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Frijns, Tom; Finkenauer, Catrin – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Increasing bodies of evidence suggest that keeping secrets may be detrimental to well-being and adjustment, whereas confiding secrets may alleviate the detriments of secrecy and benefit well-being and adjustment. However, few studies have addressed the consequences of keeping and confiding secrets simultaneously, and even fewer have done so…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Social Adjustment, Well Being
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Vitaro, Frank; Brendgen, Mara; Barker, Edward D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
Aggressive behaviors in children and adolescents have undergone important conceptual and definitional modifications in the past two decades. In particular, subtypes of aggression have been proposed that separate the form and the function of the aggressive behaviors (i.e., social vs. physical aggression; reactive vs. proactive aggression).…
Descriptors: Aggression, Infants, Children, Adolescents
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Ding, Cody S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
Many statistical models have been used to study human development. The multidimensional scaling (MDS) method has been an under-utilised technique in psychological and educational research for studying such phenomena. In this paper, MDS profile analysis was used to examine adolescent mood change patterns over a 1-week period. This method is used to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Multidimensional Scaling, Profiles
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Pellegrini, A. D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Observed rough-and-tumble play in young adolescent boys on the playground. Found that sociometrically defined average and rejected boys spent a greater portion of their time in rough play compared to popular boys and did so with children who were less dominant than they, suggesting that some children exploit play bouts for their own…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Interpersonal Competence
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van Leeuwen, Karla; de Fruyt, Filip; Mervielde, Ivan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
This study addresses the utility of the resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled personality prototypes for predicting children's and adolescents' problem behaviour in a longitudinal general population sample (N = 491). Both parents and one child participated in the study at two measurement occasions separated by a 3-year interval. The major…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Personality, Longitudinal Studies