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Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Kakarani, Styliani; Kolovou, Demetra – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
The present study examined the relationships between shyness, a number of personal and interpersonal variables (i.e. social skills, self-esteem, attachment style, advanced Theory of Mind skills and peer relations) in a sample of 243 Greek pre-adolescents. Participants completed self-reports of the variables. Results indicated that females scored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Shyness, Interpersonal Competence
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Kacmar, K. Michele; Carlson, Dawn S.; Bratton, Virginia K. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2004
This study examined both situational and dispositional antecedents of four ingratiatory behaviors: other-enhancing, opinion conformity, favor rendering, and self-promotion. The two situational variables (i.e., role ambiguity and leader-member exchange) and the four dispositional variables (i.e., self-esteem, need for power, job involvement, and…
Descriptors: Behavior, Influences, Context Effect, Personality Traits
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Smith, Heather M.; Betz, Nancy E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
Examines models of self-efficacy and self-esteem pathways to depression in 405 college students. Both models showed excellent fit to the data. The more parsimonious model indicated that efficacy and esteem variables were related to depressive symptoms indirectly through their relationships to the intermediate adjustment variables of career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making, Depression (Psychology)
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de la Barra, Flora; Toledo, Virginia; Rodriguez, Jorge – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2005
Five hundred and thirty five Chilean schoolchildren were evaluated with a test-retest procedure using teacher and parent questionnaires in first and sixth grade, respectively, and a measure of self-esteem in sixth grade. According to teachers' ratings, disobedience/aggression, shyness and hyperactivity persisted. Crosspredictions were found:…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Grade 1