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Zhu, Jingjing; Li, Yan; Wood, Katherine R.; Coplan, Robert J.; Chen, Xinyin – Early Education and Development, 2019
The goal of this study was to explore links among shyness, receptive vocabulary, and indices of socioemotional functioning in a sample of young children in mainland urban China. In particular, we sought to examine the potential moderating role of receptive language in these relations. Participants were N = 360 young children (200 boys, 160 girls,…
Descriptors: Shyness, Foreign Countries, Young Children, Receptive Language
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Liu, Junsheng; Chen, Xinyin; Li, Dan; French, Doran – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
The market-oriented economic reform in China over the past two decades has resulted in considerable changes in social attitudes regarding youth's behaviors. This study examined the relations of shyness and aggression to adjustment in Chinese adolescents at different historical times. Participants came from two cohorts (1994 and 2008) of…
Descriptors: Shyness, Social Attitudes, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Xinyin; Wang, Li; Cao, Ruixin – Child Development, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine how shyness-sensitivity and unsociability were associated with social, school, and psychological adjustment in rural Chinese children. Participants were third- to fifth-grade students (N = 820; M age = 10 years) in rural schools in P. R. China. Data on shyness-sensitivity, unsociability, and adjustment were…
Descriptors: Shyness, Rural Schools, Social Status, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Xinyin; He, Yunfeng; De Oliveira, Ana Maria; Coco, Alida Lo; Zappulla, Carla; Kaspar, Violet; Schneider, Barry; Valdivia, Ibis Alvarez; Tse, Hennis Chi-Hang; DeSouza, Amanda – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Research on children's loneliness has been conducted mostly in Western, especially North American, cultures. The purpose of the study was to examine relations between loneliness and social adaptation among children and adolescents in four different societies. Methods: A total of 2263 children from grade 3 to grade 6, aged 9 to 12…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context
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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