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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Peer nominations"”.
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Children’s Positive Peer Relationships and their Bullying Behaviors: A Latent Profile Analysis
… for classifying children based on positive peer nominations and contribute to the field’s understanding of high-status bullies who maintain social resources despite bulling behaviors (e.g., van der Ploeg et al., 2020). Both reciprocated and one-sided (i.e., received and sent) positive peer …
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Influence of Peer Group Norms on Aggression in Early Adolescence
… Children were followed over a one-year period. Peer nominations on aggression, social preference and peer perceived popularity were collected. Social networks were derived through Social Cognitive Mapping. Two important features were novel in this study. Following previous findings on group …
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Correlates of learning disabled students' social acceptance in mainstream classrooms
… disabled (LD) students among their non-LD peers and explored how their social acceptance related to personal attributes, behavioral characteristics, and social information processing. Subjects were 22 white, third through fifth grade LD students and 347 of their non-LD classmates. Results …
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Interactions Among Italian Preschool-Age Children: Aggression, Victimization, and Sociometric Status
… and relational victimization as measured by peer nominations were analyzed. Structural equation modeling using Mplus was used to test the model, and SPSS 15 was used to run analyses of variance (ANOVAs) to examine the interaction between sociometric status and preschoolers' behaviors toward …
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Children's Relationships With Peers and Teachers: Assessment, Linkages Between Relationship Systems, and Associations With School Adjustment
… issues relevant to children's teacher-child and peer relationships and how these relationships were associated with school adjustment. First, the psychometric properties of a peer nominations and ratings measure of the teacher-child relationship (PNR-TC; Birch, 1997) were evaluated, and the …
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Social status in the early adolescent peer system in the United States and China
… to play an important role in socializing their peers during adolescence. Unfortunately, there has been little empirical attention to this issue, particularly outside the West. My dissertation examined the characteristics that contribute to social status in the United States and Mainland China …
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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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From childhood to parenthood : continuity of risk over time and contextual factors perpetuating the inter-generational transfer of risk
… of aggression and social withdrawal, based on peer nominations. More than 20 years later, original participants, now parents, were evaluated. The focus of Study 1 was on the pathways to parenting and outcomes for a second generation in a group of women with young children ( n = 112). Study 2 …
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Assortative mating among men and women with histories of aggressive, withdrawn, and aggressive-withdrawn behaviour
… and/or withdrawn childhood behaviour. Using peer nominations, 1,770 boys and girls were originally identified at ages 7, 10, and 13 as being highly aggressive, withdrawn, both aggressive and withdrawn, or non-deviant (contrast group). At the time of the present study, the original …
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The use of self-reports and peer reports as measures of self-esteem in middle school students
… for others to identify. Sociometrics, or peer reports, provide an alternative to self-report measures of self-esteem. Some studies have shown academic achievement, athletic ability, and socioeconomic status to correlate with sociometric status. Sociometric measures allow teachers to gather …
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The association between peer relations, eating behaviors, and body esteem in adolescent girls
… designed to investigate the association between peer relations, eating behaviors, and body esteem in a sample of 876 adolescent girls ( M age = 14 years). Participants completed questionnaires assessing peer pressure about weight and appearance (i.e., social reinforcement & peer modeling), body …
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A nomination approach to the study of wisdom in old age
… who had been nominated for their wisdom by their peers. The nominators and 22 participants who nominated themselves as wise functioned as comparison groups. Measures of personality, intelligence, emotional awareness, paradigm beliefs, control beliefs, coping style, and life satisfaction were …
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Examining the Relationship Between Students' Life Satisfaction and School-Based Social and Behavioral Success
… respect to social success within the classroom, peer rejection, and externalizing behavior problems. The Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS), which yields an overall subjective life satisfaction score in addition to five domain-specific satisfaction scores (family, …
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Peer Sexual Harassment in Middle School: Classroom and Individual Factors
… predominantly on describing the prevalence of peer sexual harassment (PSH) among adolescents and understanding the associated outcomes. More recently, researchers have begun to examine individual and contextual risk factors for victimization. Using the problem behavior hypothesis, opportunity …
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Social media engagement among early adolescents: Motivational and adjustment correlates
… positive (prosocial support) and negative (peer victimization, internalizing problems) adjustment associated with social media engagement. Participants were 426 public school students (54.2% female, 73.6% Caucasian, mean age = 12.91, SD = .92) from sixth (N = 152), seventh (N = 142), and …
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PEER GROUP SOCIALIZATION OF AGGRESSION IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: SOCIAL STATUS, GROUP CHARACTERISTICS, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
In previous research on the importance of a peer group in shaping and supporting group members' antisocial behavior (e.g., aggression), researchers have focused on the influence of group norms on individuals' behavior. Two potential aspects of variability have been neglected: peers in a group would …