Urban and Rural Chinese Adolescents' Judgments and Reasoning About Personal and Group Jurisdiction

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 701-716

  Helwig, Charles C ^a   Yang, Shaogang ^b   Tan, Dingliang ^c   Liu, Chunqiong ^c   Shao, Tiffany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL VALUES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79953009155     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01531.x     Document Type: Article

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