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Showing 1 to 20 of 3052 for “"Peers"”.
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Positive Peers: Exploring How and Why to Incorporate Peers Into HIV Prevention Services
… program staff (administrators, supervisors, and peers) were conducted using a mixed methods approach to answer two research questions: 1) To what extent do peer-based models of HIV service delivery adhere to an established set of program characteristics of Prevention with Positives interventions? …
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University students' receptivity to peers with disabilities
… investigates university students' receptivity to peers with disabilities at two universities in Perth, Western Australia (Edith Cowan University and the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle), and two universities in India (The University of Kolkata (previously Calcutta) and the University of …
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Parents, Peers, and Developmental Trajectories toward Crime.
<p>Across time, the influence of parents and peers appears to change. Early in life, parents have a stronger influence on the development of youth than do their peers. This, however, will change as an individual ages. Using longitudinal data from the Marion County (Oregon) Youth Survey (1964-1979), …
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Exploiting Resource Diversity in Networks of Peers
Some of our work is control-theoretic in nature and studies the effects of delays in obtaining information about the available resources. Some work is game-theoretic and studies the economic impact of choice in terms of revenue to the service providers and payoffs to the users. Other work uses …
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Emotion recognition in youth chronically victimized by their peers
… repeatedly, or chronically, victimized by their peers. Literature suggests two contrasting explanations for emotion processing in victimized youth: 1) children who are targeted by peer bullying have emotion recognition deficits, and 2) youth who are recurrently victimized by parents show …
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Cooperating As Peers: Labor Justice Between Distributive and Relational Equality
… from contributing to social cooperation as peers, not because they do not meet some inherent meaning of work or fail to fulfill some predefined idea of human nature (pluralism). This way, this conception of labor justice avoids the paternalistic consequences and moral solipsism of some …
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Behaviour with peers and perceptions of self: correlates of attachment
… with mother and subsequent behaviour with peers and perceptions of self in young children. The sample consisted of 39 five year-old children (22 girls, 17 boys). Attachment classifications had been detelmined when the children were 4 1/2 years old, as part of a longitudinal study, using …
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Moral identity, youth engagement, and discussions with parents and peers /
The strength of adolescents' moral identity was examined in relation to their sense of social responsibility, frequency of community engagement, and interactions with parents and friends. Participants were 191 applicants to national youth conferences, ranging in age from 14-19, who completed a …
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Children’s Perspectives on the Social Exclusion of Peers with Behavioural Difficulties
… behaviours are more likely than their peers to experience social exclusion. To better examine this topic, the perspectives of peers were investigated. Thirty-six participants were interviewed from a school in Southwestern Ontario. Participants were asked why they believe children with …
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THREE ESSAYS ON THE INFLUENCE OF PEERS AND PRIMARY CARE ENGAGEMENT
… Estimators that measure the aggregate effect of peers' outcomes are more robust to measurement error and can be unbiased even when fifty percent of peer interactions are unobserved. Estimators that measure the average effect of peers'’ outcomes are more susceptible to measurement error and suffer …
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Stereotypes among psychology graduate students toward peers who are pregnant/mothers
… among psychology graduate students toward peers who are pregnant and/or are mothers. It was hypothesized that negative stereotypes toward peers who are mothers and/or are pregnant would be found within psychology graduate programs. Additionally, it was predicted that gender differences …
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Papist Peers and Politics: the English Roman Catholic Nobility, 1688-1719
<p>Historians have traditionally viewed the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as periods of decline for the European nobility and the English Roman Catholic community. Scholars over the last thirty-five years, however, have successfully called into question these long held assumptions by showing …
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School Context, Peers and the Educational Achievement of Girls and Boys
Today, boys dominate among high school dropouts, special education students, and literally any failed or special needs category throughout adolescence pinpointing boys as the troublemaker in modern educational systems. The notorious under-performance of boys in school and their tendency to disrupt …
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Adolescent mothers' relationships with their mothers and peers: A developmental perspective
… mothers' relationships with their mothers and peers. Both supportive and problematic aspects of these relationships were explored. First, differences between the two groups of adolescent mothers in their receipt of maternal and peer support and experience of maternal and peer problems were …
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The contribution of peers to children's adaptation to becoming a sibling
The birth of a second child is a critical life transition for firstborn children and their families. Children vary in their adaptation to this transition, and the processes that mediate this are poorly understood. The purpose of this research was to describe the contribution of the peer …
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Peer Victimization and Depression: Role of Peers and Parent-Child Relationship
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationships between physical and emotional peer victimization, parental and peer support and depressive symptoms. The moderating role of parental and peer support and gender differences in such moderation were the focus of the study in …
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A CASE STUDY OF PEER ASSESSMENT IN A MOOC-BASED COMPOSITION COURSE: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS, PEERS’ GRADING SCORES VERSUS INSTRUCTORS’ GRADING SCORES, AND PEERS’ COMMENTARY VERSUS INSTRUCTORS’ COMMENTARY
… papers and as students being evaluated by their peers. However, many student participants also expressed negative feelings about certain aspects of peer assessment, for example peers’ lack of qualifications, peers’ negative and critical comments, and unfairness of peer grading. Statistical …
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Teachers and peers attitudes towards the integration of pupils with Down's Syndrome.
… and perceptual patternings with disabled peers revealed the ways that "handicapped" identities are being socially created. The value conflicts and ethical dilemmas in which both teachers and pupils are becoming enmeshed as well as the structural conditions within which integration is …
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