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Spieker, Susan J.; Campbell, Susan B.; Vandergrift, Nathan; Pierce, Kim M.; Cauffman, Elizabeth; Susman, Elizabeth J.; Roisman, Glenn I. – Social Development, 2012
This study examined gender differences in the level and developmental course of relational aggression in middle childhood, as well as early predictors and outcomes of relational aggression, after controlling for concurrent physical aggression. Relational (RAgg) and Physical aggression (PAgg) scores for 558 boys and 545 girls at the ages of eight…
Descriptors: Aggression, Mothers, Children, Gender Differences
Ojanen, Tiina; Little, Todd D. – Social Development, 2010
This special section was inspired by the recent increased interest and methodological advances in the assessment of context-specificity in child and adolescent social development. While the effects of groups, situations, and social relationships on cognitive, affective and behavioral development have long been acknowledged in theoretical…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Social Development, Evaluation Methods
LaFontana, Kathryn M.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Social Development, 2010
This study examined the degree to which children and adolescents prioritize popularity in the peer group over other relational domains. Participants were 1013 children and adolescents from grade 1 through senior year of college (ages 6-22 years) who were presented with a series of social dilemmas in which attaining popularity was opposed to five…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Young Adults
Belsky, Jay – Social Development, 2009
Core findings of the ongoing National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study of early child care and youth development through the end of the primary-school years are summarized, highlighting the fact that both positive effects of good quality care on cognitive-linguistic-academic functioning and negative effects of extensive…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Social Development, Child Care, Child Development
Alink, Lenneke R. A.; Mesman, Judi; van Zeijl, Jantien; Stolk, Mirjam N.; Juffer, Femmie; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Koot, Hans M. – Social Development, 2009
Three models regarding the relation between maternal (in)sensitivity, negative discipline, and child aggression were examined in a sample of 117 mother-child pairs with high scores on child externalizing behavior: (1) Sensitivity and discipline are uniquely related to child aggression (the additive model); (2) the relation between discipline and…
Descriptors: Discipline, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Mothers
Braarud, Hanne Cecilie; Stormark, Kjell Morten – Social Development, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine 32 mothers' sensitivity to social contingency during face-to-face interaction with their two- to four-month-old infants in a closed circuit TV set-up. Prosodic qualities and vocal sounds in mother's infant-directed (ID) speech during sequences of live interaction were compared to sequences where expressive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Interaction, Parent Child Relationship
Daddis, Christopher – Social Development, 2008
Similarity in close friends' beliefs about personal jurisdiction was examined using questionnaires and interviews with 162 early (M[subscript age] = 11.82) and middle (M[subscript age] = 15.68) adolescents who were matched with reciprocally nominated close friends. Using the framework of social domain theory, beliefs about personal jurisdiction…
Descriptors: Friendship, Adolescents, Beliefs, Adolescent Attitudes
Miller, Jessie L.; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Boyle, Michael H. – Social Development, 2009
This study examined the heterotypic continuity of aggression hypothesis (physical to indirect) using independent teacher reports of aggression drawn from a nationally representative sample of 749 Canadian girls and boys. Confirmatory factor analysis using an accelerated longitudinal design confirmed a two-factor model of physical and indirect…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Factor Analysis, Males
Nelson, Larry J.; Hart, Craig H.; Evans, Cortney A. – Social Development, 2008
Although the construct of solitary-active behavior calls for the aggregation of solitary-functional play and solitary-pretend play, there is little empirical support for combining them into one construct. Furthermore, little work has been done in early childhood to examine these behaviors on the playground. The purpose of this study was to observe…
Descriptors: Play, Playgrounds, Social Adjustment, Peer Acceptance
Nesdale, Drew; Durkin, Kevin; Maass, Anne; Kiesner, Jeff; Griffiths, Judith A. – Social Development, 2008
A minimal group study examined the effect of peer group norms on children's direct and indirect bullying intentions. Prior to an inter-group drawing competition, children (N = 85) aged seven and nine years were assigned to a group that had a norm of out-group dislike or out-group liking. Results indicated that, regardless of group norms, the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Bullying, Peer Groups, Intention
Baker-Sennett, Jacquelyn; Matusov, Eugene; Rogoff, Barbara – Social Development, 2008
This study examined the planning that occurred when children participated in classroom playcrafting with either adult or child leadership. In a first-/second-grade classroom in an innovative public school, we videotaped 11 sessions in which children volunteered to develop a play with small groups of classmates and seven sessions in which adult…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Skill Development, Social Development, Parent Participation
Recchia, Holly E.; Howe, Nina – Social Development, 2008
This study investigated associations between preschoolers' conversations about internal states and their spontaneous appraisals of self and sibling. Thirty-two preschoolers (M age = 3.9 years) were observed during naturalistic home interactions with mothers and younger siblings. Various features of mothers' and children's internal state language…
Descriptors: Siblings, Mothers, Preschool Children, Sibling Relationship
LaBounty, Jennifer; Wellman, Henry M.; Olson, Sheryl; Lagattuta, Kristin; Liu, David – Social Development, 2008
The present study extends previous results demonstrating a relation between maternal discourse and child social understanding to include paternal discourse. Emotion understanding (EU) and theory of mind (ToM) were considered as two distinctive aspects of social understanding. Participants were 106 children (54 boys and 52 girls) studied at 3.5 and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Social Cognition, Fathers, Social Development
Soenens, Bart; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Goossens, Luc; Duriez, Bart; Niemiec, Christopher P. – Social Development, 2008
This study investigated the associations among psychologically controlling parenting, relational aggression, friendship quality, and loneliness during adolescence. A model was proposed in which relational aggression plays an intervening role in the relations between both parental psychological control and friendship outcomes. In a sample comprised…
Descriptors: Aggression, Friendship, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
Moorman, Elizabeth A.; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Social Development, 2008
This research examined the role of mothers' cognitions about children's self-control in their responses to children's helplessness. Mothers and their four-year-old children (N = 109) were asked to work on a difficult task in the laboratory. Mothers' hostility and warmth as well as children's helpless (vs. mastery) behavior were coded every minute.…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Mothers, Research Methodology, Psychological Patterns
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