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Peer reviewedBerndt, Thomas J.; Hawkins, Jacquelyn A.; Jiao, Ziyi – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1999
Examined influences of friends and friendships on adjustment to junior high school via self-reports, peer nominations, teacher ratings, and school records. Found that sociability and leadership increased if students had high-quality friendships, and behavior problems increased if students had friends with behavioral problems. Separate and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Behavior Problems, Friendship
Peer reviewedBerndt, Thomas J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
To examine the influence of friends on school achievement motivation, each of 118 eighth graders was paired with a close friend to discuss dilemmas concerning achievement motivation or an unrelated topic. Friends' decisions on motivational dilemmas were more similar after discussion than before. Discussions did not cause more extreme decisions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
Download full textBerndt, Thomas J.; Hawkins, Jacquelyn A. – 1985
The transition to junior high school can be a positive step toward increasing maturity, and a stressful period of adaptation as well. To investigate the contribution of friendships to children's adjustment after the transition to junior high school, students (N=101) from four elementary schools were tested during the spring of sixth grade, in the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Coping, Friendship, Grade 7
Peer reviewedBerndt, Thomas J.; Miller, Kristelle E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
To examine the relationship between expectancies and values and their contributions to achievement, 153 seventh graders (54 males and 99 females) completed multiple measures of expectancy and value. Expectancies and values contributed to achievement, and the constructs for both were positively correlated. Differences between males and females are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, English, Expectation
Berndt, Thomas J. – 1990
This document reports findings of two studies on relations between: (1) adolescents' peer relationships and their self-esteem; and (2) adolescents' social status and friendships. Participating in the first study were nearly 300 seventh- and eighth-graders who completed Harter's (1985) Self-Perception Profile for Children. This measure includes…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Friendship
Berndt, Thomas J.; Keefe, Keunho – 1993
This study investigated the effects of friendship on seventh and eighth graders' self-esteem. The study assessed: (1) whether changes in adolescents' self-esteem during a school year were related to the quality of their friendships early in the year; and (2) whether friends' ratings of their self-esteem became more similar over the course of the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Friendship, Grade 7
