Specifically, for Koreans, family obligation values were significantly and positively correlated with descriptions of parents as being more supportive of the self-determination of their children, which was found to mediate the relationship between family obligation values and student outcomes. Furthermore, family obligation values were more strongly associated with the motivation, self-esteem, and depression of Koreans than European Americans. European American students expressed lower family obligation values and the intensity of these values were unrelated to their emotional well-being. Family obligation values were positively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for Korean students, and negatively correlated with reports of self- determined motivation for European American students. The results are discussed in terms of cultural moderation and self-determination theory

Evaluations of the behavioral attributes of only children in Beijing, China: moderating effects of gender and the one-child policy

The purpose of this study was to explore whether evaluations of the behavioral attributes of only children in Beijing differed from evaluations of children with siblings, and how these evaluations were affected by gender and China's One-Child Policy (OCP). This study applies hierarchical linear regression analyses to data collected from children born before or after the initiation of the OCP. The participants (N = 1000) were randomly selected schoolchildren whose behavioral attributes were evaluated by the children themselves, their peers, parents, and teachers, using a 32 attributes checklist, consisting of attributes Chinese experts considered important for school-aged children. In addition, a difference score, representing the difference between self and peer evaluations, was considered in order to assess degrees of self-enhancement. The results indicated that male only children received less positive self, peer, parent, and teacher evaluations than female only children and that among children born before the OCP, only children evaluated themselves less positively than their peers with siblings. Parents evaluated their only children born after the OCP more positively than did parents of only children born before the OCP. In terms of self-enhancement, only children, particularly male only children, evaluated themselves more positively than they were evaluated by their peers. These findings are discussed in terms of the major social and cultural changes happening in China since the OCP that affected how only children saw themselves and were seen by others

Culture Moderates the Relationship between Family Obligation Values and the Outcomes of Korean and European American College Students

Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean (n = 249) and European American (n = 251) college students. The results provided support for this hypothesis. Specifically, for Koreans, family obligation values were significantly and positively correlated with descriptions of parents as being more supportive of the self-determination of their children, which was found to mediate the relationship between family obligation values and student outcomes. Furthermore, family obligation values were more strongly associated with the motivation, self-esteem, and depression of Koreans than European Americans. European American students expressed lower family obligation values and the intensity of these values were unrelated to their emotional well-being. Family obligation values were positively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for Korean students, and negatively correlated with reports of self-determined motivation for European American students. The results are discussed in terms of cultural moderation and self-determination theory

Chinese Adults Believe that Only Children Are Lonely. But Chinese Young Adults Who Are Only Children Report Less Loneliness than Young Adults with Siblings

A common stereotype about only children in China is that they are lonelier than children who grow up with siblings. However, little research has documented whether large numbers of Chinese actually believe in this stereotype and whether the stereotype is even true for youth. PRC graduate student trainees Shengjie Lin and Yidan Wang, along with faculty scholar Toni Falbo, and colleagues found that young Chinese adults do indeed believe that only children experience more loneliness than those who grew up with siblings. But this belief does not match the reality in which youths with siblings report more loneliness than only children. The mismatch between stereotype and reality points to the need for counseling professionals, among others, to check their only-child-as-lonely biases and instead focus on the reality of the issues facing their clients.Population Research Cente