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

Xuechen Ding; Xinyin Chen; Rui Fu; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu

doi:10.1007/s10802-019-00583-w

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

Xuechen Ding
, Xinyin Chen
, Rui Fu
, Dan Li^*
, Junsheng Liu

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Psychology and Cognitive Science

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	289-300
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
Volume	48
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-019-00583-w
State	Published - 1 Feb 2020

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Migrant and non-migrant children
Shyness
Unsociability

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