TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Unsociability, peer rejection, and loneliness in Chinese early adolescents: testing a cross-lagged model
JO  - Journal of early adolescence
A1  - Xiao, Bowen
A1  - Bullock, Amanda
A1  - Liu, Junsheng
A1  - Coplan, Robert
SP  - 865
EP  - 885
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0272-4316
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272431620961457
ID  - ref1
ER  -