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Chen, Mengdi; Wu, Xinyao – School Psychology International, 2021
As a causal attribution, attributing academic success to giftedness might influence students' academic achievement. According to previous studies, students' self-regulated learning and negative learning emotions may mediate the association between achievement attribution and academic achievement. Therefore, the present study employed structural…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Self Management, Negative Attitudes
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Woodcock, Stuart; Moore, Brian – Educational Psychology, 2021
Students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) often appear to experience poorer educational and occupational outcomes than their peers. It is important to consider how these outcomes may be perpetuated by stereotypes and stigma associated with SpLD. One hundred and fifty-four primary (elementary) school teachers from the United Kingdom were…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Labeling (of Persons), Stereotypes
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Bentley, Kia J.; Cohen-Filipic, Katherine; Cummings, Cory R. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
Social workers often feel ill-prepared to effectively engage parents in conversations about guilt, shame, and blame related to their children's mental health or substance use challenges. To address that problem, we suggest that specific content should be integrated into social work courses to teach students how to acknowledge and sensitively…
Descriptors: Social Work, Parent Child Relationship, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
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Williams, Amanda; Steele, Jennifer R.; Lipman, Corey – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
In the current research, we examined whether the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) could be successfully adapted as an implicit measure of children's attitudes. We tested this possibility in 3 studies with 5- to 10-year-old children. In Study 1, we found evidence that children misattribute affect elicited by attitudinally positive (e.g., cute…
Descriptors: Animals, Gender Differences, Priming, Psychological Patterns
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Gasser, Luciano; Malti, Tina; Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Eveline – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
The authors investigated 7- and 9-year-old children's moral understanding of retaliation as compared to unprovoked aggression with regard to their aggressive behavior status. Based on peer ratings, 48 children were selected as overtly aggressive and 91 as nonaggressive. Their moral understanding of retaliation and unprovoked aggression was…
Descriptors: Aggression, Moral Values, Attribution Theory, Children
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Henning, Kris; Connor-Smith, Jennifer – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
In contrast to the extensive literature on women's decisions to leave violent relationships, there is little research examining relationship continuity from the offending male's perspective. Similarly, research exploring relationship satisfaction in men arrested for intimate partner violence (IPV) is lacking, despite the fact that dissatisfaction…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Victims of Crime, Males
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Godleski, Stephanie A.; Ostrov, Jamie M. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2010
The present study used both categorical and dimensional approaches to test the association between relational and physical aggression and hostile intent attributions for both relational and instrumental provocation situations using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development longitudinal Study of Early Child Care and Youth…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Health, Psychopathology, Developmental Psychology
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Ling, Candy Y. M.; Mak, Winnie W. S.; Cheng, Janice N. S. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
Background: Accounting for the effects of knowledge of and experience with autism, the relationships of cognitive attribution (perceived controllability), emotions (anger and sympathy), as well as helping and punitive behavioural intentions towards children with autism were examined. Based on the attribution model, mediating effects of anger and…
Descriptors: Autism, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Pillow, Bradford H.; Lovett, Suzanne B.; Hill, Valerie – Infant and Child Development, 2008
This study investigated children's, adolescents', and adults' references to an actor's goals when explaining interpersonal actions. Participants were presented with eight brief stories containing a variety of social events and were asked to explain why the actor in each story performed the central action. Children, adolescents, and adults…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Adults, Objectives
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Ingram, Rick E.; Nelson, Tyler; Steidtmann, Dana K.; Bistricky, Steven L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
As a way to better understand the effects of treatment for depression, comparative data on measures of cognition have been compiled previously for adults. Such data should be able to aid the evaluation of cognition and cognitive change, and may provide valuable information for clinicians and researchers alike. In this article, analogous…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Comparative Analysis, Children
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Klaczynski, Paul; Daniel, David B.; Keller, Peggy S. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
We explored the hypotheses that adolescents have more negative obesity stereotypes than children and that age differences in obesity stereotypes are mediated by weight attributions, body esteem, and appearance idealization. Hispanic- and Caucasian-American children completed measures of appearance idealization, body esteem, and attributions about…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Ethnicity, Obesity, Females
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Covell, Katherine; Abramovitch, Rona – Child Development, 1987
Children 5 to 15 years old answered questions on causal attributions of their own and their mothers' emotions, and methods for inferring and changing maternal emotion. Parents were asked reciprocal questions. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Influences, Mothers
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Chen, Mandy; Seipp, Carla M.; Johnston, Charlotte – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2008
This study examined parent and child gender effects on parents' attributions and beliefs in regards to child symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participants included mothers and fathers of 19 girls and 17 boys with ADHD. Groups of boys and girls, aged 5-13 years, were equated on age and medication status, as well as ADHD…
Descriptors: Mothers, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Child Behavior
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Gibb, Brandon E.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Walshaw, Patricia D.; Comer, Jonathan S.; Shen, Gail H. C.; Villari, Annette G. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
A number of studies have supported the hypothesis that negative attributional styles may confer vulnerability to the development of depression. The goal of this study was to explore factors that may contribute to the development of negative attributional styles in children. As hypothesized, elevated levels of depressive symptoms and hopelessness…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Depression (Psychology), Children, Followup Studies
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Christian, Marcelle D.; Barbarin, Oscar A. – Journal of Black Psychology, 2001
Explored the relationship of family sociocultural resources to adjustment among low-income African American children. Parent surveys examined sociodemographic variables, child behavior, and parent religiosity. Results indicated that children of regular church attenders had fewer behavior problems than those who attended less frequently. The use of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Black Youth
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