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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
Family Relationships and Family Predictors of Psychological Distress in Emerging Adult College Students: A 3-Year Study
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María del Carmen García-Mendoza; Águeda Parra Jiménez; Enrique Bernardino Arranz Freijo; Jeffrey Arnett; Inmaculada Sánchez Queija – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
During emerging adulthood, family relationships remain salient. This study examined, from a gender perspective, continuity/discontinuity and stability/instability in family relationships, in a two-time repeated-measures study with Spanish emerging adult college students. It also analyzed the implications of the quality of parent--child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Young Adults, Family Relationship
Associations between Attachment and Emotion-Specific Emotion Regulation with and without Relationship Insecurity Priming
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Clear, Sarah J.; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Attachment theory and previous research on emotion regulation (ER) suggest that ER will be associated with adult attachment orientation, with the expectation of different associations of attachment avoidance, anxiety, and security with specific ER patterns. In addition, research has shown that the emotion under consideration and the context may…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Security (Psychology), Priming
Birth Cohort Changes in Chinese College Students' Loneliness and Social Support
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Xin, Sufei; Xin, Ziqiang – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
With the dramatic recent changes in Chinese society, Chinese college students' average levels of loneliness and social support might also have changed across their birth cohorts. The present cross-temporal meta-analysis of 56 studies (N = 21,541) found that Chinese college students' scores on the UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3) increased…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychological Patterns, Social Support Groups
The Relationships of Personal and Ethnic Identity Exploration to Indices of Adaptive and Maladaptive Psychosocial Functioning
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Schwartz, Seth J.; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Weisskirch, Robert S.; Rodriguez, Liliana – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Identity exploration has often been associated with maladaptive aspects of psychosocial functioning such as anxiety and depression. It is not known, however, whether maladaptive psychosocial functioning is related to both personal and ethnic identity exploration. In the present study, we examined the relationships of personal and ethnic identity…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Conceptual Tempo, Ethnicity, Depression (Psychology)
Personality and Gender Differences in Friendship Needs and Experiences in Preadolescence and Young Adulthood
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Zarbatany, Lynne; Conley, Ryanne; Pepper, Susan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Personality and gender differences in close same-sex friendship needs and experiences were investigated in two samples. Participants were 312 university students (217 women, M age = 19.5) and 491 preadolescents (269 girls, M age = 11.87). Participants completed several questionnaires yielding scores for communion and agency (personality), communal…
Descriptors: Friendship, Personality Traits, Gender Differences, Psychological Patterns