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The Moderating Role of Classroom Descriptive Norms in the Association of Student Behavior with Social Preference and Popularity
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Boor-Klip, Henrike J.; Segers, Eliane; Hendrickx, Marloes M. H. G.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
This study addressed the moderating role of classroom descriptive norms for overt and relational aggression, social withdrawal, prosocial behavior, and academic reputation in the association of behavior with social preference and popularity in early adolescence. Participants were 1,492 fifth-grade students ([x-bar][subscript age] = 10.6 years,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Peer Acceptance, Correlation, Aggression
Social Adjustment of Deaf Early Adolescents at the Start of Secondary School: The Divergent Role of Withdrawn Behavior in Peer Status
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Wolters, Nina; Knoors, Harry; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Exceptional Children, 2014
This study examined the peer relationships and social behaviors of deaf adolescents in the first 2 years of secondary school. Peer nominations and ratings of peer status and behavior were collected longitudinally with 74 deaf and 271 hearing adolescents from Grade 7 to Grade 8. The predictions of deaf adolescents' peer status in Grade 8 from Grade…
Descriptors: Deafness, Withdrawal (Psychology), Prosocial Behavior, Special Education
Behavioral, Personality, and Communicative Predictors of Acceptance and Popularity in Early Adolescence
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Wolters, Nina; Knoors, Harry; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
This study examined the behavioral, personality, and communicative predictors of acceptance and popularity in 608 early adolescents. Data were collected with sociometric methods and ratings in 30 sixth-grade classrooms. Hierarchical regressions were run to predict acceptance and popularity from prosocial, antisocial, and withdrawn behavior,…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Antisocial Behavior, Role, Extraversion Introversion
Childhood Psychopathology Predicts Adolescence-Onset Offending: A Longitudinal Study
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Buck, Nicole; Verhulst, Frank; van Marle, Hjalmar; van der Ende, Jan – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
Moffitt, Caspi, Harrington, and Milne (2002) found in a follow-up study that many of the supposedly adolescence-limited offenders had committed offenses past adolescence. This finding raises the question of whether adulthood starts later or whether there are two distinct delinquency types, adolescence limited and adolescence onset, each with its…
Descriptors: Children, Psychopathology, Prediction, Adolescents
Parent-Adolescent Conflicts, Conflict Resolution Types, and Adolescent Adjustment
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Branje, Susan J. T.; van Doorn, Muriel; van der Valk, Inge; Meeus, Wim – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
The current study examined the moderating role of conflict resolution on the association between parent-adolescent conflicts and adolescent problematic adjustment. Participants were 1313 Dutch early and middle adolescents who completed measures on conflict frequency, conflict resolution with parents, and internalizing and externalizing adjustment…
Descriptors: Conflict, Adolescents, Conflict Resolution, Parent Child Relationship
Heritability of Anxious-Depressive and Withdrawn Behavior: Age-Related Changes during Adolescence
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Lamb, Diane J.; Middeldorp, Christel M.; van Beijsterveldt, Catarina E. M.; Bartels, Meike; van der Aa, Niels; Polderman, Tinca J. C.; Boomsma, Dorret I. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To explain the differential course of anxiety and depression in individuals from childhood to adulthood by examining age-related changes in the genetic and environmental etiology of anxious and depressive symptoms. Method: A sample of 1470, 1839, and 2023 Dutch twins aged 12, 14, and 16 years reported on symptoms of anxious depression…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Nature Nurture Controversy, Risk, Children
Judgments of Aggressive, Withdrawn and Prosocial Behavior: Perceived Control, Anger, Pity and Sympathy in Young Dutch Children.
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Goossens, Frits A.; Bokhorst, Koos; Bruinsma, Cees; van Boxtel, Herman W. – Journal of School Psychology, 2002
Examines first- and second-grade children's judgments of aggressive, withdrawn, and prosocial behavior by means of fictional scenarios. Results reveal that aggressive children were perceived as more responsible for their behavior and elicited more feelings of anger, while withdrawn children were more likely to be chosen as a friend and elicited…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anger, Foreign Countries, Friendship