Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
2019

Relations of Shyness and Unsociability with Adjustment in Migrant and Non-migrant Children in Urban China (Article)

Ding X. , Chen X. , Fu R. , Li D.* , Liu J.
  • a Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China
  • b Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216, United States
  • c Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States
  • d Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, China
  • e School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

Abstract

The present study examined the relations of shyness and unsociability with indexes of adjustment in migrant and non-migrant Chinese children. Participants were migrant (n = 413) and non-migrant students (n = 513) in fourth to seventh grades (M age = 11.4 years) in urban China. Data on shyness, unsociability, and adjustment were collected from multiple sources, including peer evaluations, teacher ratings, self-reports, and school records. The results showed that shyness was associated with social and school adjustment problems more evidently in non-migrant children than in migrant children, whereas unsociability was associated with social adjustment problems more evidently in migrant children than in non-migrant children. The results indicate that the functional meanings of children’s social behaviors may differ across contexts. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Author Keywords

Migrant and non-migrant children Shyness Unsociability

Index Keywords

male female teacher China major clinical study shyness Article social adaptation academic achievement human experiment human migrant Self Report Child
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DOI: 10.1007/s10802-019-00583-w
ISSN: 00910627
Original Language: English