Children’s Weekend Activities across Cultures: A Dissertation Proposal
Asil Ali Özdoğru
Children’s out-of-school time activity patterns and profiles reveal important information about their individual and emotional development. Studying the structure and the schedule of children’s weekend activities across cultures is valuable in the understanding of developmental processes as well as the role of culture in human development. In addition to looking at activity profiles of children from four different cultures, this dissertation will test the relation between adult-structure in activities and specific outcomes of emotional development. Fourth grade students’ adult-structured weekend activities and their relation to enjoyment and anxiety in children from Bulgaria, Taiwan, Turkey, and United States will be discussed.
Keywords: Out-of-school activities, cross-cultural psychology, anxiety, enjoyment
Citation: Özdoğru, A. A. (2008, October). Children’s weekend activities across cultures: A dissertation proposal. Paper presented at the 39th annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT, USA.
Asil Ali Özdoğru
Keywords: Out-of-school activities, cross-cultural psychology, anxiety, enjoyment
Citation: Özdoğru, A. A. (2008, October). Children’s weekend activities across cultures: A dissertation proposal. Paper presented at the 39th annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT, USA.
