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the Chinese-American people will surely promote the international intercourse of the Chinese
culture.
4028.60 The impact of cultural deviation on educational progress of Tehran high school girls,
Nader Jebelli, Iran
The theme is derived from one hundred questionnaires and interviews of high school girl students.
Deviation is presumed as disacceptance of dominant educational subcultures. Forty percent of
deviators were unsuccessful in their education while nine percent were excellent in their school.
Fifteen percent were only successful in some general courses with no need to challenge. Nineteen
percent were indifference about educational progress. Nine percent refrained from participating in
the research. Eight percent were dismissed of the school and had somatic and psychosomatic
problems. The result is oriented deviation is educational progress factor and imitation
disacceptance is problematic.
4028.61 How Chinese mothers’ roles in child rearing changed: Comparison of the narratives
between 1960 and 2000 Chinese elementary school textbooks, Xiangshan Gao 1 , Rieko Tomo 2 ,
Hiroko Kanbayashi 3 , 1 Tokyo metropolitan University, Japan 2 Heian Women's University, Japan
According as our researches, there have some results show that changes of mothers’ roles in child
rearing appear between 1960 and 2000 Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean Elementary
School Textbooks. The purpose of this study is to make clear that how those have changed through
comparison of the narratives between 1960 and 2000 Chinese Elementary School Textbooks. The
results indicate that narratives of mothers who talk to their children have weighed with instruction
of knowledge.
4028.62 Self-construal priming and emotional distress: Testing for cultural biases in the concept
of distress, Vinai Norasakkunkit, Asian Association of Social Psychology, USA
In examining why Asians have been shown to consistently score higher on measures of distress
relative to European-Americans, the current study utilized cultural priming to experimentally
show that when Japanese and Americans were primed to access a relatively more Western (i.e.,
“independent”) mode of thought, they tended to score lower on social-anxiety relative to those not
primed to activate such a mode of thought. Yet, such an activation did not influence levels of
general well-being for Japanese or Americans, thereby suggesting a cultural bias in the concept of
social-anxiety and ideals for well-being that are tacitly embedded in anxiety measures.
4028.63 Age of message recipient moderates collectivism reflection in advertisements, Kenji
Hanita, Tetsuya Nihei, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
We examined the extent to which a core dimension of cultural values; individualism in Western
countries and collectivism in Eastern countries, is reflected in Canadian and Japanese television
advertisements. Previous research has overlooked age of message recipients as a moderating factor.
In view of the recent westernization of young Japanese people, the present research hypothesized
that cultural differences are moderated by the age of message recipients. Overall, the content
analysis showed that Japanese ads tended to employ more collectivistic appeal. As predicted,
however, Japanese ads aimed at young adults had less collectivistic appeal than ads for the
middle-aged.
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