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McElwain, Nancy L. McElwain, Nancy L. Bost, Kelly F. Pomerantz, Eva M. Berry, Daniel Chen, Xi 2020-08-27T00:49:56Z 2020-08-27T00:49:56Z 2022-08-27T00:51:40Z 2020-04-21 2020-05 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. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01 The student, Xi Chen, accepted the attached license on 2020-04-16 at 15:47. The student, Xi Chen, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-04-16 at 15:47. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-04-21 at 14:52. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14991 on 2020-08-25 at 17:40:21 Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-27T00:49:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 CHEN-DISSERTATION-2020.pdf: 766890 bytes, checksum: 275eea129f217d399004d92c5c042cd6 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4204 bytes, checksum: 6fc5cb21e19517307c7d36359641c1c2 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4550 bytes, checksum: 67c186a431e6aecdec60b5818916d411 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2020-04-21 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 115867 Lift date: 2022-08-27T00:50:22Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 115867 Lift date: 2022-08-27T00:51:40Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/108253 en Copyright 2020 Xi Chen self-regulation autonomy support parental control cross-cultural transactional process preschoolers challenging problem-solving observation Chinese Maternal autonomy support and control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ behavioral regulation text Thesis Human Dvlpmt & Family Studies Human Dvlpmt & Family Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.