The goal of this project is to understand the factors that promote the development of children's motivational and emotional functioning in diverse cultural contexts. In collaboration with Beijing Normal University, we are examining how attributes of children's environments (e.g., their parents' practices and their friends' characteristics) and attributes of children themselves (e.g., their self-views and their achievement histories) shape children as they make the transition to adolescence. Children living in the Chicago vicinity and the Beijing vicinity are being followed as they make their way through the two years of junior high school. They and their teachers are completing a set of questionnaires twice each year.