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Liu, Ruth X. – Youth & Society, 2016
This study assesses the effects of attachment to paternal grandparents on Chinese adolescent adjustment in the domains of school bonding, peer associations, and self-views, and whether such effects may differ for adolescent boys and girls. Drawing on survey responses of 2,117 middle school students from Fuzhou City, China, regression analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attachment Behavior, Grandparents, Adolescents
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Bao, Wan-Ning; Haas, Ain; Chen, Xiaojin; Pi, Yijun – Youth & Society, 2014
In Agnew's general strain theory, repeated strains can generate crime and delinquency by reducing social control and fostering social learning of crime. Using a sample of 615 middle-and high-school students in China, this study examines how social control and social learning variables mediate the effect of repeated strains in school and at home on…
Descriptors: Crime, Delinquency, Social Theories, Middle School Students