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Peer Groups as a Context for School Misconduct: The Moderating Role of Group Interactional Style
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Ellis, Wendy; Zarbatany, Lynne; Chen, Xinyin; Kinal, Megan; Boyko, Lisa – Child Development, 2018
Peer group interactional style was examined as a moderator of the relation between peer group school misconduct and group members' school misconduct. Participants were 705 students (M[subscript age] = 11.59 years, SD = 1.37) in 148 peer groups. Children reported on their school misconduct in fall and spring. In the winter, group members were…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Task Analysis, Group Membership, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Early Attachment Organization with Both Parents and Future Behavior Problems: From Infancy to Middle Childhood
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Kim, Sanghag – Child Development, 2013
Links between children's attachment security with mothers and fathers, assessed in Strange Situation with each parent at 15 months ("N" = 101), and their future behavior problems were examined. Mothers and fathers rated children's behavior problems, and children reported their own behavior problems at age 8 ("N" = 86). Teachers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Young Children, Children
Longitudinal Effects of Student Mobility on Three Dimensions of Elementary School Engagement
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Gruman, Diana H.; Harachi, Tracy W.; Abbott, Robert D.; Catalano, Richard F.; Fleming, Charles B. – Child Development, 2008
Working within the developmental science research framework, this study sought to capture a dynamic and complex view of student mobility. Second- through fifth-grade data (N = 1,003, predominantly Caucasian) were drawn from a longitudinal study, and growth curve analyses allowed for the examination of mobility effects within the context of other…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Academic Achievement, Grade 5, Student Mobility
Adolescents' Conceptions of Teachers' Authority and Their Relations to Rule Violations in School.
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Smetana, Judith G.; Bitz, Bruce – Child Development, 1996
Assessed conceptions of teachers' authority as it pertains to misconduct. Subjects were 10- through 17-year olds. Found that adolescents viewed moral, conventional, and prudential issues as legitimately subject to teachers' authority, and personal issues as under personal jurisdiction; they were equivocal about contextually conventional issues.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Emotional Autonomy Redux: Revisiting Ryan and Lynch.
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Lamborn, Susie D.; Steinberg, Laurence – Child Development, 1993
Compared adjustment scores among adolescents who differ in both emotional autonomy and perceptions of parental support. Found that, although adolescents who scored high in both emotional autonomy and relationship support reported more internal distress and behavior problems than less autonomous adolescents, they had higher levels of psychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Emotional Adjustment
Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Perceptions of the Self and Schoolmates: Precursors to Internalizing and Externalizing Problems
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Troop-Gordon, Wendy; Ladd, Gary W. – Child Development, 2005
Evidence indicates that peer victimization is predictive of later maladjustment, but the mechanisms by which harassment impairs development have yet to be identified. The objectives of this study were (a) to discern normative trends in peer victimization experiences and self- and peer perceptions during preadolescence and (b) to investigate…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Victims of Crime, Preadolescents, Peer Relationship