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Beyond Situational Ambiguity in Peer Conflict: Unique and Combined Effects of Cues from an Antagonist and a Best Friend
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Smith-Schrandt, Heather L.; Ojanen, Tiina; Gesten, Ellis; Feldman, Marissa A.; Calhoun, Casey D. – Child Development, 2011
In accord with increasing recognition of the situation specificity of childhood social behaviors, individual and contextual differences in children's responses to potential peer conflict were examined (hostile attribution, behavioral strategies, and affective reactions; N = 367, 9-2 years, 197 girls). Situational cues from 2 sources, the…
Descriptors: Cues, Self Efficacy, Conflict, Friendship
The Role of Overt Aggression, Relational Aggression, and Prosocial Behavior in the Prediction of Children's Future Social Adjustment.
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Crick, Nicki R. – Child Development, 1996
Examined 245 third- through sixth-graders' relational aggression, overt aggression, prosocial behavior, and social adjustment at three points during the academic year. Found that individual differences in relational aggression were relatively stable over time, and that relational aggression and prosocial behavior contributed to the prediction of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Individual Differences, Interpersonal Competence
The Relations of Regulation and Negative Emotionality to Indonesian Children's Social Functioning.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; Pidada, Sri; Liew, Jeffrey – Child Development, 2001
Examined relations of individual differences in regulation and negative emotionality to Indonesian third-graders' social skills/low externalizing problem behavior, sociometric status, and shyness. Found that children's low socially appropriate behavior/high problem behavior and rejected peer status were related to low dispositional regulation and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Children, Emotional Experience, Foreign Countries
Continuity in Parent-Child Relationships from Infancy to Middle Childhood and Relations with Friendship Competence.
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Freitag, Milam K.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined continuity in parent-child relationships in a sample of German families. Traced connections between individual differences in a composite of markers of the parent-child attachment relationship system and later parent-child communications. Found that the composite modestly predicted variability in children's competence in forming…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Context, Emotional Development
The Relations of Regulation and Emotionality to Resiliency and Competent Social Functioning in Elementary School Children.
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined relations of children's regulation and emotionality to their social functioning. Found that resiliency mediated effects of individual differences in attentional regulation on social status and socially appropriate behavior, and that negative emotionality moderated the positive relation between attentional control and resiliency. Also…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention Control, Children, Emotional Development
An Integrated Model of Emotion Processes and Cognition in Social Information Processing.
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Lemerise, Elizabeth A.; Arsenio, William F. – Child Development, 2000
Interprets literature on contributions of social cognitive and emotion processes to children's social competence in the context of an integrated model of emotion processes and cognition in social information processing. Provides neurophysiological and functional evidence for the centrality of emotion processes in personal-social decision making.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Cues, Decision Making
Profiles of Social Competence among Low-Income African American Preschool Children.
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Mendez, Julia L.; Fantuzzo, John; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2002
Investigated relations between children's attributes and peer play competence among African American preschoolers attending Head Start. Identified six distinctive profiles of personal attributes linked to adaptation in social functioning. Children with highly adaptable temperaments, strong ability to approach new situations, and above average…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Individual Differences, Interpersonal Competence, Low Income Groups
Gender, Adult Structuring of Activities, and Social Behavior in Middle Childhood.
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Huston, Aletha C.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines whether there are sex differences during middle childhood in children's choices to participate in activities differing in level of adult-provided structure; effects of structure on children's compliance, leadership, and recognition seeking directed to adults and to peers; and relation of sex-typed social skills or dispositions and…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Behavior Development, Child Development
Developmental Theories for the 1990s: Development and Individual Differences.
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Scarr, Sandra – Child Development, 1992
Argues that an evolutionary perspective can unite the study of species-typical development and individual variation. Provides examples from the domains of personality, social, and intellectual development. Maintains that understanding the ways in which genes and environments work together helps developmentalists identify children who need…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing