Children's Autonomy: A Comparative Analysis of Fourth-Grade Children's Activities in Taiwan and USA
Joan Newman, Temi Bidjerano, Asil Ali Özdoğru , Chin-Cheng Kao, 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, after-school activities, cross-cultural psychology
Citation: Newman, J., Bidjerano, T., Özdoğru, A. A., Kao, C.-C., & Özköse-Bıyık, Ç. (2007, March). Children’s autonomy: A comparative analysis of fourth grade children’s activities in Bulgaria, Taiwan and USA. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, USA.
Joan Newman, Temi Bidjerano, Asil Ali Özdoğru , Chin-Cheng Kao, and Çağrı Özköse-Bıyık
Keywords: Autonomy, after-school activities, cross-cultural psychology
Citation: Newman, J., Bidjerano, T., Özdoğru, A. A., Kao, C.-C., & Özköse-Bıyık, Ç. (2007, March). Children’s autonomy: A comparative analysis of fourth grade children’s activities in Bulgaria, Taiwan and USA. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, USA.
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