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Coplan, Robert J.; Zheng, Shujie; Weeks, Murray; Chen, Xinyin – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The goal of the present study was to explore attitudes and responses to different forms of social withdrawal in China and Canada. Participants in this study were children in early elementary school in the People's Republic of China (n = 213; 113 boys, 100 girls, M[subscript age] = 6.11 years) and Canada (n = 162; 60 boys, 102 girls, M[subscript…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Age Differences, Vignettes, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Junsheng; Li, Dan; Purwono, Urip; Chen, Xinyin; French, Doran C. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study explored the extent to which loneliness of Indonesian and Chinese adolescents was predicted by their intimacy and conflict with friends and parents. The total sample included 1,833 thirteen- and fifteen-year-old adolescents recruited from urban schools. Boys reported more loneliness than girls, and Chinese boys reported more loneliness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
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Chen, Xinyin; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined the social behavior, social adjustment, and school adjustment of a sample of elementary school students in Shanghai, China. Found that, consistent with studies of Western children, sociability-leadership was associated with and predictive of indexes of adjustment. Inconsistent with Western studies, shyness-sensitivity was positively and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Aggression, Chinese Culture