Birth cohort changes of Chinese adolescents' anxiety: A cross-temporal meta-analysis, 1992-2005

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 208-212

  Xin, Ziqiang ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Liu, Dong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Birth cohort; Chinese adolescents; Cross temporal meta analysis; Social change

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955436604     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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