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Smith, Valencia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study aimed to analyze the lack of emotional intelligence in school-age children and how it affected them socially and academically in the school setting. Students with low EI could not recognize their emotions and how to deal with them properly, which caused social skill delays and low academic performance. The participants in the study were…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Social Emotional Learning, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Kucukera, Sevgi; Cifci Tekinarslan, Ilknur – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study examines whether the self-concepts, social skills, problem behaviors, and loneliness levels of students with special educational needs (SEN) in inclusive elementary classrooms differ from those of students without special educational needs (non-SEN). This study also aimed to identify the roles of self-concept, social skills, and problem…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Psychological Patterns, Interpersonal Competence
MacEvoy, Julie Paquette; Asher, Steven R. – Child Development, 2012
In this study, the prevailing view that girls are pervasively more skilled in their friendships than boys was challenged by examining whether girls respond more negatively than boys when a friend violates core friendship expectations. Fourth- and fifth-grade children (n = 267) responded to vignettes depicting transgressions involving a friend's…
Descriptors: Friendship, Grade 5, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Kjellmer, Liselotte; Olswang, Lesley B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors examined how variability in classroom social communication performance differed between children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and pair-matched, typically developing peers. Method: Twelve pairs of children were observed in their classrooms, 40 min per day (20 min per child) for 4 days over a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Comparative Analysis
Chupp, Amy I.; Boes, Susan R. – Georgia School Counselors Association Journal, 2012
This action research study (ARS) describes the effectiveness of small group social skills lessons with elementary students, using "Too Good for Violence: A Curriculum for Non-violent Living" by the Mendez Foundation. The school counselor and school social worker taught the curriculum in a structured small group of 4th grade students in 8…
Descriptors: Action Research, Interpersonal Competence, Elementary School Students, Conflict Resolution
Raimundo, Raquel; Marques-Pinto, Alexandra; Lima, Maria Luisa – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
This quasi-experimental exploratory study investigated whether a social-emotional learning program, implemented during a 1-year period, could lead to gains in social-emotional competencies and a reduction in internalizing and externalizing problems. Furthermore, it showed which pupils would benefit most from the program. The program was applied to…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Elementary School Students, Student Characteristics
Caravita, Simona C. S.; Di Blasio, Paola; Salmivalli, Christina – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
The present study investigated the role of theory of mind (ToM) skills in three forms of involvement in bullying: ringleader bullying, defending the victim(s), and victimization. Individual (affective empathy) and interpersonal variables (social preference and perceived popularity) were assumed to moderate the associations between ToM and the ways…
Descriptors: Social Status, Bullying, Peer Acceptance, Empathy
Stoeckli, Georg – Journal of Educational Research, 2009
The author investigated the role of individual characteristics (self-esteem, social anxiety, and self-reported classroom participation) and peer reactions (peer-perceived shyness, peer nominations) in classroom loneliness in a sample of 704 preadolescent boys (360) and girls (344). It was hypothesized that classroom participation functions as a…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Structural Equation Models, Anxiety, Social Influences
Larson, Jim; Lochman, John E. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This guide presents information and clinical tools to implement the Anger Coping Program, an empirically supported intervention for students in grades 3-6. Practitioners are taken step by step through setting up treatment groups, teaching vital skills for reducing aggression and disruptive behavior, and building strong partnerships with teachers…
Descriptors: Intervention, Females, Scaling, Coping
Efrati-Virtzer, M.; Margalit, M. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2009
The objectives of the study were to examine the characteristics of non-referred children with behaviour difficulties (BD) (such as verbal and physical aggression towards children and objects), aged 9-12 years and attending mainstream schools, and to compare them with children with no BD. The second objective was to evaluate the contribution of a…
Descriptors: Social Status, Aggression, Females, Social Adjustment
Junttila, Niina; Vauras, Marja; Laakkonen, Eero – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2007
A latent variable structural model was constructed to test the relations among mothers' and fathers' parenting self-efficacy (PSE), their loneliness, and their child's peer-evaluated social competence, self-evaluated loneliness, teacher-evaluated motivational orientation, and academic skills. In order to do this, first the Self-Efficacy for…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Child Rearing, Psychological Patterns
Rice, Marti; Kang, Duck-Hee; Weaver, Michael; Howell, Carol C. – Journal of School Health, 2008
Background: High trait anger and stress, ineffective patterns of anger expression, and coping are risk factors for the development of disease and negative social behaviors in children and adults. School connectedness may be protective against negative consequences in adolescents, but less is known about this in school-aged children. The purposes…
Descriptors: Coping, Grade 4, White Students, Psychological Patterns
Farmer, Thomas W.; Estell, David B.; Hall, Cristin M.; Pearl, Ruth; Van Acker, Richard; Rodkin, Philip C. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2008
This study examines interpersonal competence configurations in relation to students' concurrent behavior problems and social risks for later adjustment difficulties. Participants are 648 (345 girls, 303 boys) fourth-grade students (65% White, 6.9% African American, 19.5% Hispanic, 4.6% Asian, and 4.0% Other) from the suburbs of a major Midwestern…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Behavior Problems, Females, Social Adjustment