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Relations of Shyness-Sensitivity and Unsociability with Adjustment in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence in Suburban Chinese Children
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Liu, Junsheng; Chen, Xinyin; Zhou, Ying; Li, Dan; Fu, Rui; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This study examined how shyness-sensitivity and unsociability were associated with social, school, and psychological adjustment in Chinese children and adolescents. Participants included 564 children (272 boys, M[subscript age] = 9 years) and 462 adolescents (246 boys, M[subscript age] = 13 years) in a suburban region in China. Data were obtained…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Social Development, Student Adjustment
Social and Psychological Adjustment of Chinese Canadian Children
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Chen, Xinyin; Tse, Hennis Chi-Hang – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
This study examined social and psychological adjustment of immigrant and Canadian-born Chinese children in Canada. Participants included a sample of elementary school children (N = 356, M age = 11 years). Data on social functioning, peer relationships, school-related social competence, perceived self-worth, and loneliness were collected from peer…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Elementary School Students, Cultural Activities
Uncertainty Orientation in Chinese Children: Relations with School and Psychological Adjustment
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Wang, Zhengyan; Chen, Xinyin; Sorrentino, Richard; Szeto, Andrew C. H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine uncertainty orientation and its relations with school and psychological adjustment in Chinese children. A sample of elementary school children in P.R. China, aged 10 to 12 years, participated in the study. Data concerning uncertainty orientation, academic performance and socio-emotional adjustment were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Problems, Academic Achievement, Emotional Adjustment
Social Withdrawal and Maladjustment in a Very Group-Oriented Society
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Valdivia, Ibis Alvarez; Schneider, Barry H.; Chavez, Kenia Lorenzo; Chen, Xinyin – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
Elementary-school children in Cuba and Canada participated in measures of loneliness, sociometric status, friendship, aggression, and social withdrawal. Withdrawal was associated with loneliness in the Cuban data from both cohorts, Grade 4 and Grade 6. In the Canadian data, withdrawal was only linked to loneliness in Grade 6. In contrast with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Measures (Individuals), Psychological Patterns