@article{ref1,
title="Unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness in Chinese early adolescents: testing a cross-lagged model",
journal="Journal of early adolescence",
year="2021",
author="Xiao, Bowen and Bullock, Amanda and Liu, Junsheng and Coplan, Robert",
volume="41",
number="6",
pages="865-885",
abstract="In this study, we explored the longitudinal linkages among Chinese early adolescents' unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness. Participants were N = 445 primary school students in Shanghai, P.R. China followed over 3 years from Grades 6 and 7 to Grades 8 and 9. Measures of adolescents' unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness were obtained each year from a combination of self-reports and peer nominations. Among the results, (1) compared with the unidirectional and bidirectional models, the cross-lagged model was deemed the best fit for the data; (2) adolescent unsociability contributed to later increases in loneliness via a pathway through peer rejection; and (3) loneliness directly contributed to later increases in unsociability. <br><br>RESULTS are discussed in terms of the implications of unsociability for Chinese adolescents' experience of peer rejection and subsequent loneliness.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0272-4316",
doi="10.1177/0272431620961457",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272431620961457"
}