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What Happens after Parental Neglect? Its Enduring Adverse Effect through a Vicious Cycle between Psychological Distress and Student Recognition
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Ying Zhang; Shuangqin Yang – European Journal of Education, 2025
Abundant literature has documented the far-reaching adverse impacts of parental neglect on later intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes. However, the existing research has been limited, neglecting to investigate its enduring effects on various development domains simultaneously. Based on the developmental cascade model, this study investigates…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Child Development, Early Experience, Secondary School Students
Maturation or Disruption? Conscientiousness Development in the Transition into Adolescence
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Ni, Yue; Geldhof, G. John; Chen, Bin-Bin; Stawski, Robert S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Research to date has shown longitudinal changes in conscientiousness during early and middle adolescence, but most studies have been conducted in Western countries. The present study aimed to examine the pattern of mean-level conscientiousness change at the transition into early adolescence among a Chinese sample using curve of factors (CUFFS)…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Children, Consciousness Raising, Gender Differences
Understanding the Development of School Psychology in Mainland China
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D'Amato, Rik Carl; van Schalkwyk, Gertina J.; Zhao, B. Yang; Hu, Juan – School Psychology International, 2013
School psychology is an important area within psychology, which has a short developmental history in Mainland China. Nonetheless, along with economic advances and social changes in Mainland China, school psychology is developing and becoming more important. Currently, people need to work harder and longer. This places many under pressure that may…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Foreign Countries, Social Change, Mental Health
Psychological Development and Educational Problems of Left-Behind Children in Rural China
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Sun, Xiaojun; Tian, Yuan; Zhang, Yongxin; Xie, Xiaochun; Heath, Melissa A.; Zhou, Zongkui – School Psychology International, 2015
With China's rapidly developing economy and increasing urbanization, many adults from rural areas migrate to urban areas for better paid jobs. A side effect of this migration is that parents frequently leave their children behind (left-behind children). This research investigated left-behind children's and non-left-behind children's psychological,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural to Urban Migration, Migrants, Children
Transgender in China
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Jun, Pi – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2010
This autobiographical essay of a Chinese transgender who has grown up in a special social background involves the Chinese family, religion, and some social background to demonstrate the current situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender groups, especially the condition of female-to-male transgender.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Socioeconomic Background, Gender Issues
Growing Up the Chinese Way: Chinese Child and Adolescent Development.
Lau, Sing, Ed. – 1996
This volume is a collection of current research by noted scholars on Chinese child development. The volume re-examines long-held beliefs and preconceptions about Chinese culture, draws forth incompatible pictures and contradictory facts about Chinese children, and draws attention to new problems of the modern Chinese family. The chapters of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, Adolescent Behavior