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Kwon, Kyongboon; Lease, A. Michele; Hoffman, Lesa – Social Development, 2012
The impact of children's clique membership on their peer nominations for social behaviors and status was examined in a sample of 455 third- through fifth-grade children. Social identity theory (SIT) and children's peer group affiliation and context served as primary conceptual frameworks for this investigation. As suggested by SIT, results…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Peer Relationship, Peer Groups, Grade 5
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Persson, Gun E. B. – Social Development, 2005
Children's target experiences (as recipients of prosocial peer acts and victims of peer aggression) were investigated for their concurrent and longitudinal associations with prosocial and aggressive behavior. Forty-four children (initially 22-40 months) were observed in naturalistic interactions with peers during a two-month period for each of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Peer Relationship, Longitudinal Studies
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Strayer, Janet; Roberts, William – Social Development, 2004
In Roberts and Strayer (1996) we described how emotional factors were strongly related to children's empathy, which in turn strongly predicted prosocial behavior. This paper focuses on how these child emotional factors, assessed across methods and sources, related to parental factors (empathy, emotional expressiveness, encouragement of children's…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Emotional Response, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing