Attributions of Deviance to Self and Peers by Japanese and U.S. Students.

Y

15

Behavior Problems; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; Grade 11; Grade 5; Higher Education; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Student Attitudes; Student Behavior; Student Reaction

0022-4545

Examines self-enhancement bias among 5th and 11th graders in the United States and Japan by having students listen to stories describing behaviors (aggressive, depressive, oppositional, and school-phobic) of hypothetical peers. Reports that U.S. students showed no greater self-enhancement tendencies, while 11th graders rated themselves less like deviant characters and different from peers. (CMK)

2001

EJ617087