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Markstrom, Ann-Marie – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2010
This article highlights the parent-teacher conferences in the Swedish preschool and the talk about children's inappropriate and undesirable behaviour in a preschool setting. The focus of the article concerns how teachers talk about children's resistance to the social order in preschool and especially how children show resistance to teachers. The…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Conferences, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
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Marcus, David K.; Fulton, Jessica J.; Clarke, Erin J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
This meta-analysis examined the association between conduct problems and lead exposure. Nineteen studies on 8,561 children and adolescents were included. The average "r" across all 19 studies was 0.19 (p less than 0.001), which is considered a medium effect size. Studies that assessed lead exposure using hair element analysis yielded…
Descriptors: Poisoning, Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Children
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McNamara, John K.; Willoughby, Teena – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
Risk taking may be regarded as a normative behavior in adolescence. Risk-taking behaviors may include alcohol, smoking, drug use, delinquency, and acts of aggression. Many studies have explored the relationship between adolescents and risk-taking behavior; however, only a few studies have examined this link in adolescents with learning…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Smoking, Learning Disabilities, Drug Use
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Kennealy, Patrick J.; Skeem, Jennifer L.; Walters, Glenn D.; Camp, Jacqueline – Psychological Assessment, 2010
The utility of psychopathy measures in predicting violence is largely explained by their assessment of social deviance (e.g., antisocial behavior; disinhibition). A key question is whether social deviance "interacts" with the core interpersonal-affective traits of psychopathy to predict violence. Do core psychopathic traits multiply the (already…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Violence, Measures (Individuals), Interaction
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Woglom, Lauren; Pennington, Kim – Social Education, 2010
While bullying is often accepted as an integral aspect of "growing up," it can have detrimental and lasting effects on its victims. Bullying can occur in a variety of forms, including direct teasing and threatening, the use of physical violence, and in the spreading of malicious gossip and rumors. With the proliferation of new technology, bullying…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Victims of Crime, Student Behavior
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Miller, Berkeley; Sujitparapitaya, Sutee – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Numerous studies have found that minority students do experience insensitive if not discriminatory behavior on college campuses, and students who experience such behavior report lower levels of social integration and institutional commitment. However, there are at least two limitations to much of the campus climate literature. First, virtually all…
Descriptors: College Environment, Social Discrimination, Minority Groups, College Students
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Eldar, Eitan; Talmor, Rachel; Wolf-Zukerman, Tali – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
This study examined the inclusion of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in regular classes and analysed the factors related to its success and failure. Thirty-seven inclusion coordinators participated in the study and conveyed their view about their own experience. The qualitative methodology used in this study was comprised of regular…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming
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Dennis, Tracy A.; Buss, Kristin A.; Hastings, Paul D.; Bell, Martha Ann; Diaz, Anjolii; Adam, Emma K.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Schmidt, Louis A.; Feldman, Ruth; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Rigterink, Tami; Strang, Nicole M.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Siegle, Greg J.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Kirwan, Michael; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Gunnar, Megan R.; Obradovic, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Gates, Kathleen M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2012
In the past decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research examining the development of emotion from a physiological perspective. However, this widespread use of physiological measures to study emotional development coexists with relatively few guiding principles, thus reducing opportunities to move the field forward in innovative ways. The…
Descriptors: Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Development, Measurement
Stump, Linda J.; Zdziarski, Eugene L. – Campus Law Enforcement Journal, 2008
As major events define generations and tragedies define and refine protocol response to significant incidents, a sense of comfort and confidence is attained as the authors train individually and organizationally to respond to extreme events, and yet those who have experienced them know that no plan goes as it should. There are, however, steps or…
Descriptors: School Security, Identification, Antisocial Behavior, Intervention
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Chiu, Su-Fen; Peng, Jei-Chen – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This study investigated the main effects and the interaction effects of psychological contract breach and hostile attributional style on employee deviance (i.e., interpersonal deviance and organizational deviance). Data were collected from 233 employees and their supervisors in eight electronic companies in Taiwan. Results demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Interaction, Foreign Countries, Attribution Theory, Employees
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Ritakallio, Minna; Koivisto, Anna-Maija; von der Pahlen, Bettina; Pelkonen, Mirjami; Marttunen, Mauri; Kaltiala-Heino, Riittakerttu – Journal of Adolescence, 2008
The study investigated continuity, comorbidity and longitudinal associations between depression Beck depression inventory (RBDI) and antisocial behaviour Youth self-report (YSR) in middle adolescence. Data were used from a community sample of 2070 adolescents who participated in a 2-year prospective follow-up study. The results indicate that both…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Antisocial Behavior, Adolescents, Followup Studies
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Horan, Sean M.; Myers, Scott A. – Communication Education, 2009
A growing body of research indicates that classroom justice concerns are important to students. When students perceive their instructors are not concerned about justice, they report a host of negative outcomes. Due to the importance of justice assigned to students, the present study sought to understand how instructors view justice. Results…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Justice, Power Structure
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Osipian, Ararat L. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2009
Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the services most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia, including bribery, extortion, embezzlement, nepotism, fraud, cheating, and plagiarism, is reflected in the region's media and addressed in a few scholarly works. This article considers corruption in higher education as a product of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Government School Relationship, Deception, Antisocial Behavior
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Dowell, Elizabeth B.; Burgess, Ann W.; Cavanaugh, Deborah J. – Journal of School Health, 2009
Background: Internet safety is a growing public concern especially among adults and youth who live in an "instant messaging" world of technological communication. To better understand how early adolescents are using the Internet, a study was undertaken to more clearly identify the online general use, safety knowledge, and risk behaviors…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Internet, Risk, Antisocial Behavior
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Gallagher-Duffy, Joanne; MacKay, Sherri; Duffy, Jim; Sullivan-Thomas, Meara; Peterson-Badali, Michele – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
Fire interest is a risk factor for firesetting. This study tested whether a fire-specific emotional Stroop task can effectively measure an information-processing bias for fire-related stimuli. Clinic-referred and nonreferred adolescents (aged 13-16 years) completed a pictorial "Fire Stroop," as well as a self-report fire interest questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Color, At Risk Persons, Interests
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