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Chen, Xinyin; Wang, Li; Li, Dan; Liu, Junsheng – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study examined loneliness and its associations with social functioning in children across different historical times and contexts in China. We collected data from urban and rural groups of school-age children (N = 2,588; M age = 10 years) using self-reports and peer assessments. The results indicated that children in 2002 and 2005 urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Social Development, Children
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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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Wang, Li; Long, Di; Li, Zhongquan; Armour, Cherie – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
This present study examined the structure of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a large sample of Chinese adolescents exposed to a deadly earthquake. A total of 2,800 middle school students aged 12 to 18 years participated in the study 6 months after the "Wenchuan Earthquake". Results of confirmatory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Validity, Factor Structure
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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