Lost in translation: methodological considerations in cross-cultural research.

By Elizabeth Peña. Child Development, 2007

611 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. E. Usher
2. Robert M. Klassen
3. P. Bressoux
4. Gwénaëlle Joët
5. Caroline F. Mansfield
6. A. Woods-McConney
7. Vivien S. Huan
8. Angela F. Y. Siu

In Education

1. E. Usher
2. P. Bressoux
3. Gwénaëlle Joët
4. Robert M. Klassen
5. M. Wong
6. Caroline F. Mansfield
7. A. Woods-McConney
8. Vivien S. Huan

In Language and Linguistics

1. Caroline F. Mansfield
2. A. Woods-McConney
3. Vivien S. Huan
4. Angela F. Y. Siu
5. E. Purwanto
6. P. Bressoux
7. Wan Har Chong
8. Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

Citations in the corpus

• Teachers’ Collective Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Job Stress in Cross-Cultural Context (2010, methodology): “For example, we used a team or committee approach to the translation–back-translation process that allows for multiple checks on functional and cultural validity ( Pena, 2007 ).”
• Teachers’ Engagement at Work: An International Validation Study (2012, methodology): “First, we used a team approach to the translation-back translation process that allows for multiple checks on functional and cultural validity (Peña, 2007).”
• Is the ideal mother a sensitive mother? Beliefs about early childhood parenting in mothers across the globe (2016, methodology): “In Israel, a dual-focus approach was used in which individuals from each of the linguistic groups develop the wording of the instructions and questions simultaneously in order to facilitate equality in clarity rather than linguistic equivalence (Peña, 2007).”
• Cultural Approaches to Parenting (2012, background): “For example, studies that compare cultural groups often require the collection of data in different languages, and the instruments used in such comparisons must be rendered equally valid across cultural groups (Peña, 2007).”
• Exploring the validity of a teachers’ self-efficacy scale in five countries (2009, methodology): “First, we used a team or committee approach to the translation-back translation process that allows for multiple checks on functional and cultural validity (Peña, 2007).”
• Sources of self-efficacy: An investigation of elementary school students in France. (2011, methodology): “We used a team approach to back-translate and translate each item, a process that permitted us to conduct multiple checks on functional and cultural validity (Peña, 2007).”
• Measuring early childhood development at a global scale: Evidence from the Caregiver-Reported Early Development Instruments (2018, neutral): “S.-based) populations (Peña, 2007).”