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Lancieri, Luigi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Several studies point out the link between sociability and academic results. In this paper, we highlight a phenomenon of asymmetry in the perception of friendship. This occurs when a student think he has more or less friends than he really has. We present an experimental method that allows us to analyze this question in relation with the academic…
Descriptors: Friendship, Interpersonal Relationship, Academic Achievement, Social Networks
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Suranyi, Zsuzsanna; Hitchcock, David B.; Hittner, James B.; Vargha, Andras; Urban, Robert – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Previous research on sensation seeking (SS) was dominated by a variable-oriented approach indicating that SS level has a linear relation with a host of problem behaviors. Our aim was to provide a person-oriented methodology--a probabilistic clustering--that enables examination of both inter- and intra-individual differences in not only the level,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Behavior Problems, Conceptual Tempo, Individual Differences
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Cyr, Mireille; McDuff, Pierre; Hebert, Martine – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
Maternal support offered to sexually abused children following disclosure may be a crucial factor in children's recovery. A person-centered approach was used to examine how profiles of nonoffending mothers could better describe their ability to support their children after disclosure. Cluster analyses based on a total of 226 nonoffending mothers…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Mothers, Profiles