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The Relationship among School Safety, School Liking, and Students' Self-Esteem: Based on a Multilevel Mediation Model
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Zhang, Xinghui; Xuan, Xin; Chen, Fumei; Zhang, Cai; Luo, Yuhan; Wang, Yun – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: Perceptions of school safety have an important effect on students' development. Based on the model of "context-process-outcomes," we examined school safety as a context variable to explore how school safety at the school level affected students' self-esteem. Methods: We used hierarchical linear modeling to examine the link…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Safety, Student School Relationship, Self Esteem
Susceptibility to Classmates' Influence on Delinquency during Early Adolescence
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Müller, Christoph M.; Hofmann, Verena; Arm, Sybille – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
Early adolescents vary in their susceptibility to peer influence on delinquency. However, it is still less clear which factors explain this variation and how these factors relate to each other. In this study, 10 factors that may moderate peer influence were investigated. A sample of 868 participants was followed across six occasions from seventh…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Peer Influence, Prevention, Gender Differences
Factors Underlying Contextual Variations in the Structure of the Self: Differences Related to SES, Gender, Culture, and "Majority/Nonmajority" Status during Early Adolescence
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Santo, Jonathan Bruce; Bukowski, William M.; Stella-Lopez, Luz; Carmago, Gina; Mayman, Shari B.; Adams, Ryan E. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
Multilevel modeling was used to examine contextual variations in the structure of the "self" in a sample of 918 lower- and upper-middle class early adolescents (M age = 10.37 years, SD = 1.19) from a "majority" cultural context (i.e., Barranquilla in the Caribbean region of Colombia) and a "nonmajority" context (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Early Adolescents, Self Concept, Middle Class
An Investigation of the Relationship between Teachers' Expectations and Teachers' Perceptions of Student Attributes
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Timmermans, Anneke C.; de Boer, Hester; van der Werf, Margaretha P. C. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
Little is known about factors other than students' abilities and background variables that shape teachers' achievement expectations. This study was aimed at investigating the role of teachers' perceptions of students attributes (working habits, popularity, self-confidence, student--teacher relationships, and classroom behavior) in shaping…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Expectations of Students, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
Self-Concept Development of Students with Disabilities: Disability Category, Gender, and Racial Differences from Early Elementary to High School
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Wei, Xin; Marder, Camille – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
Developmental trajectories of two self-concept constructs (self-confidence and importance beliefs) in three domains (academic, social, and self-image) were estimated in a nationally representative sample of approximately 3,500 students with disabilities ages 8 to 17 representing 11 federal disability categories. Students' self-confidence in the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Racial Differences, Concept Formation, Self Concept