Self-perceptions of social competence and self-worth in Chinese children: Relations with social and school performance

Social Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 570-589

  Chen, Xinyin ^a   He, Yunfeng ^b   Li, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese children; Self perception; Social competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044237380     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2004.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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