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Characteristics of Socially Successful Elementary School-Aged Children with Autism
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Locke, Jill; Williams, Justin; Shih, Wendy; Kasari, Connie – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: The extant literature demonstrates that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulty interacting and socially connecting with typically developing classmates. However, some children with ASD have social outcomes that are consistent with their typically developing counterparts. Little is known about this subgroup…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Interpersonal Competence, Success, Elementary School Students
Peer Mentoring during the Transition to University: Assessing the Usage of a Formal Scheme within the UK
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Collings, Rosalyn; Swanson, Vivien; Watkins, Ruth – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Although mentoring has become increasingly popular within UK higher education, there is little evaluative research. The current longitudinal study aimed to evaluate the usage of a peer mentoring scheme during a first semester at university amongst 124 students. Results indicate that during the first week at university the majority accessed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Groups, Mentors, Transitional Programs
Role of Social Performance in Predicting Learning Problems: Prediction of Risk Using Logistic Regression Analysis
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Del Prette, Zilda Aparecida Pereira; Prette, Almir Del; De Oliveira, Lael Almeida; Gresham, Frank M.; Vance, Michael J. – School Psychology International, 2012
Social skills are specific behaviors that individuals exhibit in order to successfully complete social tasks whereas social competence represents judgments by significant others that these social tasks have been successfully accomplished. The present investigation identified the best sociobehavioral predictors obtained from different raters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Problems, Peer Groups, Interpersonal Competence
Preschool Predictors of Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Prospective Community Study
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Wichstrøm, Lars; Belsky, Jay; Berg-Nielsen, Turid Suzanne – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Anxiety disorders are often present at preschool age. Research on older children and studies contrasting preschoolers with high versus low behavioral inhibition (BI) highlight several risk factors, but these have not been investigated in community samples of young children. Child, parent, and peer factors at age 4 were therefore…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Anxiety Disorders, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Early Peer Interaction as a Predictor of Later Social Adjustment: Results from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study.
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; And Others – 1997
This study tested the predictive links between children's interactions with peers in early elementary school and their social and emotional adjustment at the end of elementary school. A sample of 231 boys starting kindergarten and first grade were observed during this longitudinal study, on three separate occasions: kindergarten and first grade,…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Emotional Adjustment, Interpersonal Competence
Peer Relationships in Child Development.
Berndt, Thomas J., Ed.; Ladd, Gary W., Ed. – 1989
Although hypotheses about the consequences of peer relationships for children's development have served as the foundation for much of the research into children and adolescent peer relationships, direct assessment of the impact of such relationships on children's personality, social behavior, or cognition has rarely been done. This book discusses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Child Development