201
Views
31
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Birth cohort changes in Chinese adolescents’ mental health

, &
Pages 287-295 | Received 01 Dec 2010, Accepted 01 May 2011, Published online: 08 Dec 2011

References

  • Amato , PR and Keith , B . 1991 . Parental divorce and the well-being of children: A meta-analysis . Psychological Bulletin , 110 ( 1 ) : 26 – 46 .
  • Baltes , PB and Nesselroade , JR . 1972 . Cultural change and adolescent personality development . Developmental Psychology , 7 ( 3 ) : 244 – 256 .
  • Bronfenbrenner , U . 1979 . The ecology of human development , Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Bronfenbrenner , U . 1989 . “ Ecological systems theory ” . In Annals of child development (Vol. 6): Theories of child development: Revised formulations and current issues , Edited by: Vasta , R . 187 – 251 . Greenwich , CT : JAI Press .
  • Chinese Law Yearbook Editorial Board . 2007 . Law Yearbook of China (in Chinese) , Beijing, China : Chinese Law Yearbook Press .
  • Derogatis , LR , Lipman , RS and Covi , L . 1973 . SCL-90: An outpatient psychiatric rating scale—Preliminary report . Psychopharmacology Bulletin , 9 : 13 – 28 .
  • Elder , GH Jr . 1970 . Children of the Great Depression , Chicago , IL : University of Chicago Press .
  • Elder , GH Jr . 1998 . The life course as developmental theory . Child Development , 69 ( 1 ) : 1 – 12 .
  • Elder , GH Jr , Nguyen , TV and Caspi , A . 1985 . Linking family hardship to children's lives . Child Development , 56 ( 2 ) : 361 – 375 .
  • Hao , Z and Cui , L . 2007 . A study on the influence of self-esteem and locus of control on left-at-home children's social adaptation (in Chinese) . Psychological Science , 30 ( 5 ) : 1199 – 1201 .
  • Lauer , RH and Thomas , R . 1976 . A comparative analysis of the psychological consequences of change . Human Relations , 29 ( 3 ) : 239 – 248 .
  • Liu , Z , Gao , W , Wang , T and Wang , Y . 2007 . A study on anxiety characteristics and its influencing factors in children left in rural areas (in Chinese) . Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology , 15 ( 2 ) : 177 – 182 .
  • Ministry of Health . 2007 . China health statistical yearbook (in Chinese) , Beijing, China : Peking Union Medical College .
  • National Bureau of Statistics of China . 2007 . China statistical yearbook (in Chinese) , Beijing, China : China Statistics Press .
  • Ogunseitan , OA . 2005 . Topophilia and the quality of life . Environmental Health Perspectives , 113 ( 2 ) : 143 – 148 .
  • Oliver , MB and Hyde , JS . 1993 . Gender differences in sexuality: A meta-analysis . Psychological Bulletin , 114 ( 1 ) : 29 – 51 .
  • Rosenberg , M . (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
  • Sloan , T . 1996 . Damaged life: The crisis of the modern psyche , New York , NY : Routledge .
  • Tian , L . 2006 . Shortcoming and merits of Chinese version of Rosenberg's (1965) Self-Esteem Scale (in Chinese) . Psychological Exploration , 26 ( 2 ) : 88 – 91 .
  • Tian , W . 2002 . The collapse of traditional large family system (in Chinese) . Zhejiang Academic Journal , 3 : 97 – 98 .
  • Tseng , W-S , Ebata , K , Kim , K-I , Krahl , W , Kua , EH Lu , Q . 2001 . Mental health in Asia: Social improvements and challenges . International Journal of Social Psychiatry , 47 : 8 – 23 .
  • Twenge , JM . 1997a . Attitudes toward women, 1970–1995: A meta-analysis . Psychology of Women Quarterly , 21 ( 1 ) : 35 – 51 .
  • Twenge , JM . 1997b . Changes in masculine and feminine traits over time: A meta-analysis . Sex Roles , 36 ( 5/6 ) : 305 – 325 .
  • Twenge , JM . 2000 . The age of anxiety? Birth cohort change in anxiety and neuroticism, 1952–1993 . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 79 ( 6 ) : 1007 – 1021 .
  • Twenge , JM . 2001a . Changes in women's assertiveness in response to status and roles: A cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1931–1993 . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 81 ( 1 ) : 133 – 145 .
  • Twenge , JM . 2001b . Birth cohort changes in extraversion: A cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1966–1993 . Personality and Individual Differences , 30 ( 5 ) : 735 – 748 .
  • Twenge , JM . 2008 . Generation me, the origins of birth cohort differences in personality traits, and cross-temporal meta-analysis . Social and Personality Psychology Compass , 2 : 1440 – 1454 .
  • Twenge , JM and Campbell , WK . 2001 . Age and birth cohort differences in self-esteem: A cross-temporal meta-analysis . Personality and Social Psychology Review , 5 : 321 – 344 .
  • Twenge , JM , Zhang , L and Im , C . 2004 . It's beyond my control: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of increasing externality in locus of control, 1960–2002 . Personality and Social Psychology Review , 8 ( 3 ) : 308 – 319 .
  • Wang , D and Lin , H . 2003 . The mental health of 284 left-home middle school children (in Chinese) . Chinese Journal of School Health , 24 ( 5 ) : 521 – 522 .
  • World Bank . 2003 . World Bank world development report 2003: Infrastructure for development , Washington , DC : The World Bank .
  • World Bank (2006). New World Bank vice president visits China on first trip. Retrieved September 10, 2008, from http://web.worldbank.org
  • Xin , Z and Chi , L . 2008 . Adolescents in social change (in Chinese) , Beijing, China : Beijing Normal University Press .
  • Xin , Z and Zhang , M . 2009 . Changes in Chinese middle school students’ mental health (1992–2005): A cross-temporal meta-analysis (in Chinese) . Acta Psychologica Sinica , 41 ( 1 ) : 69 – 78 .
  • Xin , Z , Zhang , L and Liu , D . 2010 . Birth cohort changes of Chinese adolescents’ anxiety: A cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1992–2005 . Personality & Individual Differences , 48 ( 2 ) : 208 – 212 .
  • Zhai , H , Shi , Q and Huang , X . 2002 . A study of the factors which influence the formation of the secondary school students’ sense of self-value (in Chinese) . Psychological Science , 23 ( 4 ) : 408 – 412 .
  • Zhao , J , Liu , X and Shen , J . 2008 . Left-home adolescents’ perception of social support networks and their associations with individual depression and loneliness: Variable-centered and person-centered perspectives (in Chinese) . Psychological Development and Education , 23 ( 1 ) : 36 – 42 .
  • Zhong , H and Huang , X . 2003 . The correlation between self-worth and mental health in middle school students (in Chinese) . Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology , 11 ( 1 ) : 31 – 34 .
  • Zhou , Z , Sun , X and Fan , C . 2007 . Psychological development problems of children left in rural areas and their solutions (in Chinese) . Journal of South China Normal University (Social Science Edition) , 12 : 119 – 126 .
  • Zung , WW . 1965 . A self-rating depression scale . Archives of General Psychiatry , 12 : 63 – 70 .
  • Zung , WW . 1971 . A rating instrument for anxiety disorders . Psychosomatics , 12 : 371 – 379 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.