@article{ref1,
title="Self-perceived competence in Mainland China: a multiwave longitudinal examination of internalizing symptoms in Chinese adolescents",
journal="Journal of research on adolescence",
year="2015",
author="Cohen, Joseph R. and Sheshko, Dana M. and Ames, Alyssa M. and Young, Jami F. and Hansford, Amy P. and Zhu, Xiongzhao and Yao, Shuqiao and Abela, John R. Z.",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="564-579",
abstract="The present 9-wave, 2-year study examined whether Cole's (1991) theory of self-perceived competence could help explain vulnerability to depressive and anxiety symptoms in a sample of adolescents from mainland China. Participants included 624 adolescents (319 females and 305 males) from an urban school in Changsha (n = 308) and from a rural school in Liuyang (n = 316). <br><br>FINDINGS showed that self-perceived academic competence was negatively associated with prospective depressive and anxiety symptoms. Meanwhile, adolescents with low levels of self-perceived social competence were at heightened risk for depressive symptoms during times of increased stressors (supporting a vulnerability-stress model). These findings advance past research by highlighting new developmental pathways for depressive and anxiety symptoms in Chinese adolescents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1050-8392",
doi="10.1111/jora.12146",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12146"
}