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To investigate and compare the topics and content of personal narratives told by typically developing 10-year-old children from three East Asian and three Western English-speaking cultures.

January 1, 2023Folia Phoniatrica et LogopaedicaOpen Access

Topic and Content of Personal Narratives of Children from Three East Asian Cultures and Three English-Speaking Cultures: A Collaborative Qualitative Analysis

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CWCarol WestbyBrigham Young University CKChen Kai-meiChung Shan Medical University JLJisun P. LeeUniversity of New Mexico

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Qualitative study reveals differing story topic frequencies across East Asian and English-speaking children, highlighting the role of cultural factors in speech-language evaluations.

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To investigate and compare the topics and content of personal narratives told by typically developing 10-year-old children from three East Asian and three Western English-speaking cultures.
Assessed personal narratives elicited via the Global TALES protocol from 122 typically developing 10-year-old children across six groups: Mandarin (n=20), Cantonese (n=20), Korean (n=20), USA (n=22), Australia (n=20), and New Zealand (n=20), with equal sex representation.
Transcribed, translated, and coded narrative topic choices using collaborative qualitative content analysis conducted by four native-speaking investigators.
Children across both East Asian and Western English-speaking cultural groups discussed similar overall topics within their personal narratives.
The relative frequency of specific story topics differed between cultural groups, aligning with established anthropological and cultural dimension frameworks.

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Westby et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6f613435aa2c282ce0bf2e https://doi.org/10.1159/000533559

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Qualitative study reveals differing story topic frequencies across East Asian and English-speaking children, highlighting the role of cultural factors in speech-language evaluations.

Topic and Content of Personal Narratives of Children from Three East Asian Cultures and Three English-Speaking Cultures: A Collaborative Qualitative Analysis

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Topic and Content of Personal Narratives of Children from Three East Asian Cultures and Three English-Speaking Cultures: A Collaborative Qualitative Analysis

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