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Tomislava Vidic – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2024
Perceived life satisfaction during the period of childhood and adolescence can be considered a reliable measure of psychological and emotional growth of children and adolescents. The current study aimed to investigate age differences related to social support provided to students (by teachers, classmates, parents and close friends), and its…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Student Satisfaction, Social Support Groups
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Priadi, Arum; Nuha, Rafa Aly – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2019
This research is carried out 1) to find out whether there is a positive and significant correlation between family's support and students' English learning achievement and 2) to find out whether there is a difference between students who get the support and students who do not get the support from family. This research belongs to correlational…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Social Support Groups, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Liao, Mingyue; Ying, Ronghua; Zhou, Shike – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
Taking the elementary students of grade 5 in Jiangsu Province as the object, the research is carried out on the family and peer factors that affect the academic pressure of elementary students. The results show that parent-child relationships and peer relationships are critical protective factors for elementary students' academic pressure. The…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Stress Variables, Anxiety, Coping
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Centeio, Erin E.; Somers, Cheryl L.; Moore, E. Whitney G.; Garn, Alex; Kulik, Noel; Martin, Jeffrey; Shen, Bo; McCaughtry, Nate – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between measures of students' physical well-being and self-perception and their academic achievement. Specifically, we look at students' social support for physical activity, physical activity perceptions, self-concept, self-efficacy, health behaviors, and cardiorespiratory fitness (as measured…
Descriptors: Well Being, Physical Health, Self Concept, Academic Achievement
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Chan, Siu Mui; Oi Poon, Scarlet Fung – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study examined child cognitive-behavioural factors and parenting factors related to childhood depressive symptoms. Results indicate that positive and negative attributional styles were protective and vulnerable factors of depression symptoms, respectively, and the attribution-depression link was mediated by self-esteem and coping responses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Wilcox, Gabrielle; McQuay, Jocelyn; Blackstaffe, Anita; Perry, Rosemary; Hawe, Penelope – School Psychology Forum, 2016
Understanding what contributes to academic engagement is important to effectively support students. This study examines the relationship between sociodemographic factors, anxiety, social support, and academic engagement in elementary and junior high school students. Students in grades 5-9 (N = 1,904) completed self-reports measuring academic…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Instructional Program Divisions, Gender Differences, Family Income
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Vandevivere, Eva; Braet, Caroline; Bosmans, Guy – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
Maternal support is known as a protective factor during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However, less is known about the conditions leading to support-seeking behaviors toward mothers in early adolescence. In comparison with younger children, it is assumed that the specific nature of these conditions changes with continuing cognitive…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Mothers, Parent Role, Help Seeking
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La Greca, Annette M.; Lai, Betty S.; Llabre, Maria M.; Silverman, Wendy K.; Vernberg, Eric M.; Prinstein, Mitchell J. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2013
Background: There are no studies of the distinct trajectories of children's psychological distress over the first year after a destructive natural disaster and the determinants of these trajectories. Objective: We examined these issues using an existing dataset of children exposed to Hurricane Andrew, one of the most devastating natural…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Patterns, Natural Disasters
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Shell, Madelynn D.; Gazelle, Heidi; Faldowski, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Consistent with a Diathesis × Stress model, it was hypothesized that anxious solitude (individual vulnerability) and the middle school transition (environmental stress) would jointly predict peer exclusion and victimization trajectories. Youth (N = 688) were followed from 3rd through 7th grade, with the middle school transition in 6th grade.…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Anxiety, Stress Variables, Elementary School Students
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Altermatt, Ellen Rydell; Ivers, Ivy E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study examined social support processes in the context of positive events. The conversations of fourth-grade through sixth-grade focal children and their friends (N = 116) were observed after focal children outperformed their friend on an achievement-related task. Changes in focal children's performance-related positive affect from…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Friendship, Student Adjustment, Self Disclosure (Individuals)