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Liu, Mengting; Chen, Xinyin; Fu, Rui; Li, Dan; Liu, Junsheng – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the contributions of social, academic, and psychological characteristics of peer groups to individual development in the same and different domains in Chinese children. Participants included 1,864 elementary school students (945 boys, M[subscript age] = 11 years) in China. One-year…
Descriptors: Social Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Psychological Characteristics, Foreign Countries
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Setoh, Peipei; Qin, Lili; Zhang, Xin; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This research examined how children's inclusion of social personal attributes (e.g., talkative and argumentative) in their views of themselves changes over early adolescence in the United States and China. In 2 studies (N = 825 in Study 1 and 394 in Study 2) using open-ended methods (e.g., completion of "I ... " stems), American and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Individual Characteristics
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Ma, Estella P.-M.; Yu, Camille H.-Y. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: To investigate the attitudes of school teachers toward children with voice problems in a Chinese population. Method: Three groups of listeners participated in this study: primary school teachers, speech-language pathology students, and general university students. The participants were required to make attitude judgments on 12 voice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, College Students, Speech Language Pathology
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Waerdahl, Randi; Kalmus, Veronika; Keller, Margit – Children & Society, 2011
This paper asks if Estonian and Chinese tweens' access to pocket money influences their brand valuation, as well as value orientations in the context of perceived peer popularity and personal well-being. Surveys conducted in autumns 2006 (China n = 188) and 2007 (Estonia n = 111) show an inherent cultural resistance among tweens in both countries…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis
Huang, Hsiaowen; Shih, Hongyu; Thiruvadi, Sheela; Song, Yiru – Online Submission, 2011
The focus of this study is to explore the lifestyle of international students and also the difficulties faced by them due to the language barrier (difficulty in learning the Chinese language) in Taiwan. Motivation for this study comes from the increasing number of international students, and the related educational policy settings of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
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Chen, Jie-Qi; Goldsmith, Lynn T. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1991
Reviews the research comparing the social and behavioral characteristics of only children and children with siblings in China. Results are mixed, and many of the studies are seen as having methodological flaws. (BB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Chinese, Chinese Culture
Chen, Jie-Qi; Goldsmith, Lynn T. – 1991
This study reviews the literature on the social and behavioral characteristics of only children in China. Of 16 studies that reported differences in the characteristics of only and non-only children, only 2 indicated that only children exhibited more socially desirable behaviors than did non-only children. The remaining studies reported that,…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Classroom Observation Techniques, Foreign Countries