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Is Peer Victimization Associated with Adolescents' Social Media Use, Engagement, Behavior, and Content?
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Resnik, Felice; Bellmore, Amy – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
As a test of the poor-get-poorer hypothesis, which shows that socially anxious teens are less likely to communicate online and in turn feel less closeness to friends, this study explored whether peer victimization is similarly related to social media involvement. High-school participants (n = 307, M[subscript age] = 15.91) reported about their…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Bullying, Safety, Social Media
Pragmatics of Self-Praise and Self-Presentation by Iranian EFL Learners on Instagram
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Chalak, Azizeh – TESL-EJ, 2021
The advent of social networks has provided a good platform for everyone to share information to present themselves. Instagram is a tool to participate in social reciprocity, not only by the exploration of information but also through self-praise. This study examined the self-praise by Iranian EFL learners on Instagram from a pragmatic perspective.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Social Networks, Social Media
The Interactive Media Package for Assessment of Communication and Critical Thinking (IMPACCT[c]): Testing a Programmatic Online Communication Competence Assessment System
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Spitzberg, Brian H. – Communication Education, 2011
IMPACCT is an online survey covering over 40 self-report types of student communication competency, as well as a test of critical thinking based on cognitive problem-solving. The student nominates two peers who rate the student's interpersonal, computer-mediated, group and leadership, and public speaking communication competence. The student takes…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Critical Thinking, Communication Skills, Computer Mediated Communication
Susceptibility to Peer Influence: Using a Performance-Based Measure to Identify Adolescent Males at Heightened Risk for Deviant Peer Socialization
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Prinstein, Mitchell J.; Brechwald, Whitney A.; Cohen, Geoffrey L. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
A substantial amount of research has suggested that adolescents' attitudes and behaviors are influenced by peers; however, little is known regarding adolescents' individual variability, or susceptibility, to peer influence. In this study, a performance-based index from an experimental paradigm was used to directly measure adolescents'…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Adolescents, Peer Influence, Males
The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal
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Rubin, Kenneth H., Ed.; Coplan, Robert J., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2010
While both positive and negative peer interactions have long been a focus of scientific interest, much less attention has been given to children who tend to refrain from interacting with peers. This volume brings together leading authorities to review progress in understanding the development, causes, and consequences of shyness and social…
Descriptors: Shyness, Cross Cultural Studies, Academic Achievement, Personality
A Study of First- and Continuing-Generation College Students' Use of Internet Communication Technologies in Social Capital and Its Contribution to Their Persistence in College
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Hodge, Gail D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Prior studies have shown that students who are the first in their families to attend college fail to persist in college more so than their continuing-generation (CG) counterparts do. Prior research on this phenomenon has helped to identify various factors that contribute to the lower college persistence of first-generation (FG) students. For…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Grade Point Average, Income, Academic Persistence