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Using a mixed-methods design, this research explores three main questions – 1) how do teachers’ and parents’ ratings for child temperament differ for children of different ethnicities? 2) what kind of peer engagement styles do SAA children exhibit, and how do these styles differ based on temperamental differences? and 3) what are SAA parents’ perceptions about their children’s cultural socialization and how it affects their peer engagement? Data for the study comes from a sample of six children ages three to five from a preschool center in a large mid-western state in the United States (66% female; 50% South Asian American, 33% White, 16% Multiple Races). The collected data included demographic information from the parent about the child and their family, temperament data from teachers and parents, observational data on children’s peer interactions in the classroom, and interviews with parents asking them about their home culture and their children’s peer interactions. 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