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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Peer Groups"”.
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Engineering social networking to combat digital addiction: the case of online peer groups.
… the clinical criteria of behavioural addiction. Peer groups approach is one of the strategies to combat addictive behaviours. It can provide a motivational and learning environment, and ambivalence reduction through sharing, counselling and mutual helping. Hosting peer groups online as a …
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Predicting sexual aggression among college men: the role of male peer groups and sexualized media
… influence of membership in male socialization peer groups, such as fraternities and athletic teams, and their impact on sexual aggression was examined. In addition, the present study aimed to add to the existing literature by specifically investigating the effects of modern forms of sexualized …
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Dominance and submission: how peer groups in South African secondary schools construct and utilise peer networks
… researched this problem from the perspective of peer networks. Adolescents were given questionnaires to complete about the manner in which they interacted in their peer groups. The researcher investigated to what extent adolescents cooperated, competed and confronted their peers, whether there …
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First-Year Students’ Experiences of Peer Groups and Peer Pressure in the Residences of a South African University
In general, peers have a tendency to influence others positively and negatively. In the main, transition from school to higher education causes some students to experience stress; to respond negatively to new conditions; and to engage in risk behaviour, which hinders epistemological access, …
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Responding to suicidal ideations in online peer support groups
This study examines if moderated online peer groups for those suffering from suicidal ideations differ than non-moderated online peer groups in three ways: the frequency of pro-suicide response, the frequency of non-civil and impolite response, and the frequency of therapeutic response strategies. …
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A comparison of two procedures for peer group assignment of institutions of higher education
… Hence, colleges and universities are placed into peer groups, comprised of institutions categorized on the basis of relevant criteria. Comparative analyses and the decisions resulting from the analyses are only as good as the peer groupings that provide the sources for comparison. Thus, the way in …
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Social network analysis in college choice.
… Social Network Analysis to examine the effect of peer groups on the college application process, taking Baylor University as a case study. Degree centrality and eigenvector centrality are two centrality measures used as interested independent variables. Findings reveal that peer groups have …
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Sound Change in Farmer City: A Sociolinguistic Study Based on Acoustic Data
… of 40 individuals from two opposing teenage peer groups and two older generations. A group of 7 speakers from three generations of a
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School choice, competition and ethnic segregation in Lancashire : evidence from structural models of two-sided matching
… for the ethnic characteristics of school peer groups, and socio- economic differences in parental regard for school test score performance, are important factors in contributing to uneven sorting in schools. The impact of sorting on market structure is also examined, both in relation to …
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Essays on the Economics of Electronic Commerce and Social Networks
… Social Network," studies the effects of peer-groups sizes on individuals' contributions to public goods - tweets - in a large-scale and influential online social network. We attribute the highly-skewed distribution of tweets, which is observed from the network, to an individual's …
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Peer-group Predictors of Homophobic Harassment Among Middle School Students
… it examines homophobic name-calling behavior and peer group contextual and socialization effects, as well as the influence of masculinity attitudes, general bullying perpetration, and victimization in the transmission of these behaviors. This study examined these research questions by utilizing …
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Undergraduate Members Perceptions of the Current Membership Intake Process: Among Selected Black Greek-Lettered Organizations
… is by participating in formal and informal peer groups (Chickering & Reisser, 1993). Of all peer groups, Greek-lettered organizations, when serving as an effective peer group, have the most impact on its members (Chickering & Reisser, 1993). As Greek-lettered organizations evolved, pledge …
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The Relationship Between Loneliness and Social Skills in Learning Disabled and Regular Education Populations
… rate themselves lonely tend to be rejected by peer groups. We also know that children who are rejected by peer groups lack social skills. Thus, one might speculate that there is a relationship between perceived loneliness and level of social skills. Given the evidence for the implications of …
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Re-imagining primary school children’s citizenship participation
… younger children ‘do’ citizenship within their peer groups at school? 2. How is children’s citizenship evident in the intersection between their peer group citizenship participation and the structures and practices of the primary school? My findings indicate children are not afforded regular …
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The Social Context of Prejudice: Peer Group Effects on Individuals' Homophobic and Racist Attitudes
… the contextual and socialization effects of peer groups on group members' own homophobic and racist attitudes were examined using multilevel modeling. In Study One, group-level compositional characteristics and social climates characterized as open to diversity, hierarchy-enhancing, and …
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An exploration of Key Stage 3 girls' peer group friendships outside the class-room and their influence within the class-room
… in the UK and internationally surrounding both peer groups and their activities during break-times and more generally group-work within the class-room, there is no research, as yet, that focuses specifically on the influence that peer groups' activity during break-times has on pedagogy. This is …
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The Influence of Neighborhood, Family, School, and Student Dimensions of Social Capital on Academic Achievement: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
… are exposed, including neighborhood, family, peer groups, and educational systems, in order to understand their role in assessing school accountability efforts. This study uses an integrated framework of social disorganization theory and social capital theory as the theoretical basis for …
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The Influence of Neighborhood, Family, School, and Student Dimensions of Social Capital on Academic Achievement: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
… are exposed, including neighborhood, family, peer groups, and educational systems, in order to understand their role in assessing school accountability efforts. This study uses an integrated framework of social disorganization theory and social capital theory as the theoretical basis for …
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The Ties That Bind: An Examination of Outgroup Relationships as a Deviant Behavior
… an essential element to co-existence between groups with a violent history is to provide situations in which out-group members are encouraged to form new relationships. Although the individual may have positive feelings toward out-group members at the conclusion of the program, he or she must …
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