ArticleThe American journal of orthopsychiatry2021
Chinese only children and loneliness: Stereotypes and realities.
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- Understanding the Development of Chronic Loneliness in Youth.Child development perspectives · 2024Article
- Evaluative Skill in the Creative Process: A Cross-cultural Study.Thinking skills and creativity · 2023Article
- Association of relative deprivation with loneliness and its underlying mechanisms: Evidence from Chinese migrant children.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Popular media has aroused concern that Chinese only children are growing up lonely owing to their lack of sibling interaction Mu et al. (2007). However, little research has been directed at determining whether Chinese adults believe in the only-child-as-lonely stereotype and whether Chinese only children actually suffer more loneliness than their peers with siblings. Three studies were conducted to examine belief in the only-child-as-lonely stereotype and determine whether only children report greater loneliness than children with siblings. With the first study, the prevalence of the only-child-as-lonely stereotype among young adults from six cities (Study 1,
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