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Camilla Forsberg; Björn Sjögren; Robert Thornberg; Jun Sung Hong; Claudio Longobardi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers have a major impact on students' social cognition and behaviors, and previous research has found that students who have positive relationships with their teachers tend to be less bullied by their peers. However, this line of research is limited in that it has been (a) Dominated by cross-sectional studies and (b) Treated bullying…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Bullying, Victims, Verbal Communication
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Faye Mishna; Arija Birze; Andrea Greenblatt; Mona Khoury-Kassabri – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2021
There is a lack of research that examines and compares the perspectives of students and their parents and teachers with respect to cyberbullying. Qualitative data were drawn from a mixed methods study on cyberbullying among students in grades 4, 7, and 10, in a large urban school board. Interviews with 13 students and their parents and teachers…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Grade 4, Grade 7
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Yazdani, Neshat; Siedlecki, Karen L.; Cao, Zihuan; Cham, Heining – Elementary School Journal, 2020
Extensive literature highlights positive outcomes experienced by students whose parents and teachers have strong relationships, but less is known about the factors that influence parent-teacher relationship strength. Using data from "The Impact of Grade Retention: A Developmental Approach," we identify parent-level predictors of the…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Predictor Variables, Interpersonal Relationship, Elementary Schools
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Leaver, Cynthia A. – Journal of School Health, 2014
Background: Children with vague complaints are without chronic illness, and who repeatedly visit the school nurse may be at risk for limited academic success. This study compares student reports of subjective well-being between children who do and do not repeatedly visit the school nurse with vague complaints. Methods: Children in grades 4 through…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Well Being, School Nurses, At Risk Students
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Lo, Ya-yu; Correa, Vivian I.; Anderson, Adrienne L. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2015
Cross-cultural friendships and peer interactions are important skills for Latino students to become socially adjusted in U.S. schools. Culturally responsive social skill instruction allows educators to teach essential social skills while attending to the native culture and personal experiences of the students. The present study examined the…
Descriptors: Males, Hispanic American Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Interpersonal Competence
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Kiuru, Noona; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka; Poskiparta, Elisa; Ahonen, Timo; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
This study examined the role of reading disability (RD) risk and environmental protective factors in reading fluency in grade 4. The sample consisted of 538 Finnish-speaking students. Kindergarten measures included the students' risk for RD based on poor achievement in phonological awareness and letter knowledge as well as information on the three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, At Risk Students
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Berg, Juliette K.; Aber, J. Lawrence – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Increasing attention is being given to the role of a positive school interpersonal climate in children's school functioning and social-emotional development. Children's perceptions are commonly used to measure the interpersonal school climate, but the individual and contextual characteristics that contribute to variation in children's perceptions…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Educational Environment, Interpersonal Relationship, Child Development
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Pernice-Duca, Francesca; Taiariol, Jennifer; Yoon, Jina – Journal of School Violence, 2010
The role of family and school-level variables on relational aggression and relational victimization was investigated among 158 fourth- and fifth-grade children. Family cohesion, maternal and paternal responsiveness, and school climate were hypothesized to be significant predictors of relational aggression and relational victimization. The results…
Descriptors: Bullying, Family Environment, Victims of Crime, Interpersonal Relationship
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Rudolph, Karen D.; Flynn, Megan; Abaied, Jamie L.; Groot, Alison; Thompson, Renee – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study examined whether a transactional interpersonal life stress model helps to explain the continuity in depression over time in girls. Youth (86 girls, 81 boys; M age = 12.41, SD = 1.19) and their caregivers participated in a three-wave longitudinal study. Depression and episodic life stress were assessed with semistructured interviews.…
Descriptors: Females, Caregivers, Path Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
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Gest, Scott D.; Welsh, Janet A.; Domitrovich, Celene E. – Journal of School Psychology, 2005
Normative trends and behavioral predictors for three dimensions of social relatedness were examined in a 6-month longitudinal study of 383 students in Grades 3, 4 and 5. Student reports of social relatedness (teacher supportiveness, school supportiveness, loneliness) and liking school indicated that students in each of the grades felt less…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Aggression, Educational Environment, Student Behavior
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Kistner, Janet A.; David-Ferdon, Corinne F.; Repper, Karla K.; Joiner, Thomas E., Jr. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
Are depressive symptoms in middle childhood associated with more or less realistic social self-perceptions? At the beginning and end of the school year, children in grades 3 through 5 (n = 667) rated how much they liked their classmates, predicted the acceptance ratings they would receive from each of their classmates, and completed self-report…
Descriptors: Bias, Childhood Attitudes, Beliefs, Peer Acceptance
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Fleming, Charles B.; Haggerty, Kevin P.; Catalano, Richard F.; Harachi, Tracy W.; Mazza, James J.; Gruman, Diana H. – Journal of School Health, 2005
This study assessed whether characteristics of individuals that are predictors of youth problem behavior such as substance use, delinquency, and violence also predict academic achievement. Longitudinal data from 576 students participating in the Raising Healthy Children (RHC) project were analyzed. The RHC project is a study of students recruited…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 7, Standardized Tests, Social Development
Herrera, Carla – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
With traditional mentoring programs working hard to attract new kinds of volunteers and schools facing increased pressure to help students succeed, school-based mentoring is a promising--and increasingly popular--approach. According to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the number of school-based matches grew from 27,000 in 1999 to 90,000 in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Surveys, Evaluation Methods, Predictor Variables