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Asher, Steven R. – Today's Education: Social Studies Edition, 1982
Describes a research project which taught social skills to children who did not have friends in school. (RM)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Counseling Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHopmeyer, Andrea; Asher, Steven R. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Examined whether generalization about prosocial style of well-accepted children applies to conflicts involving rights infraction. Interviewed fourth- and fifth-graders about strategies for handling situations in which a peer infringes on their rights. Found that well-accepted children were neither aggressive nor particularly prosocial in conflict…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Child Behavior, Children, Conflict Resolution
Download full textZahavi, Shoshana; Asher, Steven R. – 1975
In an effort to test the effectiveness of verbal instruction in diminishing aggressive behavior, eight aggressive preschool children were individually instructed by their teacher on the harm that results from aggression, its lack of effects as an interpersonal strategy, and the benefits that result from prosocial alternatives. The eight subjects…
Descriptors: Aggression, Individual Instruction, Instruction, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedAsher, Steven R. – Child Development, 1983
Focuses on implications for intervention and highlights conceptual and methodological advances in studies establishing a causal link between social behavior and peer status. Studies reviewed investigate social interaction over time, use fine-grained coding systems, employ multiple measures, and videotape behavior in carefully designed analogue…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention
Peer reviewedRose, Amanda J.; Asher, Steven R. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined whether fourth- and fifth-grade children's social goals and strategies in friendship conflict situations are predictive of their friendship adjustment, after accounting for level of peer acceptance. Found that children's goals were highly related to their strategies and that children's goals and strategies were predictive of their…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Elementary School Students, Friendship, Grade 4
Erdley, Cynthia A.; Asher, Steven R. – 1993
To determine whether Slaby and Guerra's (1988) measure of aggression would reliably assess younger children's belief about aggression and whether children's belief about the legitimacy of aggression relates to their self-reports of it and to their levels of aggression as evaluated by peers, 781 fourth and fifth graders were asked to complete an…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Asher, Steven R.; And Others – 1974
This paper reviews research on children's friendships in nursery and elementary school settings. Studies that have implications for educational practice were selected for review. The first part of the paper is concerned with the influence of enduring personal characteristics on peer relations. Some of the stereotypes that affect children's…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students
