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Predictive Value of Empathy Components for Types of Aggression in the School Setting: A Cross-Country Comparison
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Kozina, Ana; Marušic, Iris; Oskarsson, Magnus; Veldin, Manja; Vidmar, Maša; Mlekuž, Ana; Štremfel, Urška; Vršnik Perše, Tina – Educational Studies, 2022
Aggressive behaviour has negative consequences for students who are exposed to it and those who are aggressive. In addition to a number of negative consequences at the individual level aggression negatively impacts processes within the school. Successful methods of preventing and reducing aggressive behaviour at school often include activities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Aggression, Empathy
Predictors of Friendship Quality in Adolescents with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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Rokeach, Alan; Wiener, Judith – School Mental Health, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of friendship quality in adolescents with and without ADHD. The participants were 115 adolescents (61 ADHD, 54 non-ADHD), ages 13-18. The adolescents completed questionnaires assessing the quality of their relationships with their best friends, social perspective taking, anxiety and depression.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Friendship, Clinical Diagnosis, Anxiety
Does Empathy Predict Instructional Assignment-Related Stress? A Study in Special and General Education Teachers
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Platsidou, Maria; Agaliotis, Ioannis – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2017
The role of empathy in the teaching profession has been vastly investigated in relation to its effect on students, but research on how teachers' empathy affects their own well-being at work is limited. This study investigated empathy and instructional assignment-related stress factors of primary school teachers serving in general or special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empathy, Predictor Variables, Stress Variables
The Social Values Development of Preschoolers: An Investigation of the Joint Impact Hypothesis
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Strand, Paul S.; Downs, Andrew – Developmental Psychology, 2018
We investigated the role of sociocultural (between-groups) and individual (within-group) factors on the development of preschoolers' resource-allocation preferences. We tested claims of the "joint impact hypothesis" of social values development that social-emotional understanding skills would predict the transition from simpler…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Hispanic American Students, English, Spanish
Developing College Students' Civic Identity: The Role of Social Perspective Taking and Sociocultural Issues Discussions
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Johnson, Matthew – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
The development of college students' civic identity is understudied, but worthy of attention because of its salience to many students and higher education's commitment to fostering an engaged citizenry. Using 45,271 participants from the 2009 Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership, this study uses structural equation modeling to explore…
Descriptors: College Students, Sociocultural Patterns, Citizenship, Identification (Psychology)
Young Children's Developing Understanding of Conceptual Perspective Taking.
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Szarkowicz, Diane Louise – 1997
In an attempt to validate the findings of other researchers regarding the development of conceptual perspective taking, this study used Taylor's (1988) 2-tiered model to examine development of perspective taking among 40 3- to 5-year-olds. Participating were 22 males and 18 females from English-speaking backgrounds attending a preschool in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries