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Situational Characteristics and Emotional Forgiveness: A Two-Wave Study with Socially Maladjusted Youths in Poland
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Sebastian Binyamin Skalski-Bednarz; Loren L. Toussaint; Karol Konaszewski – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Forgiveness is a coping strategy that facilitates psychological well-being and reduces stress, leading to growing interest in identifying its key predictors. This study examined how situational characteristics, as defined by the DIAMONDS model, influenced emotional forgiveness among socially maladjusted youths in Poland. Utilizing a two-wave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Altruism, Interpersonal Relationship, Conflict Resolution
Classroom Contexts as the Framework for Assessing Social-Emotional Adjustment: A National Study in Trinidad and Tobago
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Mcdermott, Paul A.; Watkins, Marley W.; Drogalis, Anna Rhoad; Chao, Jessica L.; Worrell, Frank C.; Hall, Tracey E. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
Contextually based assessments reveal the circumstances accompanying maladjustment (the when, where, and with whom) and supply clues to the motivations underpinning problem behaviors. The Adjustment Scales for Children and Adolescents (ASCA) is a teacher rating scale composed of indicators describing behavior in 24 classroom situational contexts.…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment, Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Style
Concurrent Validity of the School Problem Screening Inventory for Behavior-Disordered Students.
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Nodrick, William S.; Li, Anita K. F. – Psychology in the Schools, 1992
Investigated relationship between School Problem Screening Inventory, Fifth Edition (SPSI) and Bristol Social Adjustment Guides (BSAG) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Findings from 43 junior high school students with behavior problems showed SPSI Behavior Disorder undercontrolled and overcontrolled scores to be moderately…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Concurrent Validity, Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students
Friendship Networks and Social, School and Psychological Adjustment in Chinese Junior High School Students.
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Liu, Mowei; Chen, Xinyin – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
Examines friendship networks and their associations with social, academic and psychological adjustment in Chinese high school students. It was found that friendship group members had higher scores on social and school competence and lower scores on learning problems and loneliness, suggesting that friendship networks might represent a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Friendship, Junior High School Students
Syndromes of Social Maladaptation among Elementary School Boys and Girls.
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McDermott, Paul A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Assessed the cross-sex similarity of behavioral disturbance dimensions as measured by the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides (BSAG) using a sample of 2,527 Ontario schoolchildren. Results confirmed the cross-sex equivalence in the factor structure and support the use of the BSAG's under- and overreaction scales as indicators of maladjustment. (JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Childhood Peer Status as Predictor of Midadolescence Peer Situation and Social Adjustment
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Zettergren, Peter – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
This longitudinal study examined the relation between stable sociometric status among same-gender classmates at age 10-11 and peer situation and social adjustment at age 15. Rejected, popular, and average groups of both genders (N = 90) were selected from a representative school sample. Rejected boys and girls preserved their low position among…
Descriptors: Females, Social Adjustment, Sociometric Techniques, Peer Acceptance
The Effect of School Entrance Age on Academic Achievement and Social-Emotional Adjustment of Children: Follow-up Study of Fourth Graders.
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Breznitz, Zvia; Teltsch, Tamar – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
Examined school entrance age effect on academic achievement and social-emotional adjustment among 137 fourth graders. Found that differences between 73 oldest and 64 youngest subjects, identified in first grade, persisted in part to fourth grade. Younger subjects scored lowest in mathematics and oral and silent reading comprehension; were slower…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Emotional Adjustment