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Correspondence to Author: Huechen Ding, Ban Ding.. 

University of California, Irvine, Health, Orange, CA

Abstract:

The writers in this Special Issue concentrate on a wide range of social behaviors, such as problem conduct, prosocial behavior, parent-child contact, and social disengagement. The implications of social withdrawal were found in three investigations. In general, the majority of withdrawn subtypes are found to be risk factors for the growth of children’s psychological health. Bowker et al. looked at the relationships between anxiety withdrawal and sleep issues and discovered that social disengagement was a long-term predictor of eventual sleep issues, particularly for teenagers who were marginalized and victimized. Shy, unsociable, and nonwithdrawn groups were created by Sette et al. (contribution 2) using a person-oriented approach. They discovered that the unsociable group seemed to be the most well-adjusted group, while the shy and avoidant group reported greater levels of internalizing difficulties. Prosocial conduct, another prevalent social characteristic in childhood and adolescence, is the subject of wostudies. Peer preference and self-perceived social competence were discovered to be a serial indirect pathway among the correlations between prosocial behavior and psychological maladjustment by Li et al. (contribution 4). According to Liu et al. (contribution 5), the mediation model was regulated by subjective socioeconomic position, and psychological suzhi mediated the effects of early emotional experiences on prosocial conduct.The pertinent variables for the emergence of problematic behavior were investigated in two investigations. The developmental trajectory of violent conduct and the predictors of its intercept and slope from parent and child self (i.e., self-esteem, psychological aggression, and corporal punishment) were studied by Yang et al. (contribution 9). Using a longitudinal design, Mo et al. (contribution 10) investigated the relationships between family SES and subsequent problem behavior, using maternal warmth as a moderator and sense of coherence as a mediator. The articles in this Special Issue also highlight several methodological issues, particularly with relation to research design, sample selection, and analytical approach. One notable aspect is the wide age range of participants, which includes those from North America (contribution 1, contribution 6, contribution 11), Europe (contribution 2), and China (contribution 3, contribution 4, 5, contribution 7, contribution 8, contribution 9, contribution 10, contribution 12). Participants range in age from early childhood (contribution 3, contribution 6, contribution 7), middle childhood (contribution 8, contribution 10, contribution 11), adolescence (contribution 1, contribution 4, contribution 5, contribution 9, contribution 12), and emerging adulthood (contribution 2). The results in this Special Issue can be applied to a wider range of contexts because it covers a wide range of developmental stages and cultural backgrounds. The use of statistical methods and advanced techniques is the third highlight.

Citation:

Dr. Huechen Ding, Social Behaviors In Children: Developmental Processes And Consequences. Advances in Behavioral Neuroscience 2025.