Schneider B H
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Dev Psychol. 1998 Jul;34(4):793-7. doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.34.4.793.
Cross-cultural comparison serves a crucial function as a final test of paradigms that emerge in intracultural studies of child and adolescent adjustment and maladjustment. Beliefs about child and adolescent adjustment are inextricably linked to cultural values regarding the place of the individual in society. Socialization practices and coping behaviors differ in adaptive significance according to the economic structure of a society and its value system. It is argued that the doorkeeper function of cross-cultural research is performed most effectively when a wide range of cultures are sampled, for which core beliefs are measured directly and not inferred from the general literature on each culture, and multiple sources of information are tapped.
跨文化比较作为对儿童和青少年适应与适应不良的文化内研究中出现的范式的最终检验，发挥着至关重要的作用。关于儿童和青少年适应的信念与关于个人在社会中地位的文化价值观有着千丝万缕的联系。社会化实践和应对行为根据社会的经济结构及其价值体系在适应性意义上存在差异。有人认为，当对广泛的文化进行抽样时，跨文化研究的守门人功能能得到最有效的发挥，直接测量这些文化的核心信念，而不是从关于每种文化的一般文献中推断出来，并且利用多种信息来源。
