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Siman Zhao; Xinyin Chen; Heejung Park; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu; Liying Cui – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Self- and group orientations represent distinct ways of perceiving the relations between the world and the self and are relevant to adolescents' development. Most of the existing studies in this area are cross-sectional, providing little information about how self- and group orientations develop. This 3-year longitudinal study examined the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Social Adjustment, Student Behavior
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Wu, Renshuang; Huebner, E. Scott; Tian, Lili – School Psychology, 2020
Gratitude is a human strength that is beneficial for psychosocial adjustment and academic adjustment. This study aimed to examine the (a) heterogeneity and gender differences in the developmental trajectories of gratitude to obtain a more nuanced understanding of the development of gratitude in children, and (b) relations between these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Child Development, Psychological Patterns
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Brunsting, Nelson C.; Mischinski, Megan; Wu, Wenjin; Tevis, Tenisha; Takeuchi, Risa; He, Yueying; Zheng, Yihan; Coverdell, Travis L. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2019
Despite the increase in methodological sophistication and complexity of models being tested for international student adjustment to universities in the United States (U.S.), researchers often do not test or control for salient demographic differences between students, including their educational status (i.e., graduate or undergraduate) and country…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Student Adjustment
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Chung, Angie Y.; Chen, Kenneth; Jung, Gowoon; Li, Muyang – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018
Despite growing scholarly interest in international education, few studies have examined how the broader historic, structural, and cultural contexts of sending nations inform the global perspectives and pedagogical strategies of international students before and after migration. Based on surveys and focus groups with Korean and Chinese…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Foreign Students, Teaching Methods, International Education
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Wang, Meiping; Liu, Siwei; Belsky, Jay – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Most family-system research on triangulation processes has been undertaken in the West, with little known about this family dynamic in the East. The present cross-sectional study analysed 1,073 Chinese 3rd-12th-graders' self-reported exposure to three kinds of triangulation--cross-generation coalition, scapegoating, and parentification--in…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Social Adjustment
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Kingsbury, Mila; Liu, Junsheng; Coplan, Robert J.; Chen, Xinyin; Li, Dan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
The aims of the present study were to (a) examine the factor structure of the "Self-Report Coping Scale" in a sample of Chinese early adolescents and (b) explore associations between coping and socioemotional functioning in this sample. Participants were N = 569 elementary school students (307 boys) in Grades 4 to 6. Participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coping, Stress Variables, Correlation
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Xu, Yiyuan; Zhang, Zengxiu – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
This study examined proactive and reactive aggression and their relation to psychosocial adjustment in three samples (N = 767, 368 girls, M age = 10.03) of Chinese school age children. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that a two-factor model which distinguished both proactive and reactive aggression fit the data reasonably well, and also fit…
Descriptors: Aggression, Gender Differences, Anxiety, Foreign Countries
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Xu, Yiyuan; Farver, Jo Ann M.; Chang, Lei; Zhang, Zengxiu; Yu, Lidong – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This paper reports on three studies of shy behavior in Mainland Chinese children. In Study 1 (N = 107, M age = 10.05), a Chinese Shyness Scale (CSS) was developed based on Chinese teachers' open-ended descriptions of children's shy behavior. In Study 2 (N = 388, M age = 10.80) and Study 3 (N = 198, M age = 10.20), the construct validity of the two…
Descriptors: Shyness, Construct Validity, Validity, Children