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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Peer Acceptance"”.
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Peer Acceptance in the Lunchroom and Children’s Internalizing Symptoms
… Although past research has linked children’s peer acceptance to their level of internalizing symptoms, few studies have examined peer acceptance within the lunchroom context. This study extends that work by examining associations between lunchroom peer acceptance (assessed via self- and …
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The Role of Physical Appearance in the Peer Acceptance of Emerging Adults Undergoing Chemotherapy
Peer acceptance has been shown to influence the overall social development of an individual and physical appearance has been shown to be heavily influential in the overall peer acceptance of an individual. This study considered how appearing as if undergoing treatment for cancer impacted peer …
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The effects of social skills training to improve peer acceptance for students with disabilities
… to facilitate the social competence and peer acceptance of students with multiple disabilities mainstreamed for non-academic subjects. Ten 3rd and 5th grade students with disabilities and 60 non-disabled 3rd graders participated in this study. The target students spent more than 65% of …
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Contextual Influences on Peer Acceptance and the Social Behavior of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
… with IDs and behavioral correlates of peer acceptance in participants' group home and sheltered workshop. Participants include 123 individuals with IDs who live and work in the same private residential facility. Participants completed sociometric interviews; symptom focused self-report …
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Depression, Self-Esteem and Perceived Peer Acceptance Reported By Children Enrolled in a Gifted Program
… between depression, self-esteem, and perceived peer acceptance for children in a regular, public school setting and children enrolled in two public school programs for the gifted. The group of participants enrolled in a full-time gifted program was too small to be included in statistical …
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The relationship of adolescent perceptions of peer acceptance and motivation to participate in the local congregation
… exists between an adolescent's perceptions of peer acceptance and their desire to be active within their local congregation in the churches where they are members. Data was based on open-ended interviews with 20 teenagers in the age range of 13 to 18 who are members of Southern Baptist churches …
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Parent Behaviors as Predictors of Peer Acceptance in Children With and Without Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… that parents indirectly influence children's peer functioning through aspects of the parent-child relationship. One specific group of children that exhibit significant problems with peers and in interactions with parents is children diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder …
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The Social Competence of Preschool Children's Response to Conflict and Peer Acceptance in a Mainstreamed Classroom
… from classroom interaction with nonhandicapped peers has not been supported by the research showing that interaction between handicapped and nonhandicapped children occurs less frequently than expected by chance. However, it is possible to increase peer interaction by using social skills …
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Cognitive predictors of aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance across early childhood: the role of cool and hot executive function and theory of mind
… including aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance. However, understanding of these relations is limited by the focus of research on broad behaviour categories and on cool-cognitive EF skills, to the neglect of hot-affective EF, and the lack of longitudinal studies. This research …
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Testing the Impact of Social Acceptance on Outcomes: Comparing Two Forms of an Intervention for Aggressive Youth
… format (ICP) instead of group format (GCP). Peer acceptance, as well as concordance between one's actual and perceived acceptance, may impact outcomes depending on intervention format. Further, functional subtypes of aggression (i.e., reactive, proactive) have differential relationships with …
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Reasons for living across the lifespan
… moral objections, survival and coping skills, peer acceptance, survival and coping beliefs, fear of suicide, and future optimism than did middle-aged adults and more importance on future optimism, survival and coping beliefs, peer acceptance, and future optimism than older adults. Older adults …
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The Peer Status of Gifted Children Across Educational Settings
<p>Although previous studies have examined the peer status of gifted students in upper elementary grades, very little is known about the social status and peer acceptance of gifted children in the lower elementary grades (k-3). In the present study, the researcher compared the peer status of …
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Emotion Knowledge and Relational Aggression in Preschoolers
… development. Children learn how to navigate peer relationships and understand the source of others' emotions, one of the most important tasks of this developmental period. Deficits in emotion knowledge have been linked with increased aggressive behaviors and poor peer acceptance. This study's …
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Comparison of the relationship of academic success to self-concept, social acceptance and perceived social acceptance for hearing, hard of hearing and deaf adolescents in a mainstream setting.
… in mainstream settings: self-concept, social acceptance, and perceived social acceptance. Twenty-five hearing, five deaf, and five hard of hearing junior high school students participated in this study. Students completed three measures: Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale, Form A (Adapted), Peer …
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You Gotta Have Friends: An Analysis of Social Relations in Preschool Children With Speech and Language Impairment
This study explored various dimensions of peer relations in a total of 67 children in one of three groups: typically developing children, children with language impairment, and children with speech and language impairments. Specifically, this study investigated peer acceptance, friendship quantity, …
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Parent-child interactions with ADHD children: Parental empathy as a predictor of child adjustment.
… ADHD children. Parental empathy did not predict peer acceptance or compliance for these children. Children of high empathy parents scored higher on peer acceptance and lower on child aggression measures than children of low empathy parents. Scores on self-esteem and compliance, however, did not …
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The impact of social information processing on peer relations in pediatric traumatic brain injury
… between social information-processing (SIP), peer acceptance, and friendship. However, no studies to date have documented the relationship between these constructs in a sample of children with TBI. Participants included 8 to 13 year old children, 25 with severe TBI, 57 with complicated …
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Peer Relations in the Ungraded Primary: An Examination of Friendship and Its Benefits
Mixed-age peer contexts have been considered important in the peer relations literature, but there has been relatively little research on children's peer relations in these settings. Ungraded primary programs mandated by recent school reform efforts in Kentucky provide a unique opportunity to study …
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