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Social, Academic, and Psychological Characteristics of Peer Groups in Chinese Children: Same-Domain and Cross-Domain Effects on Individual Development
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Liu, Mengting; Chen, Xinyin; Fu, Rui; Li, Dan; Liu, Junsheng – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the contributions of social, academic, and psychological characteristics of peer groups to individual development in the same and different domains in Chinese children. Participants included 1,864 elementary school students (945 boys, M[subscript age] = 11 years) in China. One-year…
Descriptors: Social Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Psychological Characteristics, Foreign Countries
The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories
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Vasilyeva, Nadya; Gopnik, Alison; Lombrozo, Tania – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Representations of social categories help us make sense of the social world, supporting predictions and explanations about groups and individuals. In an experiment with 156 participants, we explore whether children and adults are able to understand category-property associations (such as the association between "girls" and "liking…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Classification, Children, Adults
Children Distinguish between Positive Pride and Hubris
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Nelson, Nicole L.; Russell, James A. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Adults distinguish expressions of hubris from those of positive pride. To determine whether children (N = 183; 78-198 months old) make a similar distinction, we asked them to attribute emotion labels and a variety of social characteristics to dynamic expressions intended to convey hubris and positive pride. Like adults, children attributed…
Descriptors: Children, Nonverbal Communication, Psychological Patterns, Social Characteristics
Development of Essentialist Thinking about Religion Categories in Northern Ireland (and the United States)
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Smyth, Kirsty; Feeney, Aidan; Eidson, R. Cole; Coley, John D. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Social essentialism, the belief that members of certain social categories share unobservable properties, licenses expectations that those categories are natural and a good basis for inference. A challenge for cognitive developmental theory is to give an account of how children come to develop essentialist beliefs about socially important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Religion, Classification
The Social Self in Early Adolescence: Two Longitudinal Investigations in the United States and China
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Setoh, Peipei; Qin, Lili; Zhang, Xin; Pomerantz, Eva M. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This research examined how children's inclusion of social personal attributes (e.g., talkative and argumentative) in their views of themselves changes over early adolescence in the United States and China. In 2 studies (N = 825 in Study 1 and 394 in Study 2) using open-ended methods (e.g., completion of "I ... " stems), American and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Individual Characteristics
Self-Other Orientations of Israeli Adolescents Reared in Kibbutzim and Moshavim
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Long, Barbara H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1973
The kibbutz showed more social interest and higher esteem, and, among the boys, less inclusiveness. High identification with parents in the kibbutz was positively associated with age and appeared related to the European background of parents. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Collective Settlements, Cultural Context
Relations between Neighborhood Factors, Parenting Behaviors, Peer Deviance, and Delinquency among Serious Juvenile Offenders
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Chung, He Len; Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The present study examined relations among neighborhood structural and social characteristics, parenting practices, peer group affiliations, and delinquency among a group of serious adolescent offenders. The sample of 14-18-year-old boys (N = 488) was composed primarily of economically disadvantaged, ethnic-minority youth living in urban…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Influence