{"id":42291,"date":"2025-03-26T09:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/?p=42291"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:33:27","slug":"article-spotlight-dr-robert-coplan-alicia-mcvarnock-laura-ooi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/2025\/article-spotlight-dr-robert-coplan-alicia-mcvarnock-laura-ooi\/","title":{"rendered":"Article Spotlight: Dr. Robert Coplan, Alicia McVarnock &#038; Laura Ooi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article titled, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0193397325000346\">Motivations for social withdrawal and socio-emotional functioning among urban\/suburban Chinese children<\/a><span class=\"title-text\">&#8216; was recently published by<span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> Xuechen Ding, Alicia McVarnock, Mingxin Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/robert-coplan\/\">Robert J. Coplan<\/a>, Laura L. Ooi, Jie Yu, and Biao Sang. This article highlights a study aimed at comparing the relations between different motivations for social withdrawal (i.e., shyness, unsociability, social avoidance) and indices of socio-emotional functioning among urban and suburban Chinese children. Participants included 770 children from urban areas and 815 children from suburban areas in mainland China. Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0193397325000346\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article titled, &#8216;Motivations for social withdrawal and socio-emotional functioning among urban\/suburban Chinese children&#8216; was recently published by Xuechen Ding, Alicia McVarnock, Mingxin Li, Robert J. Coplan, Laura L. Ooi, Jie Yu, and Biao Sang. 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