Australian and United States Perspectives on Stuttering in Preschool Children

The goal of this questionnaire-based study was to compare the relative endorsement of specific parenting patterns among two ethnic Chinese groups rearing preschool children: Chinese parents in China ( N = 117) and first-generation Chinese immigrant parents in the United States ( N = 94). A significant interaction effect was found between country and gender on the nonreasoning/punitive dimension of authoritarian parenting, revealing that Chinese fathers endorsed this pattern more strongly than both Chinese immigrant fathers and Chinese mothers. There was also a significant interaction effect between country and gender on the practice of shaming/love withdrawal, indicating that Chinese fathers espoused this pattern more strongly than Chinese immigrant fathers and Chinese mothers, but Chinese immigrant mothers endorsed it more strongly than Chinese immigrant fathers. Furthermore, it was revealed that Chinese immigrants endorsed beliefs about maternal involvement more strongly than their Chinese counterparts. The results are discussed in the context of cultural and contextual influences.

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Report on "anthropometric failure" among rural 2-6 years old Indian Bauri caste children of West Bengal

Anthropological Review ◽

10.2478/v10044-008-0017-1 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 81-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Subal Das ◽

Kaushik Bose

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Preschool Children ◽

Nutritional Status ◽

West Bengal ◽

Reference Sample ◽

Composite Index ◽

The United States ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Purulia District ◽

Ultimate Objective

Report on "anthropometric failure" among rural 2-6 years old Indian Bauri caste children of West BengalThis study was undertaken to determine the overall prevalence of undernutrition using the composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) among the Bauri caste rural preschool children of the Purulia District, West Bengal, India. A total of 347 children (185 boys and 162 girls) aged 2-6 years were measured. Stunting, underweight and wasting were used to evaluate the nutritional status of the subjects (compared with children of the United States NCHS reference sample) and CIAF for the total children. Among the studied Bauri children, 39.2% were stunted, 51.2% - underweight and 26.6% - wasted. The CIAF showed a higher prevalence of undernutrition, with a total of 66.3% of Bauri caste preschool children suffering from at least one type of "anthropometric failure". Among the studied children only 33.7% showed no failure. Valuable health and nutrition promotional programs can be formulated based on the CIAF findings with the ultimate objective of reducing childhood undernutrition in a population of India.

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Sex-role preferences in preschool children from five subcultures of the United States

10.31274/rtd-180817-436 ◽

1969 ◽

Author(s):

Asha K. Joshi

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Preschool Children ◽

Sex Role ◽

The United States

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Seroprevalence of antibody against poliovirus in inner-city preschool children. Implications for vaccination policy in the United States

JAMA ◽

10.1001/jama.275.21.1639 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 275 (21) ◽

pp. 1639-1645 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

R. T. Chen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Preschool Children ◽

Inner City ◽

The United States ◽

Vaccination Policy

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A Survey of Vision Screening Policy of Preschool Children in the United States

Survey of Ophthalmology ◽

10.1016/s0039-6257(99)00021-1 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 43 (5) ◽

pp. 445-457 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Elise B Ciner ◽

Velma Dobson ◽

Paulette P Schmidt ◽

Dale Allen ◽

Lynn Cyert ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Preschool Children ◽

The United States ◽

Vision Screening ◽

Screening Policy

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COLOR BIAS IN CHILDREN REVISITED: FINDINGS FROM PORTUGAL

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.1997.25.2.115 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 115-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Félix Neto ◽

John E. Williams

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Preschool Children ◽

Western Europe ◽

The United States ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

Color Bias

Earlier studies of preschool children in the United States, Western Europe and Asia have demonstrated a bias favoring the color white relative to the color black, and a bias favoring light-skinned human figures relative to dark-skinned figures. In this study, procedures used in previous studies were translated and administered to five- and eight-year-old children in Portugal. Both types of bias were found among the Portuguese children providing additional evidence that the pro-white and pro-light-skinned biases are pancultural tendencies. The biases were not different by gender, but they were higher among eight-year-old children than five-year-old children and, hence, seemed more likely to be attributable to cultural learning.

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