Young Chinese children's beliefs about the implications of subtypes of social withdrawal: A first look at social avoidance.

Autor:	Ding, Xuechen, Coplan, Robert J., Sang, Biao, Liu, Junsheng, Pan, Tingting, Cheng, Chen
Předmět:	CHILDREN SOCIAL alienation ANALYSIS of variance ATTITUDE (Psychology) CHILD behavior CHINESE people CULTURE EMOTIONS INTERPERSONAL relations INTERVIEWING CASE studies MEDICAL cooperation MOTIVATION (Psychology) RESEARCH RESEARCH funding SOCIAL isolation SOCIAL skills STATISTICS DATA analysis REPEATED measures design DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Zdroj:	British Journal of Developmental Psychology; Jun2015, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p159-173, 15p
Abstrakt:	The goal of this study was to examine young Chinese children's beliefs about the implications of different subtypes of social withdrawal (e.g., shyness, unsociability), including for the first time, social avoidance. Participants were 133 children in kindergarten ( n = 58, Mage = 70.85 months) and grade 1 ( n = 75, Mage = 83.49 months). Children were presented with vignettes describing hypothetical peers displaying shy, unsociable, avoidant, and socially competent behaviours and were then asked a series of questions to assess their beliefs about the implications of these different behaviours. Young children made distinctions between social withdrawal subtypes in terms of underlying motivations and emotions. Children also appeared to hold differential beliefs about the implications of different forms of social withdrawal: Of note, they anticipated that socially avoidant peers would experience the most negative outcomes. These findings provide some of the first evidence to suggest that social avoidance represents a distinct form of social withdrawal among young Chinese children. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of distinguishing between different subtypes of social withdrawal in Chinese culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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