Toni Falbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 90389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toni Falbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toni |
| FAMILY NAME | Falbo |
| SIGNATURE | FALBO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7051-5569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Chinese only children and loneliness
345 and 210, respectively). Results from Studies 2 and 3 consistently showed that, contrary to the stereotype, Chinese only children reported lower levels of loneliness than their counterparts with siblings. Additionally, open-ended responses from the adolescent participants in Study 3 provided hints about the situations that provoke their loneliness. The results are explained in terms of the two theoretical approaches to loneliness. In sum, our …
Culture Moderates the Relationship between Family Obligation Values and the Outcomes of Korean and European American College Students
Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean ( n = 249) and European American ( n = 251) college students. The results provided support fo…
China’s only children and psychopathology
The goal of this study is to synthesize quantitatively the results of studies of psychopathology among Chinese only children. Since 1979, China's 1-child policy has generated large numbers of only children, especially in large urban centers, where the 1-child family has become a social norm. Motivated by concern for mental health, 22 studies, based on the SCL-90, have been published that compare the scores of only children to their peers with sib…
Alternate models of sibling status effects on health in later life
Although siblings are thought to be influential in child development, little is known about the influence of sibling status on the health of older adults. Using structural equation modeling, the authors created and tested a series of models with data from a sample (N = 3,968) of 1957 high school graduates from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The results indicated that socioeconomic status of origin, adolescent aptitude, and educational attainme…
A Longitudinal Study of the Adaptation of International Students in the United States
The authors conducted a longitudinal study of international students ( N = 90) attending a U.S. university to examine the effects of the initial cross-cultural transition on their psychological well-being and social and academic adaptations. The results indicate a significant decline in self-reports of psychological well-being, increased identification with the host culture, and stable identification with home cultures. Students who exhibit a sep…
The influence of Mayan education on middle school students in Guatemala
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Mayan education on the academic achievement of Indian and Ladino middle school students (N = 353) in Guatemala. This study also examined changes in ethnic identity achievement and the effects of changes in ethnic identity achievement on gains in self-esteem and other-group attitudes. Superior gains in academic skills for both Ladino and Indian students attending Mayan schools were found. T…
Cyber communication
The Korean diasporic experience
Parental Involvement during the Transition to High School
In this article, the authors conducted a study to discover what types of parent involvement are effective as students make the transition to high school.This study also aimed to elaborate on the role parents play in connecting their children to desirable peer networks during this transition.In-home interviews were conducted with 26 students as well as their parents before and after entering high school.The successfulness of the students’ transiti…
The Korean diasporic experience
The measurement and development of ethnic identity of Koreans living in the United States and China were examined in the context of different migration experiences. Three hundred sixteen undergraduate college students were administered the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; J. S. Phinney, 1992). Separate principal-component analysis for each sample was performed to create cross-culturally equivalent Ethnic Identity and Other-Group subscale…
The Two Sexes
Latino High School Graduation
Self-Enhancing Illusions among Chinese Schoolchildren
A study (N = 4,000) was conducted to determine if specific forms of self-enhancing illusions could be found among Chinese schoolchildren. The sample was representative of third- and sixth-grade schoolchildren from four provinces of the People's Republic of China. The authors found evidence for three kinds of self-enhancing illusions among Chinese children. First, they strongly preferred describing themselves and their classmates with positive att…
Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility
Relationships between marital satisfaction, resources, and power strategies
The Impact of Grandparents on Children's Outcomes in China
No abstract available for this article
Academic Performance and Personality Traits of Chinese Children
This study was undertaken to determine whether the academic and personality outcomes of only children in China are similar to those of only children in the West. Several reviews of the extensive Western literature indicate that only children are remarkably similar to children with siblings. The few differences between them are concentrated in academic areas, where only children have the advantage. In China few children grew up without siblings un…
Physical, achievement and personality characteristics of Chinese children
The physical, achievement, and personality characteristics of Chinese schoolchildren are evaluated. The results of two surveys of Chinese schoolchildren, conducted in Beijing and Jilin Province, are presented. In the Beijing sample, the differences between only children and others were small but statistically significant, with the only children having higher scores in achievement and physical size. In the Jilin Province sample, the differences be…
The Intellectual Achievement of Only Children
A quantitative review of the literature on the intellectual achievement of only children indicated that only children were never at a disadvantage in relation to any comparison group; nor were they significantly different from first-born children or children from two-child families. Moreover, only children were at a significant advantage in comparison with later-born children and those from large families. The consistency of these findings across…
Only Children and Personality Development
A quantitative review of the literature on the personality characteristics of only children was conducted to provide a baseline, archival resource on 16 different personality domains and to advance theory in the area of family configuration effects on personality development. This review combined the results of 141 studies and found that only children scored significantly better than other groups in achievement motivation and personal adjustment.…
Perceptions of Authority and the Power Strategies Used by Clergymen
This study tested the assumption that there is a direct correspondence between a clergyman's perception of his authority and the power strategies he uses to influence his congregation. Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic clergymen (N = 96) responded to a mail-survey. The results provided weak support for the assumption that clergymen use preferentially those strategies consistent with their basis of authority. The single incidence of a correspond…
Quantitative review of the only child literature
Six meta-analyses of the research literature on the only child were conducted in order to evaluate the status of the only child and to guide theory development in this area. The 117 studies included here generated enough information to justify six meta-analyses: Achievement Adjustment Character Intelligence Mental Illness and Sociability. Only children are found to surpass all others except firstborns and people from two-child families in Achieve…
Quantitative review of the only child literature
Self-righteousness
The Single-Child Family
Power strategies in intimate relationships
A study was conducted to generate (a) a model of power strategies used in intimate relationships and (b) information regarding the associations between gender, sexual orientation, egalitarianism, and power strategy use. Participants in this study were 200 university students (100 homosexuals and 100 hetero-sexuals) evenly divided by gender. A two-dimensional model was devised based on the strategies written in open-ended essays. These two dimensi…
Multidimensional scaling of power strategies
The Korean diasporic experience
The measurement and development of ethnic identity of Koreans living in the United States and China were examined in the context of different migration experiences. Three hundred sixteen undergraduate college students were administered the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; J. S. Phinney, 1992). Separate principal-component analysis for each sample was performed to create cross-culturally equivalent Ethnic Identity and Other-Group subscale…
Relationships between marital satisfaction, resources, and power strategies
A Longitudinal Study of the Adaptation of International Students in the United States
The authors conducted a longitudinal study of international students ( N = 90) attending a U.S. university to examine the effects of the initial cross-cultural transition on their psychological well-being and social and academic adaptations. The results indicate a significant decline in self-reports of psychological well-being, increased identification with the host culture, and stable identification with home cultures. Students who exhibit a sep…
Cyber communication
Academic Performance and Personality Traits of Chinese Children
This study was undertaken to determine whether the academic and personality outcomes of only children in China are similar to those of only children in the West. Several reviews of the extensive Western literature indicate that only children are remarkably similar to children with siblings. The few differences between them are concentrated in academic areas, where only children have the advantage. In China few children grew up without siblings un…
Parental Involvement during the Transition to High School
In this article, the authors conducted a study to discover what types of parent involvement are effective as students make the transition to high school.This study also aimed to elaborate on the role parents play in connecting their children to desirable peer networks during this transition.In-home interviews were conducted with 26 students as well as their parents before and after entering high school.The successfulness of the students’ transiti…
The costs of selecting power bases or messages associated with the opposite sex
The Impact of Grandparents on Children's Outcomes in China
No abstract available for this article
Relationships Between Sex, Sex Role, and Social Influence
A study (N = 60) was conducted to investigate the relationship between sex, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, and measures of social influence. These influence measures involved self-reports of influence strategies, peer evaluations after group discussions, the Marlowe-Crowne Social-Desirability Scale, and a conformity paradigm. It was found that regardless of the subject's sex, masculine and androgynous persons received more positive peer evaluations …
PAQ Types and Power Strategies Used in Intimate Relationships
A study was conducted to examine the kinds of power strategies used by Masculine, Feminine, Androgynous, and Undifferentiated people in their intimate relationships. Heterosexual college students (50 men and 50 women) de scribed the power strategies they used in a current or past romantic/sexual relationship, described other aspects of their relationships and themselves, and completed the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ). The data were ana…
Gender differences in perceptions of leadership
Self-Enhancing Illusions among Chinese Schoolchildren
A study (N = 4,000) was conducted to determine if specific forms of self-enhancing illusions could be found among Chinese schoolchildren. The sample was representative of third- and sixth-grade schoolchildren from four provinces of the People's Republic of China. The authors found evidence for three kinds of self-enhancing illusions among Chinese children. First, they strongly preferred describing themselves and their classmates with positive att…
Relationships between birth category, achievement, and interpersonal orientation
Toni FalboUniversity of Texas at AustinA study was conducted to examine the relationships between birth category andtwo types of personality characteristics: achievement and interpersonal orien-tations. Hypotheses were generated from theories about the processes underlyinga child's relationships with parents and siblings. Birth category was defined interms of four groups: only, first, middle, and last borns. Subjects (N = 1,785)were undergraduate…
Achievement attributions of kindergarteners
Culture Moderates the Relationship between Family Obligation Values and the Outcomes of Korean and European American College Students
Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean ( n = 249) and European American ( n = 251) college students. The results provided support fo…
Perceptions of Authority and the Power Strategies Used by Clergymen
This study tested the assumption that there is a direct correspondence between a clergyman's perception of his authority and the power strategies he uses to influence his congregation. Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic clergymen (N = 96) responded to a mail-survey. The results provided weak support for the assumption that clergymen use preferentially those strategies consistent with their basis of authority. The single incidence of a correspond…
The One-Child Family in the United States
The developmental outcomes of only children in the US have been found to be greatly affected by 4 groups of factors: 1) the strong cultural expectation that only children are selfish, lonely and maladjusted. These beliefs can influence the judgments of observers and even cause the expected behavior. 2) The voluntariness of having a single child. In the past, Americans choosing to have 1 child were few and tended to be somewhat deviant. Women invo…
The effects of sex and ?masculinity? on person- and space-related perception
The influence of Mayan education on middle school students in Guatemala
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Mayan education on the academic achievement of Indian and Ladino middle school students (N = 353) in Guatemala. This study also examined changes in ethnic identity achievement and the effects of changes in ethnic identity achievement on gains in self-esteem and other-group attitudes. Superior gains in academic skills for both Ladino and Indian students attending Mayan schools were found. T…
The effects of sex and ?masculinity? on person- and space-related perception
Achievement attributions of kindergarteners
Comment On
Relationships Between Sex, Sex Role, and Social Influence
A study (N = 60) was conducted to investigate the relationship between sex, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, and measures of social influence. These influence measures involved self-reports of influence strategies, peer evaluations after group discussions, the Marlowe-Crowne Social-Desirability Scale, and a conformity paradigm. It was found that regardless of the subject's sex, masculine and androgynous persons received more positive peer evaluations …
Multidimensional scaling of power strategies
Sex roles and fertility in college women
Naive psychology and the attributional model of achievement
A bstract Open‐ended explanations for the success and failure outcomes of others were obtained from ( N = 226) undergraduates. Only 23% of the 2,495 explanations generated by these naive psychologists could be readily categorized as one of the four causal elements of the Weiner model of achievement attributions. An individual difference model of multidimensional scaling of the explanations for success and failure was performed separately. Because…
Power strategies in intimate relationships
A study was conducted to generate (a) a model of power strategies used in intimate relationships and (b) information regarding the associations between gender, sexual orientation, egalitarianism, and power strategy use. Participants in this study were 200 university students (100 homosexuals and 100 hetero-sexuals) evenly divided by gender. A two-dimensional model was devised based on the strategies written in open-ended essays. These two dimensi…
Relationships between birth category, achievement, and interpersonal orientation
Toni FalboUniversity of Texas at AustinA study was conducted to examine the relationships between birth category andtwo types of personality characteristics: achievement and interpersonal orien-tations. Hypotheses were generated from theories about the processes underlyinga child's relationships with parents and siblings. Birth category was defined interms of four groups: only, first, middle, and last borns. Subjects (N = 1,785)were undergraduate…
PAQ Types and Power Strategies Used in Intimate Relationships
A study was conducted to examine the kinds of power strategies used by Masculine, Feminine, Androgynous, and Undifferentiated people in their intimate relationships. Heterosexual college students (50 men and 50 women) de scribed the power strategies they used in a current or past romantic/sexual relationship, described other aspects of their relationships and themselves, and completed the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ). The data were ana…
The costs of selecting power bases or messages associated with the opposite sex
The One-Child Family in the United States
The developmental outcomes of only children in the US have been found to be greatly affected by 4 groups of factors: 1) the strong cultural expectation that only children are selfish, lonely and maladjusted. These beliefs can influence the judgments of observers and even cause the expected behavior. 2) The voluntariness of having a single child. In the past, Americans choosing to have 1 child were few and tended to be somewhat deviant. Women invo…
Gender differences in perceptions of leadership
The Single-Child Family
The Single-Child Family
Quantitative review of the only child literature
Six meta-analyses of the research literature on the only child were conducted in order to evaluate the status of the only child and to guide theory development in this area. The 117 studies included here generated enough information to justify six meta-analyses: Achievement Adjustment Character Intelligence Mental Illness and Sociability. Only children are found to surpass all others except firstborns and people from two-child families in Achieve…
Quantitative review of the only child literature
Self-righteousness
Only Children and Personality Development
A quantitative review of the literature on the personality characteristics of only children was conducted to provide a baseline, archival resource on 16 different personality domains and to advance theory in the area of family configuration effects on personality development. This review combined the results of 141 studies and found that only children scored significantly better than other groups in achievement motivation and personal adjustment.…
Perceptions of Authority and the Power Strategies Used by Clergymen
This study tested the assumption that there is a direct correspondence between a clergyman's perception of his authority and the power strategies he uses to influence his congregation. Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic clergymen (N = 96) responded to a mail-survey. The results provided weak support for the assumption that clergymen use preferentially those strategies consistent with their basis of authority. The single incidence of a correspond…
The Intellectual Achievement of Only Children
A quantitative review of the literature on the intellectual achievement of only children indicated that only children were never at a disadvantage in relation to any comparison group; nor were they significantly different from first-born children or children from two-child families. Moreover, only children were at a significant advantage in comparison with later-born children and those from large families. The consistency of these findings across…
Physical, achievement and personality characteristics of Chinese children
The physical, achievement, and personality characteristics of Chinese schoolchildren are evaluated. The results of two surveys of Chinese schoolchildren, conducted in Beijing and Jilin Province, are presented. In the Beijing sample, the differences between only children and others were small but statistically significant, with the only children having higher scores in achievement and physical size. In the Jilin Province sample, the differences be…
Academic Performance and Personality Traits of Chinese Children
This study was undertaken to determine whether the academic and personality outcomes of only children in China are similar to those of only children in the West. Several reviews of the extensive Western literature indicate that only children are remarkably similar to children with siblings. The few differences between them are concentrated in academic areas, where only children have the advantage. In China few children grew up without siblings un…
Relationships between marital satisfaction, resources, and power strategies
The Impact of Grandparents on Children's Outcomes in China
No abstract available for this article
Psychology (36 works) · Developmental psychology (27 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Demography (10 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (6 works)