title: Changes in early adolescents' sense of responsibility to their parents in the United States and China: implications for academic functioning.
abstract: This research examined American and Chinese children's sense of responsibility to their parents during early adolescence, with a focus on its implications for children's academic functioning. Four times over the seventh and eighth grades, 825 children (mean age = 12.73 years) in the United States and China reported on their sense of responsibility to their parents. Information on children's academic functioning was also collected from children as well as school records. Although children's sense of responsibility to their parents declined over the seventh and eighth grades in the United States, this was not the case in China. In both countries, children's sense of responsibility was predictive of enhanced academic functioning among children over time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. pomerntz@illinois.edu
authors.forename: Eva M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Pomerantz
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Huichang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009042:Motivation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D057566:Self Report; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology