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A Defensive Mindset: A Pattern of Social Information Processing That Develops Early and Predicts Life Course Outcomes
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bai, Yu; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Jones, Damon – Child Development, 2022
The hypothesis was tested that some children develop a defensive mindset that subsumes individual social information processing (SIP) steps, grows from early experiences, and guides long-term outcomes. In Study 1 (Fast Track [FT]), 463 age-5 children (45% girls; 43% Black) were first assessed in 1991 and followed through age 32 (83% retention). In…
Descriptors: Defense Mechanisms, Personality Traits, Emotional Response, Social Cognition
Perceived Mother and Father Acceptance-Rejection Predict Four Unique Aspects of Child Adjustment across Nine Countries
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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have been incompletely documented, and whether these effects hold across diverse populations and for mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Rejection (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship
Situational Approach to the Assessment of Social Competence in Children.
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1985
Generated a taxonomy of situations most likley to lead deviant children to experience social difficulties. Study 1 administered a survey to teachers of rejected (N=45) and adaptive (N=39) children. Found six main situation types. Study 2 tested 15 items within the six situations. The items differentiated the two groups. (BH)
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer Social Preference and Depressive Symptoms of Children in Italy and the United States
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Capanna, Cristina; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Pastorelli, Concetta – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
This study examined the role of low social preference in relation to subsequent depressive symptoms, with particular attention to prior depressive symptoms, prior and concurrent aggression, mutual friendships, and peer victimization. Italian children (N = 288) were followed from grade 6 through grade 8, and American children (N = 585) were…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Foreign Countries
Identifying Children Who Are Rejected by Their Peers.
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Asher, Steven R.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Evaluates a method of identifying rejected elementary school children that involves the use of positive-nomination and rating scale measures. Shows rejected children can be identified with reasonable accuracy without administering a negative-nomination measure. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Measurement Techniques, Peer Evaluation
Peer Status and Aggression in Boys' Groups: Developmental and Contextual Analyses.
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Considered the relation between peer status and aggressive behavior, the temporal relation between peer group behavior and emerging sociometric status, differences in behavioral correlates of peer status as a function of time that peers have known each other, and age differences in the consistency of status across settings and in behavior patterns…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Elementary School Students, Group Dynamics
Behavioral Antecedents of Peer Social Status.
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Dodge, Kenneth A. – Child Development, 1983
The development of sociometric status in children's peer groups over time was observed among 48 unacquainted second-grade boys brought together in play groups of eight boys each. Observers recorded free-play interaction behaviors of each boy by using a complex event-recording system and video cameras. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Multiple Sources of Data on Social Behavior and Social Status in the School: A Cross-Age Comparison.
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Coie, John D.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Child Development, 1988
Results generated by peers, teachers, and unbiased observers converged in some behavioral domains and diverged in others. All three sources provided similar pictures of the relation between aggression and status, although observations of third grade boys did not yield sufficient frequencies of aggression to allow meaningful conclusions. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Check Lists, Child Neglect