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Chen, Xi; Chen, Xinyin; Zhao, Siman; Way, Niobe; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Zhang, Guangzhen; Deng, Huihua; Cao, Ruixin; Chen, Huichang; Li, Dan – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examined toddlers' autonomy- and connectedness-oriented behaviors and mothers' encouragement of autonomy and connectedness in two cohorts (1995 and 2008) in urban China. Observational data were collected from Chinese children and their mothers in a laboratory free play session. The results showed that compared with children in the 1995…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
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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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Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Way, Niobe; Chen, Xinyin – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
Social ecological and dynamic systems theories propose that human development is shaped by the cumulative impact of social interactions in proximal and distal settings, which are themselves influenced by social and economic forces. The understanding of the links between microsystem-level factors (such as parenting styles and parent-child…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Economic Change, Child Development
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Zhao, Siman; Chen, Xinyin; Wang, Li – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
This study examined the relations of maternal warmth, behavioral control, and encouragement of sociability to social, school, and psychological adjustment in migrant children in China. The participants were 284 rural-to-urban migrant children (M age = 11 years, 149 boys) in migrant children's schools and their mothers. Data on parenting were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Emotional Adjustment, Affective Behavior
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Liu, Mowei; Chen, Xinyin; Zheng, Shujie; Chen, Huichang; Wang, Li – Social Development, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine the contributions of maternal encouragement of autonomy and maternal encouragement of connectedness to the prediction of children's social behaviors. A sample of children (N = 94), initially aged two years, and their mothers in China participated in the two-year longitudinal study. Child autonomy and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Peer Relationship
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Wang, Li; Chen, Xinyin; Chen, Huichang; Cui, Liying; Li, Miao – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
Emotional control has traditionally been emphasized in Chinese culture. The primary purpose of the study was to examine the relevance of early affect to social functioning in Chinese children. A sample of children, initially at two years of age, and their mothers in the People's Republic of China participated in this two-year longitudinal study.…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Mothers, Asian Culture, Child Rearing
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Liu, Mowei; Chen, Xinyin; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Zheng, Shujie; Cui, Liying; Li, Dan; Chen, Huichang; Wang, Li – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
The purpose of the study was to investigate maternal socialization goal-oriented behaviours in Chinese and Canadian mothers. Participants were samples of children at 2 years of age and their mothers in P.R. China and Canada. Data on child autonomy and connectedness and maternal encouragement of autonomy and connectedness were collected from…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship