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Lam, Shui-fong; Shum, Kathy Kar-man; Chan, Winnie Wai Lan; Tsoi, Emily Wing See – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Schools around the world are increasingly diverse in ethnicity. Given the importance of peer acceptance in children's well-being and development, it is a pressing concern for educators to promote intergroup acceptance in schools. Aims: First, to examine the developmental trends of acceptance of outgroup members in both the ethnic…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Law, Yin-kum; Lam, Shui-fong; Law, Wilbert; Tam, Zoe W. Y. – Educational Psychology, 2017
Peer acceptance is an important facilitator for the success of inclusive education. The aim of the current study is twofold: (1) to examine how classroom goal orientation is associated with children's acceptance of peers with learning difficulties; and (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of a storytelling programme with drama techniques on…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Elementary School Students, Goal Orientation, Story Telling
Wong, Tracy K. Y.; Siu, Angela F. Y. – School Mental Health, 2017
The first part of this study explored the association between school climate and students' well-being (i.e., school life satisfaction, academic satisfaction and perceived popularity) within the Chinese school context. Two hundred and twenty-one secondary school students in Hong Kong participated in this exploratory study. Due to the lack of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Well Being, Student Satisfaction, Academic Achievement
Liu, Sylvia; Yuen, Mantak; Rao, Nirmala – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2015
This exploratory study involved a structured group-games intervention to develop first-grade students' social competence. The effects were evaluated by assessing possible outcomes for the children's social status. A sample of 119 first-grade, mixed-ability students from a Hong Kong primary school participated in the sessions (63 boys, 56 girls:…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Competence
Li, Wing Ling; Poon, Jelena C. Y.; Tong, Toby M. Y.; Lau, Sing – Educational Psychology, 2013
Previous research in the literature on the relationships between creativity and psychological adjustment tended to use only one or two sources of creativity assessment and focus on a few aspects of adjustment. To examine creative children's psychological adjustment more thoroughly, this exploratory study assessed children's creativity from…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Elementary School Students, Creativity, Scores
Lu, Jiamei; Li, Daqi; Stevens, Carla; Ye, Renmin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
Using Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012, an international education database, this study analyzed the evaluations of computer use for academic learning by 15-year-old students from seven Edu-systems (unit in PISA) in Eastern Asia. Six variables were identified in association with students' evaluations of computer use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education
Schwartz, David; Tom, Shelley R.; Chang, Lei; Xu, Yiyuan; Duong, Mylien T.; Kelly, Brynn M. – Social Development, 2010
This study attempted to validate distinctions between popularity and social acceptance in the cultural context of Hong Kong. We recruited 280 Chinese children (132 girls, 148 boys, mean age = 9.5) from Hong Kong primary schools. These children completed a peer nomination inventory assessing popularity, social acceptance, social rejection,…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Assertiveness, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context
Chang, Lei; Liu, Hongyun; Fung, Kitty Y.; Wang, Yan; Wen, Zhonglin; Li, Hongli; Farver, JoAnn M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
Tested on a sample of 1,365 Hong Kong primary school students from five grades, teacher preference or the extent to which the classroom teacher likes a child in the class was found to both mediate and, to a lesser extent, moderate the relations between children's social behaviors and peer acceptance across age groups. The mediating effect suggests…
Descriptors: Social Status, Foreign Countries, Peer Acceptance, Social Behavior
Chan, David W. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2005
This study examined the structure of social coping across 2 age groups of 716 Chinese gifted children and youths based on 7 social coping strategies assessed by the Chinese Social Coping Questionnaire. To evaluate whether these strategies could be applied adequately to younger as well as older students, 3 models hypothesizing different degrees of…
Descriptors: Gifted, Foreign Countries, Coping, Questionnaires
Lau, Sing; Li, Wing-Ling – Creativity Research Journal, 1996
A study involving 633 Grade five Chinese students in Hong Kong found significant sex and popularity group differences in peer-nominated creativity and popularity group differences in teacher-rated creativity. Overall, peer status and perceived creativity were highly related. Students perceived boys as more creative than girls. (DB)
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Chan, David W. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2004
This study explored the relationships between social coping and psychological distress in a sample of Chinese students in Hong Kong. These students, nominated by their schools to join university gifted programs, were assessed with respect to their nonverbal IQ (nonverbal reasoning) social coping strategies in response to being gifted, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Peer Acceptance, Intelligence Quotient