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Bowker, Julie C.; Sette, Stefania; Ooi, Laura L.; Bayram-Ozdemir, Sevgi; Braathu, Nora; Bølstad, Evalill; Castillo, Karen Noel; Dogan, Aysun; Greco, Carolina; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kim, Hyoun K.; Kim, Yunhee; Liu, Junsheng; Oh, Wonjung; Rapee, Ronald M.; Wong, Quincy J. J.; Xiao, Bowen; Zuffianò, Antonio; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ("Social Preference Scale--Revised"; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; M[subscript age] = 20.08 years,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Withdrawal (Psychology), Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Higgins, Julianne M.; Arnold, Samuel R. C.; Weise, Janelle; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Trollor, Julian N. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Although commonly described on social media by autistic people, there is little recognition of autistic burnout in the academic literature. Anecdotally, autistic burnout is described as a debilitating condition that severely impacts functioning, is linked to suicidal ideation and is driven by the stress of masking and living in an unaccommodating…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Burnout, Stress Variables
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Arnold, Samuel R.C.; Higgins, Julianne M.; Weise, Janelle; Desai, Aishani; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Trollor, Julian N. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Autistic burnout is an experience commonly described by autistic people (#AutBurnout and #AutisticBurnout on social media). Recently, two definitions of this syndrome have been published. Both describe debilitating exhaustion with onset related to various stressors including masking, though several differences exist, such as the characteristic of…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Burnout, Stress Variables, Fatigue (Biology)
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Dovchin, Sender – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Drawing on ethnographic interview data informed by international students in Australia, this study aims to expand the notion of 'linguistic racism' through two main traits -- 'ethnic accent bullying' and 'linguistic stereotyping.' 'Ethnic accent bullying' refers to bullying in the forms of 'laughing' and 'joking' towards ethnically and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Student Attitudes, Racial Bias, Second Languages
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Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J.; Skinner, Ellen A.; Morris, Helen; Thomas, Rae – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
The same stressor can evoke different emotions across individuals, and emotions can prompt certain coping responses. Responding to four videotaped interpersonal stressors, adolescents ("N" = 230, the average values of "X"[subscript age] = 10 years) reported their sadness, fear "and" anger, and 12 coping strategies.…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Ren, Yonggang – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This study aims to examine social competence of Chinese immigrant children and its associations with age, length of attendance in childcare, gender, generational status and proficiencies in English and Mandarin Chinese. One hundred Mandarin-speaking children aged three to five years from 15 childcare centres in Sydney were assessed by normed…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Immigrants, Mandarin Chinese, Child Care
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Katz, Shaina J.; Conway, Christopher C.; Hammen, Constance L.; Brennan, Patricia A.; Najmanm, Jake M. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
Building on interpersonal theories of depression, the current study sought to explore whether early childhood social withdrawal serves as a risk factor for depressive symptoms and diagnoses in young adulthood. The researchers hypothesized that social impairment at age 15 would mediate the association between social withdrawal at age 5 and…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Pregnancy, Risk, Children
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Renshaw, Peter D.; Brown, Peter J. – Child Development, 1993
Data collected from 128 third through sixth graders over a 1-year period demonstrated that individuals with withdrawn social behavior, low peer acceptance, few or no friendships, and an internal-stable attributional style were more likely to have higher levels of concurrent and future loneliness than individuals not exhibiting these…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Friendship
Renshaw, Peter D.; Brown, Peter J. – 1991
This study investigated the relation of loneliness in middle childhood to behavioral, sociometric, and attributional measures of social functioning. Data for 128 third- through sixth-graders were collected on three occasions during a 1-year span. Teachers completed a rating scale assessing students' social behavior. Children's peer acceptance was…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Walker, Sue – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2005
In this study, the author examined the relationship between theory-of-mind understanding and preschool-aged children's peer-related social competence. One hundred eleven 3- to 5-year-old children (48 boys, 63 girls) participated in 2 theory-of-mind tasks designed to assess their understanding of false belief. Teachers rated children's peer-related…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Peer Relationship, Withdrawal (Psychology), Gender Differences
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Martin, Andrew J.; Linfoot, Ken W.; Stephenson, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2005
There is increasing concern about the number of preschool children displaying problem behaviour. This study examines the relative contribution of potential risk factors, particularly those related to families, to problem behaviour in the lives of a sample of western Sydney three- to five-year-old children. Problem behaviour was assessed using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior