were used to determine whether Chinese college students from only child and sibling child families rated perceptions of their quality of life differently. Small to moderate significant differences were found when comparing only students to sibling students on the WHOQOL-100 with no significant differences on measures of anxiety and depression. These results suggest that only child students do not differ greatly from sibling students in terms of their overall perceptions of their quality of life. A unique characteristic of this study was that we targeted older college students born after implementation of the 1-child-per-
This study investigated factors considered as having an influence on the psychological adaptation of college students. Participants were 1,134 students from Wu Han University, in the Hui Bei province, of China, giving the study an impressive response rate of 99%. Results of the study indicate that factors such as "parental occupations", "parental education", "interest in major", "body image", "place raised in", and "gender" have a significant correlation with the psychological adaptation of college students in China. A significant relationship was found between fathers' education and occupation and college students' levels of anxiety and depression.
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