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Article Spotlight: Dr. Robert Coplan, Alicia McVarnock & Laura Ooi

March 26, 2025

Time to read: 1 minutes

An article titled, ‘‘ was recently published by Xuechen Ding, Alicia McVarnock, Mingxin Li, Robert J. Coplan, 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 .