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Cross-Cultural Measurement of Social Withdrawal Motivations across 10 Countries Using Multiple-Group Factor Analysis Alignment
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Bowker, Julie C.; Sette, Stefania; Ooi, Laura L.; Bayram-Ozdemir, Sevgi; Braathu, Nora; Bølstad, Evalill; Castillo, Karen Noel; Dogan, Aysun; Greco, Carolina; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kim, Hyoun K.; Kim, Yunhee; Liu, Junsheng; Oh, Wonjung; Rapee, Ronald M.; Wong, Quincy J. J.; Xiao, Bowen; Zuffianò, Antonio; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ("Social Preference Scale--Revised"; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; M[subscript age] = 20.08 years,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Withdrawal (Psychology), Motivation, Foreign Countries
Alone with My Phone? Examining Beliefs about Solitude and Technology Use in Adolescence
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Coplan, Robert J.; McVarnock, Alicia; Hipson, Will E.; Bowker, Julie C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
In this study, we examined how technology impacts adolescents' perceptions of, and affective responses to solitude, as well as how adolescents' own motivations for solitude (shyness, affinity for aloneness) were related to these reactions. Participants were N = 437 adolescents (297 girls; M[subscript age] = 16.15 years, standard deviation (SD) =…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Media, Shyness
Relations of Shyness-Sensitivity and Unsociability with Adjustment in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence in Suburban Chinese Children
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Liu, Junsheng; Chen, Xinyin; Zhou, Ying; Li, Dan; Fu, Rui; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This study examined how shyness-sensitivity and unsociability were associated with social, school, and psychological adjustment in Chinese children and adolescents. Participants included 564 children (272 boys, M[subscript age] = 9 years) and 462 adolescents (246 boys, M[subscript age] = 13 years) in a suburban region in China. Data were obtained…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Psychological Patterns, Social Development, Student Adjustment
Keeping It All inside: Shyness, Internalizing Coping Strategies and Socio-Emotional Adjustment in Middle Childhood
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Findlay, Leanne C.; Coplan, Robert J.; Bowker, Anne – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Despite growing research results indicating that shyness is a risk factor for psychosocial maladjustment in childhood, less is known about the conceptual mechanisms that may underlie these associations. The purpose of the current study was to explore links between self-reported shyness, coping strategies and social functioning in middle childhood.…
Descriptors: Shyness, At Risk Persons, Children, Emotional Adjustment