Definitions and Terms
What does ECBQ stand for?
Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire
What four countries did the current study choose to study?
What is US, South Korea, Chile, Poland
Which Country scored highest on the Surgency factor?
What is the definition of temperament?
What is constitutionally-based, individual differences in reactivity and self-regulation.
Who observes and reports the children's behaviors on the ECBQ?
The parents of the children
Which country scored second highest in Surgency and lowest in Negative affectivity?
USA
What three factors make up the ECBQ?
What is Surgency, Negative Affectivity and Effortful Control
What is a major difference between the parenting strategies of an "individualist" parent as compared to a "collectivist" parent?
Individualist- emphasis on caring for oneself and immediate family, fosters independence
Collectivist- Fosters interdependence, and caring for broad network of people
What factor of the ECBQ does the current study believe was underreported by US parents due to the US having "an intolerance for the expression of negative emotion" ?
Negative Affectivity
Heredity, maturation and experience over time
Which country was predicted to score higher in the factor of Surgency than the other countries because of a previous study done examining 3-12 month olds "smiling and laughter" dimension?
Poland
The "culture of complaining" (Wojciske, 2004) is most related to which country in the current study?
Poland
Which of the three factors (Surgency, Negative Affectivity, Effortful Control) does "cuddliness" fall under?
Effortful Control
Which country in the current study has not been included in any other cross-cultural temperament studies before?
Chile
A study done by Chen et al (1998) states that East Asian countries value behavioral constraint. What finding from the current study backs up this claim?
South Korean children scored high on the factor of Effortful Control