A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Belgian and Vietnamese Children’s Social Competence and Behavior
(2016) Early Education and Development — Vol. 28, n° 4, p. 475-487 (2016)
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- (en) Children’s social competence and behavioral adjustment are key issues for child development, education, and clinical research. Cross-cultural analyses are necessary to provide relevant methods of assessing them for cross-cultural research. The aim of the current study was to contribute to this important line of research by validating the 3-factor structure of the Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation (SCBE-30; LaFrenière & Dumas, 1996) among Belgian and Vietnamese children and by comparing Belgian and Vietnamese children’s social competence and behavioral adjustment. Parent reports were collected relating to 607 children ages 5 to 7: 243 from Belgium and 364 from Vietnam. The results support the universality of the 3-factor structure of the SCBE-30 encompassing social competence, externalizing behavior, and internalizing behavior. They give strong support to the relevance of this theoretically and empirically based instrument for conducting cross-cultural studies. However, they also reveal significant cultural variations with regard to individualist and collectivist values in the 2 countries under consideration.
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Roskam, I., Hoang, T. V., & Schelstraete, M.-A. (2016). A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Belgian and Vietnamese Children’s Social Competence and Behavior. Early Education and Development, 28(4), 475-487. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2016.1248167 (Original work published 2016)