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Perceptions of ADHD Symptoms in Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Attributions and Stigma
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Varma, Angela; Wiener, Judith – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2020
This study investigated attributions and stigmatization self-perceptions of 40 adolescents with and 34 adolescents without ADHD for their problematic behaviors and ADHD as a disorder. Adolescents identified behaviors that they believed described them, indicated which of these behaviors was most problematic for them, and responded to a…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Behavior Problems, Adolescents
Asian-Indian Parents' Attributions about the Causes of Child Behavior: A Replication and Extension with Parents from Chennai, India
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Montemayor, Raymond; Ranganathan, Chitra – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
Using hypothetical vignettes, 152 parents of children 10-17 years old living in Chennai, India, made attributions about whether the origins of 2 positive and 2 negative behaviors performed by their own child or another child were due to the child's personality or the situation, or to parenting or nonparenting influences based on the frequency,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Vignettes, Foreign Countries
Processes of Attribution and Children's Self-Punishment following Misbehavior.
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Perry, David G.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Explores some attributional determinants of third and fourth graders' self-punishment following transgression in a moral situation. Results were interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that children who are told by adults that they possess desirable moral characteristics experience particularly strong remorse when they fail to exercise…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Children, Foreign Countries
Cognitive Features Associated with Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Directionality and Specificity
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McCarty, Carolyn A.; Stoep, Ann Vander; McCauley, Elizabeth – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
In this study we examined cognitive features that have been posited to contribute to depressive vulnerability in adolescents. Using a longitudinal sample of 331 young adolescents followed from 6th to 7th grade, cross-lagged structural equation analyses were conducted. Controlling for baseline levels of depressive, conduct, and anxiety symptoms,…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 6, Rejection (Psychology), Depression (Psychology)
Effective Teachers of Students with Behavioral Disorders: Are Generic Teaching Skills Enough?
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Kauffman, James M.; Wong, Kathleen L. H. – Behavioral Disorders, 1991
Research is reviewed on classroom behavior, demandingness, and beliefs of effective teachers of nonhandicapped students with behavior problems, and the need for different attitudes and additional skills for teaching students with behavioral disorders is discussed. Teacher characteristics analyzed include instructional and management strategies,…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards
Locus of Control, Motives and Crime Prevention Attitudes of Classroom Facilitators and Inhibitors.
Gnagey, William J. – 1979
It is time to stop blaming the rise in serious student misbehavior on families, peers, teachers, school systems and society, and to begin to hold students responsible for their own actions. To compare the personal characteristics of disruptive and "normal" students, teachers in a small high school identified 69 inhibitors (disruptive students) and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Delinquency Prevention, High School Students