Culturally Inclusive Coding Manual for Quantifying the Relationship Between Socialization Goals and Sources

This study focuses on parental socialization goals shaped by the environmental sociological imagination theoretical framework between Beijing and Hong Kong in China, and the United States. We have developed a culturally inclusive quantitative coding manual to analyze the qualitative interviews we completed. The current study included 30 European American and 32 in each Beijing and Hong Kong, with mothers of mean age of 35.67 years. They are primarily well-educated, with most of them holding a college degree and having a high annual household income. Socialization Goal Interview (SGI) was utilized to assess mothers' socialization goals such as desirable/undesirable child characteristics. The goals coded from the interviews were self-maximization, self-regulation, lovingness, decency, and proper demeanor. The interviews were coded based on an existing coding manual by Harwood et al. (1996) and we expanded the manual based on our cross-cultural interviews. First, categories of sources that the goals stemmed were identified. For example, if the mother mentions her family, the source would be family. To deepen our understanding of how these sources are related to the goals, numeric values were assigned to sources. For example, if a mother describes changing her view compared to how she was raised we would code (Internal-) because she disagrees with the source. If she does not have an opinion, remains neutral, or agrees with her source, we would code (Neutral) and (Internal+) respectively. As per (External+) and (External-), for instance, if she talks about seeing people that are unkind to each other in society, and thus wants her kid to be kind, we would code (-2) because her goal and source do not match with each other; vice versa for coding (2). Finally, the frequency across all three steps will be compiled together using excel to observe trends in all three sites.Academic Major: Environmental Scienc