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Victimization by Bullying and Attachment to Parents and Teachers among Students Who Report Learning Disorders and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Klomek, A. Brunstein; Kopelman-Rubin, D.; Al-Yagon, M.; Berkowitz, Ruth; Apter, A.; Mikulincer, M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
This is the first study examining the association between victimization by bullying and attachment to both parents and teachers among students who report Learning Disorders (LD) and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A total of 1,691 seventh- and eighth-grade students in six junior high schools completed questionnaires about…
Descriptors: Bullying, Learning Disabilities, Attachment Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship
Fathers' Coping Resources and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment among Children with Learning Disabilities
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
This study examined a cumulative model of vulnerability and protective factors at the individual level (children's attachment relationships with father and children's sense of coherence) and at the family level as manifested by fathers' coping resources (fathers' sense of coherence, fathers' active and avoidant coping strategies) in helping to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attachment Behavior, Coping, Path Analysis
Comorbid LD and ADHD in Childhood: Socioemotional and Behavioural Adjustment and Parents' Positive and Negative Affect
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Al-Yagon, Michal – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2009
The present study examined how vulnerability and protective factors at the individual level (child's disabilities; patterns of attachment), and at the family level (fathers'/mothers' affect), help explain differences in socioemotional and behavioural adjustment among children aged 8-12 years with comorbid learning disability (LD) and attention…
Descriptors: Mothers, Learning Disabilities, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders
Socioemotional and Academic Adjustment Among Children with Learning Disorders: The Mediational Role of Attachment-Based Factors
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Al-Yagon, Michal; Mikulincer, Mario – Journal of Special Education, 2004
This study examined the role of attachment-based factors (children's attachment style, children's appraisal of teacher as a secure base, and teacher's feelings of closeness to child) in explaining differences in Israeli children's socioemotional adjustment (self-rated sense of coherence, loneliness) and academic functioning (teacher-rated). The…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Learning Disabilities
Patterns of Close Relationships and Socioemotional and Academic Adjustment among School-Age Children with Learning Disabilities
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Al-Yagon, Michal; Mikulincer, Mario – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
This study examined patterns of close relationships among school-age children with learning disabilities (LD) as manifested in their attachment style, their self-perceived loneliness, their sense of coherence, and teacher ratings of their academic functioning. In line with resilience theory, this study also aimed to further explore predictors of…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Attachment Behavior, Learning Disabilities, Elementary School Students
Early Intervention and Prevention of Challenging Behaviour in Children with Learning Disabilities
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von Tetzchner, Stephen – Perspectives in Education, 2004
Challenging behaviour in children with learning disabilities seems to emerge as the result of an interaction between biological vulnerability and environmental risk, and studies indicate that the development of this behaviour to some extent may be prevented through adaptations of the social environment. Early intervention should have a pivotal…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Social Environment, Prevention, Social Cognition