Coding open-ended survey responses from 12 cultures : the development of cross-culturally valid measures of parental behaviors that make adolescents feel loved /
There is considerable debate among social scientists about the validity of cross-cultural measures of parenting. We conducted a study using survey data from adolescents in 12 national or ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Balkans, Europe, and the Middle East to determine whether adolescen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Los Angeles, California] :
SAGE,
2014.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | There is considerable debate among social scientists about the validity of cross-cultural measures of parenting. We conducted a study using survey data from adolescents in 12 national or ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Balkans, Europe, and the Middle East to determine whether adolescents validated the substantive content of existing survey measures of supportive parental behaviors. In the survey, adolescents were asked to report, in their own words, what their parents did that made them feel loved. This case study examines the particular challenges of coding brief, open-ended responses to survey questions from different cultural groups. I describe how we developed and implemented a coding scheme that, ideally, allowed for culturally unique parenting behaviors to be measured but also was applicable across cultures. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781473948365 1473948363 |