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Thus, cross-cultural studies should go beyond testing associations between maternal and child behaviors at the population level and examine transactions within a given mother-child dyad (i.e., how the mother and the child respond to changes in each other’s behaviors). In this study, I compared the transactional process of mother-preschooler interaction in small urban areas in the United States (U.S.) (n = 99, 52 boys, M = 56.05 months, SD = 6.44) and China (n = 101, 46 boys, M = 57.41 months, SD = 6.58). From video recordings of mother-child interaction during a 5-min challenging puzzle task, maternal behaviors (autonomy support and control) and child behaviors (attention, agency and defeat) were rated by separate teams of native speakers on 4-point scales in 15-second intervals. Using residualized dynamic structural equation models (RDSEM), I examined (a) within-person fluctuations of maternal autonomy support and control in a given moment (i.e., 15-sec interval) as predictors of child behaviors in the next moment and (b) country as a moderator of these mother-to-child lagged effects. In these models, I also explored child-to-mother lagged effects and controlled for concurrent associations between maternal and child behaviors and autoregressions of the residuals. Limited support for cultural specificity emerged in the within-person lagged effects. Of the six models tested, one showed support for cultural specificity: increases of maternal autonomy support in a given moment (t) predicted increases of child defeat in the next moment (t+1), but only for the Chinese sample. Findings provided more consistent support for cultural commonality. For both samples, within-person increases of maternal control at t predicted decreases of child agency at t+1, and within-person increases of child defeat at t predicted increases of maternal autonomy support at t+1. The within-person lagged associations between maternal behaviors and child attention were nonsignificant. I discussed how these moment-to-moment mother-child transactions may both reflect and maintain cultural differences in overall levels of maternal and child behaviors.","abstract_html":"There has been a long-standing debate over cultural commonality versus specificity regarding implications of maternal autonomy support and control on children’s self-regulation and adjustment. Cross-cultural studies have mainly focused on early adolescence, and the studies in early childhood are limited. Furthermore, the transactional process of mother-child interaction is an important context of socialization. Thus, cross-cultural studies should go beyond testing associations between maternal and child behaviors at the population level and examine transactions within a given mother-child dyad (i.e., how the mother and the child respond to changes in each other’s behaviors). In this study, I compared the transactional process of mother-preschooler interaction in small urban areas in the United States (U.S.) (n = 99, 52 boys, M = 56.05 months, SD = 6.44) and China (n = 101, 46 boys, M = 57.41 months, SD = 6.58). From video recordings of mother-child interaction during a 5-min challenging puzzle task, maternal behaviors (autonomy support and control) and child behaviors (attention, agency and defeat) were rated by separate teams of native speakers on 4-point scales in 15-second intervals. Using residualized dynamic structural equation models (RDSEM), I examined (a) within-person fluctuations of maternal autonomy support and control in a given moment (i.e., 15-sec interval) as predictors of child behaviors in the next moment and (b) country as a moderator of these mother-to-child lagged effects. In these models, I also explored child-to-mother lagged effects and controlled for concurrent associations between maternal and child behaviors and autoregressions of the residuals. Limited support for cultural specificity emerged in the within-person lagged effects. Of the six models tested, one showed support for cultural specificity: increases of maternal autonomy support in a given moment (t) predicted increases of child defeat in the next moment (t+1), but only for the Chinese sample. Findings provided more consistent support for cultural commonality. For both samples, within-person increases of maternal control at t predicted decreases of child agency at t+1, and within-person increases of child defeat at t predicted increases of maternal autonomy support at t+1. The within-person lagged associations between maternal behaviors and child attention were nonsignificant. I discussed how these moment-to-moment mother-child transactions may both reflect and maintain cultural differences in overall levels of maternal and child behaviors.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Chen, Xi"],"institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","degree_name":"Ph.D.","degree_level":"Dissertation","degree_discipline":"Human Dvlpmt & Family Studies","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["McElwain, Nancy L.","Bost, Kelly F.","Pomerantz, Eva M.","Berry, Daniel"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2020,"date_issued":"2020-08-27T00:49:56Z","date_published":"2020-08-27T00:49:56Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:24:48Z","subjects":["self-regulation","autonomy support","parental control","cross-cultural","transactional process","preschoolers","challenging problem-solving","observation","Chinese"],"languages":["en"],"rights":["Copyright 2020 Xi Chen"],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/2142/108253","outbound_label":"Handle","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["McElwain, Nancy L.","Bost, Kelly F.","Pomerantz, Eva M.","Berry, Daniel"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Chen, Xi"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date","label":"Dc Date","values":["2020-08-27T00:49:56Z","2022-08-27T00:51:40Z","2020-04-21","2020-05"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["text","Thesis"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Human Dvlpmt & Family Studies"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Dissertation"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["Ph.D."]},{"key":"thesis:institution_name","label":"Thesis Institution Name","values":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["self-regulation","autonomy support","parental control","cross-cultural","transactional process","preschoolers","challenging problem-solving","observation","Chinese"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language","label":"Dc Language","values":["en"]},{"key":"dc:rights","label":"Dc Rights","values":["Copyright 2020 Xi Chen"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["http://hdl.handle.net/2142/108253"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description","label":"Description","values":["There has been a long-standing debate over cultural commonality versus specificity regarding implications of maternal autonomy support and control on children’s self-regulation and adjustment. 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