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Bidirectional Longitudinal Relations between Executive Function and Social Function across Adolescence
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Ben-Asher, Eliya; Porter, Blaire M.; Roe, Mary Abbe; Mitchell, Mackenzie E.; Church, Jessica A. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Executive function (EF) and social function are both critical skills that continue to develop through adolescence and are strongly predictive of many important life outcomes. Longstanding empirical and theoretical work has suggested that EF shapes social function. However, there is little empirical work on this topic in adolescence, despite both…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence
Prosocial Skills Causally Mediate the Relation between Effective Classroom Management and Academic Competence: An Application of Direction Dependence Analysis
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Wiedermann, Wolfgang; Reinke, Wendy M.; Herman, Keith C. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Direction dependence analysis (DDA) is a recently developed method that addresses the need for more sophisticated tools to evaluate causal mechanisms of developmental processes and interventions. The present study applied DDA to evaluate the hypothesized mediators of a classroom behavior management training program on student academic competence.…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Interpersonal Competence, Classroom Techniques, Causal Models
Prospective Associations between Friendship Adjustment and Social Strategies: Friendship as a Context for Building Social Skills
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Glick, Gary C.; Rose, Amanda J. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The proposal that friendships provide a context for the development of social skills is widely accepted. Yet little research exists to support this claim. In the present study, children and adolescents (N = 912) were presented with vignettes in which a friend encountered a social stressor and they could help the friend and vignettes in which they…
Descriptors: Friendship, Correlation, Interpersonal Competence, Children