Abstract:The present study examined associations between sociocultural factors and self‐regulation (parent‐report, teacher‐report, laboratory tasks), and prospective relations between self‐regulation and behavioral adjustment (parent‐, teacher‐, child‐report) in a socioeconomically diverse sample of Chinese American children in immigrant families (N = 258, Wave 1 age = 6–9 years, Wave 2 age = 9–11 years, 52% boys, 57% low‐income) in a longitudinal study (2007–2011) during early elementary school years. Family income un… Show more
How do sociocultural differences in the home and school contexts of immigrant children influence their self-regulation? A recent study in
Child Development
suggests the answer may depend on how you measure it.
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