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Feng Zhang; Silin Huang – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Exploring the factors that benefit academic persistence may facilitate adolescents' positive outcomes to increase the likelihood of future success, especially for adolescents with low family socioeconomic status (SES). Previous research has highlighted the merits of both motivational beliefs (e.g., self-efficacy and interests) and learning…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adolescents, Low Income Students, Social Influences
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Xinyin Chen; Jiaxi Zhou; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu; Minghao Zhang; Shujie Zheng; Xianguo Han – Child Development, 2024
The present study examined relations between concern for mianzi, or the social perception of one's prestige and standing in the group, and adjustment in Chinese adolescents. Participants were seventh- and ninth-grade students in rural and urban regions of China (n = 794, M[subscript age] = 14 years). Data were obtained from multiple sources…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Rural Urban Differences, Social Status
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Liu, Ke; Wang, Jing; Wei, Xinyi; Lei, Li – Youth & Society, 2023
Phubbing, the ignoring of one's companions to pay attention to one's phone, is ubiquitous. Yet far less is known about its interpersonal transmission. Based on the social learning theory and the theory of normative social behavior, this cross-sectional study tested the associations between perceived parental phubbing and teenagers' phubbing. Two…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Antisocial Behavior, Correlation
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French, Doran C.; Shen, Mengqian; Jin, Shenghua – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
This longitudinal study was initiated to assess the predictors of peer- and teacher-identified Chinese adolescent leaders. Participants were 764 8th grade (14.42 years, 348 girls) and 783 11th grade (17.67 years, 427 girls) students that completed two waves of data collection separated by 1 year. Prosocial behavior, aggression, and the interaction…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Adolescents, Grade 8
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Zhang, Yuchi; Tang, Yuanqiong; Li, Ping; Jia, Xiaoyu – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Associations between social norms and bullying bystander behaviours have been studied extensively over the years, but the mechanisms by which subjective norms influence bystander behaviours remain unclear. This study is the first to examine whether bystander popularity moderates the association between perceived peer pressure for intervention and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, Bullying
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Chen, Xiaomeng; Liang, Lelin; Lu, Minghui – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
This study explored the effects of visual status and braille reading patterns on the reading accuracy of students with visual impairments in China. The sample consisted of 121 students aged 10-19 years: 48 were students with congenital visual impairments, 25 were students with adventitious visual impairments, and 48 were sighted students. Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Braille, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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Liu, Jindong; Wu, Biying; Qu, Jiayu – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
To tackle the debate surrounding the tension between knowledge and power in online education for adolescents and between freedom and control at large, this study examines how disciplinary power was exercised and resisted in a Chinese setting of online compulsory education during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Overall, 60 participants, including…
Descriptors: Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adolescents
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Jin, Dou; Bi, Yanling; Yan, Miao – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Recent research has shown that internal factors are important predictors of adaptation, but little research has studied the relationship between a sense of coherence and school adaptation. The present study examined the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship. A total of 1,072 middle students completed self-report…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Parenting Styles
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Pan, Jingtong; Zaff, Jonathan F. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
In this research, we examined the construct of a school engagement scale using exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM). This study involved a translated measurement model that was originally developed by Li and Lerner for U.S. youth, and data from a sample of eighth-, ninth-, and 11th-grade Chinese adolescents (N = 364). First, the results…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Youth, Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models
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Lu, Ting; Li, Ling; Niu, Li; Jin, Shenghua; French, Doran C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The concurrent and longitudinal associations between popularity, likeability, and prosocial behavior were evaluated in this three-year study of middle school and high school Chinese adolescents. The initial sample included 766 middle school (mean age = 13.3 years) and 668 high school participants (mean age = 16.6 years); there were 880 (399 girls)…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Adolescents, Peer Acceptance, Middle School Students
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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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Xiong, Junmei; Qin, Yi; Gao, Miaomiao; Hai, Man – School Psychology International, 2017
By incorporating psychopathology and subjective well-being (SWB), the dual-factor model of mental health (DFM) can comprehensively measure psychological health. We examined the utility of the DFM among 1,293 Chinese adolescents (Grades 7-12). Furthermore, we examined the dynamics of mental health group membership via a two-wave longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Mental Health, Adolescents
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Shuster, Michael M.; Li, Yan; Shi, Junqi – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
Interrelations among cultural values, parenting practices, and adolescent aggression were examined using longitudinal data collected from Chinese adolescents and their mothers. Adolescents' overt and relational aggression were assessed using peer nominations at Time 1 (7th grade) and Time 2 (9th grade). Mothers reported endorsement of cultural…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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Li, Bi; Wu, Yan; Wen, Zhonglin; Wang, Mengcheng – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
This article assessed the measurement in variance of the Adolescent Student Burnout Inventory (ASBI) across gender and educational track, and investigated the main and interaction effects of gender and educational track on the facets of student burnout with a sample consisting of 2,216 adolescent students from China. Multigroup confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Burnout, Measures (Individuals)
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Zhang, Wenxin; Li, Hailei; Gong, Yanming; Ungar, Michael – School Psychology International, 2013
This study examines the role of salient external factors (family, peer and school caring relations) and internal factors (goals and aspirations, problem solving and self-efficacy, empathy, and self-awareness) in protecting adolescents experiencing interpersonal problems and academic pressure from depression. A total of 1,297 eighth and ninth grade…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Asians, Depression (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship
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