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Relationships between child‐rearing practices and primary school children's functional adjustment in the People's Republic of China
Author(s) -
EKBLAD SOLVIG
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1986.tb01199.x
Subject(s) - psychology , china , developmental psychology , people's republic , child rearing , political science , law
The aim of this study was to examine Chinese mothers' child‐rearing practices with boys and girls and to relate these to teachers' ratings of children's functional adjustment in school. The sample consisted of 290 4th grade primary school children (mean age 10.3) in Beuing, the People's Republic of China. Results indicated that the questionnaires—developed in a Western culturc—gave quite meaningful information when used with the Chinese subjects. The findings were well in line with the impressions of Westerns observers that the Chinese child‐rearing is restrictive. The Chinese children, especially girls, seemed to have few adjustment problems. The correlations between mothers' child‐rearing practices and teachers' ratings of children's functional adjustment showed few significant relationships. The sex differences in children's functional adjustment were interpreted to reflect genetic variations in basic predispositions in boys and girls, which had been subtly enlarged by more or less clear, sex‐linked differences in environmental conditions.