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Rebecca Slotkin; Karen L. Bierman; Linda N. Jacobson – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Developmental research suggests that peer rejection has negative spillover effects which strain parent-child relationships and parent attitudes toward the child's school. This study tested whether a school-based social skill training program could reverse these effects and improve parent-child closeness and parent attitudes toward the school.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes, Skill Development
da Silva, Brenda M. S.; Ketelaar, Lizet; Veiga, Guida; Tsou, Yung-Ting; Rieffe, Carolien – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Moral emotions are experienced in daily life and are crucial for mediating appropriate social behaviors, as they prevent individuals from committing transgressions. In this study, caregivers of 377 children aged between 2.5 and 6.5 years old completed the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ), a parent report aimed to separately identify the presence…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Psychological Patterns, Social Behavior, Questionnaires
Collie, Rebecca J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
The aim of the current article is to extend prior conceptualizing by presenting a model of social and emotional competence that recognizes both the mechanisms and the manifestations of social and emotional competence. The Social and Emotional Competence School Model draws together conceptual underpinnings from the social and emotional competence…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence, Psychological Needs
Northrup, Jessie Bolz – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
The present article proposes a new developmental model of how young infants adapt and respond to complex contingencies in their environment, and how this influences development. The model proposes that typically developing infants adjust to an increasingly complex environment in ways that make it easier for them to allocate limited attentional…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Adjustment (to Environment), Models
Zhang, Guangzhen; Eisenberg, Nancy; Liang, Zongbao; Li, Yi; Deng, Huihua – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
The main goals of the present study were (a) to compare Chinese migrant and nonmigrant adolescents on mean levels of parenting, positive adjustment, and academic functioning, and to assess whether socioeconomic status (SES) accounted for any obtained differences, (b) to examine whether the relations of SES and migrant status to youths' positive…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students
Lascano, Dayuma Ixchel Vargas; Galambos, Nancy L.; Hoglund, Wendy L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The increasingly prolonged transition to adulthood has raised concerns about the nature and timing of growth in the attainment of important psychosocial competencies in young people. Changes over time in self-reported competencies (work orientation, identity, intimacy) were examined in 198 Canadians, who were followed for the first 4 years of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Self Concept, Intimacy, Academic Achievement
Zhao, Siman; Chen, Xinyin; Wang, Li – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
This study examined the relations of maternal warmth, behavioral control, and encouragement of sociability to social, school, and psychological adjustment in migrant children in China. The participants were 284 rural-to-urban migrant children (M age = 11 years, 149 boys) in migrant children's schools and their mothers. Data on parenting were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Emotional Adjustment, Affective Behavior
Pulkkinen, Lea; Lyyra, Anna-Liisa; Kokko, Katja – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social capital assessed in early adulthood in linking self-control in childhood with psychological and social functioning in middle age. Data collected at ages 8, 27, and 42 years were based on the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (159 females, 177 males).…
Descriptors: Psychology, Social Networks, Social Capital, Social Development

Nsamenang, A. Bame; Lamb, Michael E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1993
Reports findings from interviews of 389 Nso parents or grandparents. Found that traditional values were widely endorsed but that mothers, parents, and urban respondents expressed less indigenous viewpoints than did fathers, grandparents, and rural respondents. Also discusses topics related to the socialization, learning, and social interaction of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Grandparents, Interpersonal Competence

Sharabany, Ruth; Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1981
Observed the social communication and task relevant behaviors of 80 kindergarten and first-grade children, each of whom was assigned to do a task with either a friend or a nonfriend. Results showed that friends exhibited less sharing and communicative behaviors and more task relevant behaviors. An explanatory model is suggested to account for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence
Chen, Xinyin; Zappulla, Carla; Coco, Alida Lo; Schneider, Barry; Kaspar, Violet; De Oliveira, Ana Maria; He, Yunfeng; Li, Dan; Li, Boshu; Bergeron, Natasha; Tse, Hennis Chi-Hang; DeSouza, Amanda – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
The purpose of the present study was to examine relations between self-perceptions of competence and social, behavioural, and school adjustment in Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese, and Italian children. Self-perception data were collected through children's self-reports. Information about social behaviours, peer acceptance, and school achievement was…
Descriptors: Shyness, Academic Achievement, Student Adjustment, Peer Acceptance