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Veenstra, René; Lodder, Gerine M. A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
This article focuses on the link between social norms and behavioral development as presented in research on norms regarding bullying and aggression. The aim is to present a conceptual framework for how classroom norms may explain children's decisions to defend others or refrain from defending. Norms emerge from group consensus about what is…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, Student Behavior, Classroom Environment
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Daniel, Ella; Benish-Weisman, Maya; Sneddon, Joanne N.; Lee, Julie A. – Child Development, 2020
Little is known about how children's value priorities develop over time. This study identifies children's value priority profiles and follows their development during middle childhood. Australian children (N = 609; ages 5-12 at Time 1) reported their values over 2 years. Latent Transition Analysis indicated four profiles: Social-Focus, Self-Focus,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Values, Children, Preadolescents
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Weimer, Amy A.; Burleson, Cheryl; Stegall, Sarah E.; Eisenman, Russell – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The present study examined relations between Theory of Mind (ToM) understanding and social competence among school-age Latino children. Participants included 62 children ages 6-12 years. Picture vocabulary was assessed via a standardized language survey, and ToM assessed via Happé's [(1994). An advanced test of theory of mind: Understanding of…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Interpersonal Competence, Correlation, Children
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García-Gómez, Andrés; Risco, Manuel López; Rubio, Jesús Carlos; Guerrero, Eloisa; García-Peña, Inés Magdalena – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
Introduction: The use of horses in therapy has a fairly long history. There are many references to the therapeutic benefits of this activity. Such therapies have been undergoing a boom internationally in recent years. However scientific research into the effective use of this activity in children with autism is still in the early stages of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Animals, Therapeutic Recreation
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Dollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The primary aims of the current study were to longitudinally examine the direct relationship between children's temperamental surgency and social behaviors as well as the moderating role of children's emotion regulation. A total of 90 4.5-year-old children participated in a laboratory visit where children's temperamental surgency was rated by…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Laboratories, Grade 1
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Chen, Xinyin; Wang, Li; Li, Dan; Liu, Junsheng – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study examined loneliness and its associations with social functioning in children across different historical times and contexts in China. We collected data from urban and rural groups of school-age children (N = 2,588; M age = 10 years) using self-reports and peer assessments. The results indicated that children in 2002 and 2005 urban…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Social Development, Children
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Tanidir, Canan; Mukaddes, Nahit M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Objectives: To investigate the most frequent reasons for referral, the most common special interests, age at first referral to a mental health service, and the age of diagnosis in children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome living in Turkey. Methods: This study includes 61 children and adolescents diagnosed with Asperger syndrome using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asperger Syndrome, Children, Adolescent Attitudes
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Ostrov, Jamie M.; Godleski, Stephanie A. – Psychological Review, 2010
An integrative model is proposed for understanding the development of physical and relational aggression in early and middle childhood. The central goal was to posit a new theoretical framework that expands on existing social-cognitive and gender schema models (i.e., Social Information-Processing Model of Children's Adjustment [N. R. Crick & K. A.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Sex Role, Children, Gender Differences
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Fahim, Cherine; Fiori, Marina; Evans, Alan C.; Perusse, Daniel – Social Development, 2012
The goal of this study is twofold: (1) to assess brain anatomical differences between children meeting diagnostic criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and healthy controls, and (2) to investigate whether morphological brain characteristics associated with ODD differ in boys and girls. Eight-year-old participants (N = 38) were scanned…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Social Behavior, Self Control, Etiology
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Werner, Nicole E.; Hill, Laura G. – Child Development, 2010
Studies show that children who use relational aggression process social information in unique ways; however, findings have been inconsistent and limited by methodological weaknesses. This short-term longitudinal study examined developmental changes in 245 (49% female; ages 8-13) 3rd through 8th graders' normative beliefs about relational…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Groups, Norms, Beliefs
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Malti, Tina; Gasser, Luciano; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
The study investigated interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions in relation to social behaviour in a sample of 59 5-year-old, 123 7-year-old, and 130 9-year-old children. Interpretive understanding was assessed by two tasks measuring children's understanding of ambiguous situations. Moral judgments and emotion…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Foreign Countries, Task Analysis, Age Differences
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van Nieuwenhuijzen, M.; Vriens, A.; Scheepmaker, M.; Smit, M.; Porton, E. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
A growing interest exists in the measuring of social adaptive functioning in children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities (MBID), but valid instruments to measure this construct are lacking. The aim of the present study was to develop such an instrument and to examine it on its discriminate validity. In 141 children aged 8-12 years a…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mental Retardation, Perspective Taking, Short Term Memory
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Handen, Benjamin L.; Sagady, Amie E.; McAuliffe-Bellin, Sarah – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 9-12% of individuals with intellectual disability (ID). Although psychostimulant medication is often the primary treatment modality, little is known regarding the effects of such agents on social interactions and play in this population. Additionally, the role of ADHD symptoms in social and…
Descriptors: Play, Mental Retardation, Drug Therapy, Children
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Pruitt, Doyle K.; Dulmus, Catherine N. – School Social Work Journal, 2010
Sexual aggression in children and youths has received increased attention over the past twenty years as a result of increasing awareness of the problem. Yet despite this augmentation of interest, limited attention has been paid to sexual aggression in children and youths with developmental disabilities. As a group, juveniles are responsible for…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disability Identification, School Social Workers, Social Work
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van Oorsouw, W. M. W. J.; Israel, M. L.; von Heyn, R. E.; Duker, P. C. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
In this study, the side effects of contingent shock (CS) treatment were addressed with a group of nine individuals, who showed severe forms of self-injurious behavior (SIB) and aggressive behavior. Side effects were assigned to one of the following four behavior categories; (a) positive verbal and nonverbal utterances, (b) negative verbal and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Self Destructive Behavior, Drug Therapy, Behavior Modification
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