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Zhang, Linlin; Eggum-Wilkens, Natalie D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the differentiation and correlates of shyness and unsociability during early adolescence in urban and rural China. Participants were 93 urban and 229 rural Chinese sixth- to eighth-graders. Students rated their shyness, unsociability, fear of negative evaluation, self-efficacy for peer interactions, and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Shyness, Rural Areas, Cultural Context
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Casas, Ferran; Sarriera, Jorge Castella; Alfaro, Jaime; Gonzalez, Monica; Malo, Sara; Bertran, Irma; Figuer, Cristina; da Cruz, Daniel Abs; Bedin, Livia; Paradiso, Angela; Weinreich, Karin; Valdenegro, Boris – Social Indicators Research, 2012
The 7-item adult version of the Personal Wellbeing scale (Cummins et al. Social Indic Res 64:159-190, 2003) was administered to two samples of adolescents aged 12-16 in Brazil (N = 1,588) and Spain (N = 2,900), and to a sample of adolescents aged 14-16 in Chile (N = 843). The results obtained were analyzed to determine its psychometric…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Reliability, Factor Structure, Adolescents
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Sugimura, Kazumi; Yamazaki, Mizuki; Phinney, Jean S.; Takeo, Kazuko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
This study examined the ways in which Japanese adolescents handle disagreements with parents, and the extent to which the cultural values of emotional bonds within the family predict adolescents' reported handling of disagreements. Adolescents (N = 1029), aged 12 to 25 years, reported their projected actions in response to six hypothetical…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Structural Equation Models, Adolescents, Values