Professor Jiesi Guo

projects

Cross-Cultural Studies

This theme uses cross-cultural and cross-national comparisons to understand how sociocultural context shapes motivation, self-beliefs, achievement, wellbeing, and educational inequality.

I use cross-cultural, cross-national, and large-scale international data to test how educational and sociocultural contexts shape motivation, self-beliefs, wellbeing, and opportunity. A recurring focus is whether theories developed in one setting generalize across societies.

This theme includes work using PISA, PIRLS/TIMSS, multi-country comparisons, immigrant and Indigenous education contexts, and research on gender equality, inequality, and intercultural education.

Publications in this theme

  • 2026 - The Association Between Student-Teacher Relationship Quality and Students’ School Belonging: A Cross-National Perspective. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0001026.
  • 2026 - A Cultural Explanation of Motivation-Achievement Paradox in Math. Educational Researcher. DOI: 10.3102/0013189x251370677.
  • 2025 - Which social-emotional skills are most important for students’ learning and well-being? An international comparison among China, USA and Finland. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102703.
  • 2024 - Cross-Cultural Patterns of Gender Differences in STEM: Gender Stratification, Gender Equality and Gender-Equality Paradoxes. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-024-09872-3.
  • 2024 - Do intercultural education and attitudes promote student wellbeing and social outcomes? An examination across PISA countries. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.101879.
  • 2023 - Is social media use for math learning beneficial for ethnic minority students’ math identity? A socialization perspective. British Journal of Educational Technology. DOI: 10.1111/bjet.13359.
  • 2023 - Peer victimization: An integrative review and cross-national test of a tripartite model. Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-023-09765-x.
  • 2023 - The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect for reading self-beliefs: A cross-national exploration with PISA 2018. Scientific Studies of Reading. DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2023.2174028.
  • 2023 - The Happy-Fish-Little-Pond Effect on enjoyment: Generalizability across multiple domains and countries. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2023.101733.
  • 2022 - Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous boarders’ and non-boarders’ wellbeing. British Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3792.
  • 2022 - Mastery-approach goals: A large-scale cross-cultural analysis of antecedents and consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000436.
  • 2022 - The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. DOI: 10.1177/01461672221125619.
  • 2021 - Relations of epistemic beliefs with motivation, achievement, and aspirations in science: Generalizability across 72 societies. Journal of Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/edu0000660.
  • 2021 - The immigrant paradox and math self-concept: An SES-of-origin-country hypothesis. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101539.
  • 2020 - Illusory gender-equality paradox, math self-concept, and frame-of-reference Effect: New integrative explanations for multiple paradoxes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000306.
  • 2020 - Psychological Comparison Processes and Self–Concept in Relation to Five Distinct Frame–Of–Reference Effects: Pan–Human Cross–Cultural Generalizability over 68 Countries. European Journal of Personality. DOI: 10.1002/per.2232.
  • 2020 - The Role of Sociocultural Factors in Student Achievement Motivation: A Cross-Cultural Review. Adolescent Research Review. DOI: 10.1007/s40894-019-00124-y.
  • 2019 - Countries, parental occupation, and girls’ interest in science. The Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)30210-7.
  • 2019 - Socioeconomic inequality and student outcomes in Australia. Socioeconomic Inequality and Student Outcomes.
  • 2019 - The Meaning of Motivation to Learn in Cross- National Comparisons: A Review of Recent. The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Studies in Education.
  • 2018 - Cross-cultural generalizability of social and dimensional comparison effects on reading, math, and science self-concepts for primary school students using the combined PIRLS and TIMSS data. Learning and Instruction. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.07.007.
  • 2018 - Inequity and Excellence in Academic Performance: Evidence From 27 Countries. American Educational Research Journal. DOI: 10.3102/0002831218760213.
  • 2018 - Testing Syndromes of Psychopathology in Parent and Youth Ratings Across Societies. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2017.1405352.