Gender Differences in Children's Afterschool Autonomy in Taiwan and the United States
Temi Bidjerano, Joan Newman, Chin-Cheng Kao, Asil Ali Özdoğru, and Çağrı Özköse-Bıyık
The study examined boys’ and girls’ autonomy of choice of activities in the after-school hours from a cross-cultural perspective. Pre-adolescent children from Taiwan (n= 252) and US (n=195) completed a questionnaire on their usual after-school activities indicating who determines the choice of any particular activity. The children from the two countries differed significantly with respect to proportion of adult chosen time spent in media use, extra-academic activities, extracurricular activities, sports, and routines. In addition, boys tended to report that they engage in academic activities by virtue of their parents’ demands to a greater extent than girls. The paper offers tentative interpretations of the observed cross-cultural and gender differences.
Keywords: Autonomy, gender differences, cross-cultural psychology
Citation: Bidjerano, T., Newman, J., Kao, C.-C., Özdoğru, A. A., & Özköse-Bıyık, Ç. (2007, April). Gender differences in children’s afterschool autonomy in Taiwan and the United States. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
Temi Bidjerano, Joan Newman, Chin-Cheng Kao, Asil Ali Özdoğru, and Çağrı Özköse-Bıyık
Keywords: Autonomy, gender differences, cross-cultural psychology
Citation: Bidjerano, T., Newman, J., Kao, C.-C., Özdoğru, A. A., & Özköse-Bıyık, Ç. (2007, April). Gender differences in children’s afterschool autonomy in Taiwan and the United States. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
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