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Bukowski, William M.; Dirks, Melanie; Persram, Ryan; Santo, Jonathan; DeLay, Dawn; Lopez, Luz Stella – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Data from 790 older school-age (M[subscript age] = 10.2 years, SD = 1.2 years) girls (N = 427) and boys from Barranquilla, Colombia (N = 449) and MontrĂ©al, Canada (N = 331) were used to replicate findings reported by Valdivia et al. (2005). This prior study revealed contextual variations in the association between two measures of social behavior,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Aggression, Withdrawal (Psychology)
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Tu, Kelly M.; Erath, Stephen A.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Vandenberg, Carlynn – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Prospective associations linking parental responses to peer victimization (i.e., coping suggestions, school contact) with adolescents' coping and experiences of peer victimization were examined. Participants were 203 adolescents (X-bar[subscript] age = 12.16 years, SD = 0.98) and a parent (81% mothers). At Time 1, parents provided open-ended…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Victims, Bullying, Coping
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Gfellner, Barbara M.; Armstrong, Helen D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
This study supported associations between three theoretically driven conceptualizations of racial and ethnic identity (REI; Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure; Multidimensional Racial Identity Measure; Bicultural Identity Measure) and with adaptive functioning among Canadian indigenous adolescents in middle school to high school. Age differences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Biculturalism
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Werner, Nicole E. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
Relatively little is understood about the role of hostile attributions in children's use of relational aggression with peers, or about the impact of family processes on children's attributions about ambiguous provocations. This cross-sectional study investigated associations among hostile attributions made by children, mothers, and fathers, and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Grade 3, Mothers, Fathers
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Reynolds, Matthew R.; Sander, Janay B.; Irvin, Matthew J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
The trajectories of internalizing and interpersonal behaviors from kindergarten through fifth grade were studied using univariate and bivariate latent curve models. Internalizing behaviors demonstrated a small, yet statistically significant, linear increase over time, while interpersonal behaviors showed a small, yet statistically significant,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Antisocial Behavior, Elementary School Students, Age Differences
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Antia, Shirin D.; Jones, Patricia; Luckner, John; Kreimeyer, Kathryn H.; Reed, Susanne – Exceptional Children, 2011
Students with hearing loss attending general education classrooms have been reported to experience difficulties in social skills and relationships. This 5-year longitudinal study examined the social skills and problem behaviors of students who were deaf or hard of hearing, and who attended general education classrooms. Data were obtained from…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Extracurricular Activities, Classroom Communication, Rating Scales
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Kuhn, Emily S.; Laird, Robert D. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Adolescents differ in the extent to which they believe that parents have legitimate authority to impose rules restricting adolescents' behavior. The purpose of the current study was to test predictors of individual differences in legitimacy beliefs during the middle school years. Annually, during the summers following Grades 5, 6, and 7, early…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Early Adolescents, Decision Making, Parent Child Relationship
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Sentse, Miranda; Laird, Robert D. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
This study focused on support and conflict in parent-child relationships and dyadic friendships as predictors of behavior problems in early adolescence (n = 182; M age = 12.9 years, 51% female, 45% African American, 74% two-parent homes). Support and conflict in one relationship context were hypothesized to moderate the effects of experiences in…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior, Conflict, Early Adolescents
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Bauman, Sheri – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
Students (N = 221) in an intermediate school (grades 5-8) in a rural area of the Southwestern United States completed a survey regarding their familiarity with technology and their experiences with cyberbullying during the school year. Initial evidence of survey reliability is presented. In the sample, 1.5% of participants were classified as…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Familiarity, Rural Areas, Computer Mediated Communication
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Langdon, Susan W.; Preble, William – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
There are several avenues of inquiry that seek to understand and ameliorate the problem of bullying in schools, including the strategy of fostering respect. To date, however, there is little empirical literature testing the presumed relationship between respect and bullying. This study examined this relationship with surveys (N = 3,147) and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior
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Ellis, Wendy E.; Zarbatany, Lynne – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study examined variation in friendship formation and friendship stability as a function of children's and their friends' victimization, overt aggression, and relational aggression. Participants were 605 pre- and early adolescents in fifth through eighth grades (M age = 12.05) assessed twice over a three-month period. Scores for stability and…
Descriptors: Friendship, Victims of Crime, Peer Relationship, Aggression
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de Castro, Bram Orobio; Brendgen, Mara; Van Boxtel, Herman; Vitaro, Frank; Schaepers, Linda – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
It has been proposed that aggressive behavior may result from unrealistically positive self-evaluations that are disputed by others (Baumeister, Smart, & Boden, 1996). The present three studies tested this proposition concurrently and longitudinally for the domain of self-perceived social competence (SPSC) in 3-6th grade children on two…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Behavior Patterns, Rejection (Psychology), Aggression
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Meisinger, E. B.; Blake, J. J.; Lease, A. M.; Palardy, G. J.; Olejnik, S. F. – Journal of School Psychology, 2007
Behavioral descriptors were identified as variant or invariant predictors of perceived popularity in a sample of 516 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children located in 26 majority-Black or majority-White classrooms. Athletic ability, prosocial behavior, being "cool", social withdrawal, and "personal privilege" (i.e., having a lot of expensive…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Peer Acceptance, African American Students, White Students
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Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky – Social Development, 2004
Mediator models were examined in which children's emotional reactions to peer aggression were hypothesized to mediate their selection of coping strategies and subsequent peer victimization and internalizing problems. Self-report data were collected from 145 ethnically diverse kindergarten through fifth grade children (66 females and 79 males) who…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Coping, Conflict Resolution, Grade 5