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Liu, Danni; van Dijk, Anouk; Dekovic, Maja; Dubas, Judith Semon – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The differential susceptibility model proposes that some children are more susceptible to both positive and negative peer relationships than others. However, experimental evidence supporting such a proposition is relatively scarce. The current experiment aimed to help address this gap, investigating whether Chinese (pre)adolescents who have higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology)
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Xie, Yuntian; Shi, Zifu; Yin, Lin; Lan, Luo – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2022
This article aimed to examine the relationships between Chinese parenting styles and child academic achievement through a meta-analytical review. After literature screening, 54 studies and 793 independent effect sizes that met the inclusion criteria were incorporated into the analysis (n = 24630). According to the results of the study, positive…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Academic Achievement, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role
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Liu, Ke; Chen, Weiwei; Lei, Li – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Phubbing is suggested to be a new form of social rejection, yet little is known about how people who are being "phubbed" interpret it within different relationships. Based on the social information processing model and the sociometer theory, this cross-sectional study investigated adolescents' attribution for parental phubbing and its…
Descriptors: Correlation, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents, Self Esteem
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Sheer, Vivian C.; Mao, Chang; Yeo, Tien Ee Dominic – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2018
Aims: Cigarette passing and sharing contribute to early smoking onset among Chinese male youth. Refusal efficacy, considered pivotal in smoking prevention, has not been addressed in published research regarding specific refusal tactics and resistant communication behaviours. This focus group study aimed to uncover cigarette resistance responses,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Males, Adolescents
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Chen, Ji-Kang; Chen, Li-Ming – Journal of School Violence, 2020
This study examined the similarities and differences between three distinct Chinese societies (Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China) regarding the contribution of gender and grade level to school violence, the ranking orders of perpetration and victimization behavior, and the correlates of school nonattendance due to violence. A cross-national random…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, Cross Cultural Studies, Gender Differences
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Fu, Xinyuan; Kou, Yu; Yang, Ying – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: Materialistic values among today's adolescents have been a concern around the world, yet few studies concerning Chinese adolescents' materialistic values have been conducted. Additionally, the joint effects of parental rejection and self-esteem on materialistic values remain unclear. Objective: We examined materialistic values in a…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Asians, Values, Parent Child Relationship
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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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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have been incompletely documented, and whether these effects hold across diverse populations and for mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Rejection (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship
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Yuan, Si-Yang; Freeman, Ruth – Health Education Journal, 2011
Objective: To examine if social support in the guise of a culturally sensitive, community-based oral health intervention could promote mother-infant bonding in socially-isolated immigrant mothers. Design: A quasi-experimental design. Participants: A convenience sample of 36 Chinese immigrant mothers with 8-week-old infants was divided into…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Intervention, Health Education
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Chen, Xinyin; Tse, Hennis Chi-Hang – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The purpose of the study was to examine social functioning and adjustment in peer context in Chinese Canadian and European Canadian children. A sample of elementary school children participated in the study. Data on social functioning, peer acceptance and rejection, and victimization were collected from peer assessments and sociometric…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Interpersonal Competence, Adjustment (to Environment), Peer Relationship
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Xu, Tao; Yan, Zhihua; Duan, Song; Wang, Changhe; Rou, Keming; Wu, Zunyou – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2009
We investigated the psychosocial well-being of children in HIV/AIDS-affected families in rural China from the child's and caregiver's perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted among children living in HIV/AIDS-affected families (n = 16), their caregivers (n = 16) and key community informants (n = 5). Our findings showed that all of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Caregiver Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
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Wong, Kwok Sai; Cheuk, Wai Hing; Rosen, Sidney – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2007
The primary objective of this study was to examine whether recurrent rejection of offers of help by peer teachers would induce depersonalization in kindergarten teachers. Another objective was to examine whether a predominantly problem-focused coping style would be more effective than a predominantly emotion-focused coping style in reducing the…
Descriptors: Coping, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Harlin, Rebecca P. – Childhood Education, 2008
Today's children may be exposed to violence in their environment, through the media, at home, and in school. Some children live in countries at war, while others survive in neighborhoods where street gangs prevail. Most parents and children used to assume they could depend upon schools to be safe places, free from abuse and violence. Now it seems…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Antisocial Behavior, Educational Environment
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Chen, Xinyin; DeSouza, Amanda T.; Chen, Huichang; Wang, Li – Developmental Psychology, 2006
In this study, the authors examined relations between reticent behavior in unfamiliar peer situations and experiences in interactions in Chinese and Canadian children. Observational data were collected from samples of children at 4 years of age in the People's Republic of China and Canada. The results indicated that relations between reticent…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology)
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Nelson, Larry J.; Hart, Craig H.; Wu, Bo; Yang, Chongming; Roper, Susanne Olsen; Jin, Shenghua – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
Researchers have identified specific parenting practices used by parents of preschoolers in mainland China (e.g., physical coercion, overprotection, shaming, directiveness, encouragement of modesty). Some of the intrusive practices have been linked to social withdrawal in western societies (e.g., United States, Canada). It seemed important to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
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