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Classroom Goal Structures, Social Achievement Goals, and Adjustment in Middle School
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Shim, Sungok Serena; Cho, YoonJung; Wang, Cen – Learning and Instruction, 2013
The current study investigated the mediating role of social achievement goals in the relation between classroom goal structures and academic engagement and social adjustment among 373 middle school students (52.8% female). Students' perceptions of classroom goal structures were measured in Fall; social achievement goals and academic and social…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Social Development, Achievement, Goal Orientation
Testing Causal Impacts of a School-Based SEL Intervention Using Instrumental Variable Techniques
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Torrente, Catalina; Nathanson, Lori; Rivers, Susan; Brackett, Marc – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Children's social-emotional skills, such as conflict resolution and emotion regulation, have been linked to a number of highly regarded academic and social outcomes. The current study presents preliminary results from a causal test of the theory of change of RULER, a universal school-based approach to social and emotional learning (SEL).…
Descriptors: Children, Social Development, Emotional Development, Elementary School Students
Viewing Generativity and Social Capital as Underlying Factors of Parent Involvement
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Stevens, Sharon; Patel, Nimisha – School Community Journal, 2015
Parent involvement in education is a multifaceted support that has many well-documented benefits for students of all ages. Parent involvement is also a common expression of generativity as defined in Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development. The activities parents engage in during their children's educational pursuits, as well as their…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Social Capital, Student Development, Social Development
Problem Behavior in the Middle School Years: An Assessment of the Social Development Model
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Sullivan, Christopher J.; Hirschfield, Paul – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2011
The Social Development Model (SDM) is a life course theory that integrates several extant criminological theories to specify the interactive social processes that lead to prosocial and antisocial behavior. Relatively little research has attempted to cross-validate this and other developmental theories of delinquency. The current study assesses the…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Student Surveys, Social Development
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Early Adolescents' Friendship Development: Friendship Selection, Influence, and Prospective Friendship Quality
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Ojanen, Tiina; Sijtsema, Jelle J.; Hawley, Patricia H.; Little, Todd D. – Journal of Adolescence, 2010
Friendships are essential for adolescent social development. However, they may be pursued for varying motives, which, in turn, may predict similarity in friendships via social selection or social influence processes, and likely help to explain friendship quality. We examined the effect of early adolescents' (N = 374, 12-14 years) intrinsic and…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Incentives, Motivation, Friendship
On the Relationship between Bonding Theory and Youth Gang Resistance in U.S. 8th Graders: Competing Structural Equation Models with Latent Structure Indirect Effects
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Vander Horst, Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In a study of 5285 8th graders from the Gang Resistance and Education Training (G.R.E.A.T.) research, this study applied Travis Hirschi's social bonding theory to examine the curriculum's efficacy in increasing conventional bonding (friends with positive peers, succeeding at education etc.) and decreasing non-conventional bonding (drug…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Resistance (Psychology), Juvenile Gangs, Program Effectiveness
On Social Achievement Goals: Their Relations with Peer Acceptance, Classroom Belongingness, and Perceptions of Loneliness
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Mouratidis, Athanasios A.; Sideridis, Georgios D. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2009
The authors investigated the relation between social achievement goals (A. M. Ryan & S. S. Shim, 2006) and aspects of students' socio-emotional adjustment in a sample of elementary school students. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that after controlling for levels of prosocial skills, a social development goal was positively related…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Structural Equation Models, Student Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment