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Ackerman, Brian; Smith, Clare; Kobak, Roger – Social Development, 2009
This study of economically disadvantaged 13-year-olds examined the relations between serious reading difficulties and clinical levels of externalizing behaviors in school. The variable-centered results showed that family variables, adolescent verbal ability, and negative emotion patterns differed in uniquely predicting reading achievement and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Adolescents
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Erath, Stephen A.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E. – Social Development, 2009
This study investigated the role of mutual dislike dyads (MDDs) in the development of aggressive behavior across the middle childhood years. Of particular interest was whether involvement in MDDs predicted later aggression, and whether the magnitude of the association between MDDs and later aggression varied based on characteristics of target…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Aggression, Males, Predictor Variables
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Linting, Marielle; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – Social Development, 2009
In an intriguing account, the hypothesis is proposed that elevating effects of quantity of childcare on aggression might not, as other research has suggested, be dissipating over time, but instead be diffusing across groups of children. Paradoxically, this diffusion may also affect children with little or no experience with non-maternal care. If…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Individual Differences, Mothers, Fathers
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Abou-ezzeddine, Tania; Schwartz, David; Chang, Lei; Lee-Shin, Yoolim; Farver, JoAnn; Xu, Yiyuan – Social Development, 2007
This study examined the moderating role of positive peer relationships in the relation between behavioral or academic risk factors and victimization in Asian children's peer groups. We recruited 296 children (161 boys, 135 girls) from Tianjin, China (mean age of 11.5 years) and 122 children (66 boys, 56 girls) from Seoul, South Korea (approximate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims, Correlation, At Risk Students
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Hoglund, Wendy L. G.; Lalonde, Christopher E.; Leadbeater, Bonnie J. – Social Development, 2008
This prospective, longitudinal study examines individual differences in two conceptually related but empirically distinct domains of social-cognitive competence (cognitive interpretive understanding and interpersonal perspective co-ordination) as moderators of the relation between peer rejection and neglect and behavioral and emotional problems in…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Peer Relationship, Risk, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Gamble, Wendy C.; Modry-Mandell, Kerri – Social Development, 2008
This study examined the role of family cultural values as moderators of the association between family relations and the adjustment of young children. Fifty-five families of Mexican descent with young children enrolled in Head Start programs in the Southwest participated. Mothers provided information about closeness of the mother-child…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Family Characteristics, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children
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Wilson, Beverly J. – Social Development, 2006
This study investigated the entry behavior and temperamental characteristics of aggressive/rejected and nonaggressive/popular kindergarten and first-grade children. An analog entry situation was used to assess children's entry skills. Aggressive/rejected children had more difficulty than nonaggressive/popular children delivering their entry bids…
Descriptors: Aggression, Rejection (Psychology), Peer Acceptance, Behavior Problems
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Petrides, K. V.; Sangareau, Yolanda; Furnham, Adrian; Frederickson, Norah – Social Development, 2006
Trait emotional intelligence ("trait EI" or "trait emotional self-efficacy") is a constellation of emotion"related self"perceptions and dispositions comprising the affective aspects of personality. The present study investigated the role of trait EI in children's peer relations at school. One hundred and sixty pupils (83 girls; mean age = 10.8…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Self Efficacy, Construct Validity, Peer Relationship