[PDF] The Relationship Of Shyness To Self Consciousness And Social Anxiety Between Japanese And Chinese American College Students eBook

Author : Dante Cicchetti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1155 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1119125537

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Examine the latest research merging nature and nurture in pathological development Developmental Psychopathology is a four-volume compendium of the most complete and current research on every aspect of the field. Volume Four: Genes and Environment focuses on the interplay between nature and nurture throughout the life stages, and the ways in which a child's environment can influence his or her physical and mental health as an adult. The discussion explores relationships with family, friends, and the community; environmental factors like poverty, violence, and social support; the development of coping mechanisms, and more, including the impact of these factors on physical brain development. This new third edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest advances, and to better reflect the increasingly multilevel and interdisciplinary nature of the field and the growing importance of translational research. The relevance of classification in a developmental context is also addressed, including DSM-5 criteria and definitions. Advances in developmental psychopathology are occurring increasingly quickly as expanding theoretical and empirical work brings about dramatic gains in the multiple domains of child and adult development. This book brings you up to date on the latest developments surrounding genetics and environmental influence, including their intersection in experience-dependent brain development. Understand the impact of childhood adversity on adulthood health Gauge the effects of violence, poverty, interparental conflict, and more Learn how peer, family, and community relationships drive development Examine developments in prevention science and future research priorities Developmental psychopathology is necessarily interdisciplinary, as development arises from a dynamic interplay between psychological, genetic, social, cognitive, emotional, and cultural factors. Developmental Psychopathology Volume Four: Genes and Environment brings this diverse research together to give you a cohesive picture of the state of knowledge in the field.

Author : Dong Xie
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Anxiety
ISBN :

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Abstract: The present study investigated the cultural specificity of a number of personality constructs in predicting anxiety across 324 Mainland Chinese and 333 Caucasian American college students. The dependent variables were state and trait anxiety, and social anxiety. The personality constructs that were selected and hypothesized to be cultural-specific predictors were (a) harmony, face, family orientation, modernization, and Ah-Q mentality (Defensiveness), (b) membership, private, public, and identity collective self-esteem, (c) independent and interdependent self construal, and (d) self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribe perfectionism. On between group comparisons, the results indicated that Chinese students scored higher on trait anxiety and social anxiety than Caucasian American students, with the largest effect size on social avoidance. The two groups did not differ on state anxiety. On the Chinese personality constructs, Chinese students scored higher on harmony, family orientation, and modernity. On collective self-esteem, Chinese students scored higher on public collective self-esteem but lower on membership, private, and identity collective self-esteem than Caucasian students. On self-construal, Chinese students scored higher on interdependent self-construal but lower on independent self-construal. Chinese students also scored lower on self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism. With respect to within-group relationships, socially prescribed perfectionism was a stronger predictor of trait anxiety for Caucasian students and a stronger predictor of social anxiety for Chinese students. Self-oriented perfectionism only predicted anxiety for Caucasian students but in a negative direction. Independent self-construal predicted anxiety better for Caucasian students than for Chinese students. For collective self-esteem, membership collective self-esteem was a stronger negative predictor of anxiety for Chinese. For the selected Chinese personality constructs, harmony only predicted social avoidance positively for Chinese students. Interestingly, face was a strong predictor of almost all the anxiety measures for Caucasian students, but it did not predict any of the anxiety measures for Chinese students. These results were discussed in terms of cultural variations that reflect the influences of general social-cultural factors on the self. A differential and dynamic perspective was recommended for future research on cross-cultural relevance of personality constructs. Implications regarding counseling were also discussed in terms of providing more culturally responsive treatments of anxiety problems among college students.

Author : Michael Roloff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135152799

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The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1999.