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Rogers-Millar, L. Edna; Millar, Frank E., III – 1977
This paper discusses the conceptualization of interpersonal power and offers a relational definition and measure of power. A distinction is made between "power attempts" (domineering message behavior) and "power" (transactional patterns of dominance). To test this distinction, 45 husband/wife dyads were randomly sampled from a…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Damico, Sandra; Purkey, William – 1976
The purpose of this study was to begin exploration of the "class clown" phenomenon. Eighth grade students identified as class clowns on the basis of multiple peer nominations were compared to a random sample of classmates on: inferred and professed self-concept, school attitude, social status, and classroom behavior. Various demographic…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Educational Research, Humor, Junior High Schools
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Lopez-Williams, Andy; Chacko, Anil; Wymbs, Brian T.; Fabiano, Gregory A.; Seymour, Karen E.; Gnagy, Elizabeth M.; Chronis, Andrea M.; Burrows-MacLean, Lisa; Pelham, William E.; Morris, Tracy L. – Journal of Emotional & Behavioral Disorders, 2005
Sixty-three children between ages 6 and 12 who were enrolled in a summer treatment program for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) participated in a study designed to measure the relationship between social behaviors, athletic performance, and peer acceptance. Children were assessed on sport-specific skills of three major…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Peer Acceptance, Sociometric Techniques, Physical Activities
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Kaplan, Henry K.; Kaufman, Ira – Psychology in the Schools, 1978
Behavior checklist and sociometric data on emotionally disturbed children in residential treatment were correlated. Behaviors found to relate significantly (and negatively) with sociometric status pertained to physical and verbal aggression and intrusive acts. A smaller group of items of a less interpersonal nature also significantly correlated…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children, Institutionalized Persons
Baltus, Dale F. – 1974
Proxemics is a simulation designed to show how man exhibits different behaviors in given distances. Additionally, the simulation, in most instances, shows how people are feeling toward one another at the time a particular distance is used. The four main distances that man observes are intimate, personal, social, and public. Each of these distances…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Human Relations, Interpersonal Relationship
Leyser, Yona – 1976
The purpose of this study was to design an intervention strategy, including role-playing techniques and activities, and to train teachers in their use in the classroom in order to improve the social status of socially rejected children. Other objectives were to change teachers' and peers' perceptions of the rejected children as well as to change…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Group Dynamics, Group Status