Although children's school success is a parental goal in most cultures, there is wide cultural variation in the qualities that parents most wish their children to develop for that purpose. A questionnaire contained forty-one child qualities was administered to 757 parents in seven cultural communities in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted separately within each sample and results revealed both similarities and differences across the seven samples. The factor structures showed considerable similarity: four domains of characteristics (Cognitive Qualities, Social Qualities, Negative temperament, and Good Characters) were identified in each sample as strongly influencing children's success in school. However, parents differed across the seven cultural communities in the importance they attributed to these factors. The results also reveal some culturally unique patterns in parents' concepts of the successful schoolchild; the seven samples were differentiated by distinctive associations of individual qualities around the four common domains. These results offer new insights for incorporating perspectives from other cultures into our own concepts of what qualities are most important for children's success in school, and how educators can be cognizant of differing cultural perspectives represented by the families whose children are their students.

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西方七种文化中成功学童的父母观念

尽管在大多数文化中，孩子的学业成功是父母的目标，但父母最希望自己的孩子为此发展的素质在文化上也存在很大差异。对澳大利亚，意大利，荷兰，波兰，西班牙，瑞典和美国的七个文化社区的757名父母进行了问卷调查，其中包含41种儿童素质。探索性因素分析是在每个样本中分别进行的，结果揭示了七个样本之间的相似点和不同点。这些因素的结构显示出很大的相似性：在每个样本中，四个特征域（认知素质，社会素质，负性气质和良好品格）被确定为强烈影响儿童在学校的成功。然而，七个文化社区的父母在归因于这些因素的重要性方面存在差异。研究结果还揭示了成功学童的父母观念中的一些文化上独特的模式。这七个样本是通过围绕四个共同领域的个体品质的独特关联来区分的。这些结果为将其他文化的观点纳入我们自己的概念提供了新的见解，即什么素质对于孩子在学校的成功最重要，以及教育者如何认识以孩子为学生的家庭所代表的不同文化观点。这七个样本是通过围绕四个共同领域的个体品质的独特关联来区分的。这些结果为将其他文化的观点纳入我们自己的观念提供了新的见解，即对于孩子的学业成功最重要的素质是什么，以及教育者如何认识以孩子为学生的家庭所代表的不同文化观念。这七个样本是通过围绕四个共同领域的个体品质的独特关联来区分的。这些结果为将其他文化的观点纳入我们自己的概念提供了新的见解，即什么素质对于孩子在学校的成功最重要，以及教育者如何认识以孩子为学生的家庭所代表的不同文化观点。