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How do business leaders learn in peer-group coaching?
Peer coaching has been established as a useful tool in educational learning. Peer-group coaching practice among business leaders is historically built on peer coaching practice and has received little academic attention so far. This study aims to understand the processes within peer-group coaching …
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The use of peer-group slang in young adult fiction /
… communication and speech we can identify with a group and its speech. Since humans are social animals, we enjoy informal language, such as slang, because of its casual, vivid, racy, irreverent, and playful elements that can intertwine. We can say that slang rebels against the standard and adds …
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Student Peer-Group Focusing in Psychology Training: A Phenomemological Study
… investigation of the influence of peer group Focusing practice (Gendlin, 1981) on doctoral psychology students' senses of their developing clinical expertise. Focusing, a therapeutic bodily awareness and symbolization practice, was proposed as a method that would support the …
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The Delinquent Peer Group: Social Identity and Self-categorization Perspectives
… comparison processes in school, the role of the peer group in delinquency and the variable nature of the delinquent social identity. ¶ ...
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The Delinquent Peer Group: Social Identity and Self-categorization Perspectives
… comparison processes in school, the role of the peer group in delinquency and the variable nature of the delinquent social identity. ¶ ...
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Influence of Peer Group Norms on Aggression in Early Adolescence
… builds on previous research that has established group influences on individual aggressive behavior. It is hypothesized that group norms regarding aggression influence individual aggression, and that this influence is mediated by social status. Participants were 647 Chilean 5th and 6th graders. …
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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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Peer-to-Peer Group Communication for City-Scale Mesh Networks
The Internet has become extremely centralized. The benefits of centralization have thus far outweighed the drawbacks, but users today are much more concerned about privacy, and reachability is increasingly threatened by natural disasters, political repression, cyberattacks, and human error. …
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Peer Group Perception of Mentally Superior Children in Grades One Throughfour
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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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The Relationship of Young Children's Peer Group Status to Their Use of Communication Strategies
… and their high or low status within the peer group.
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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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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 …
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Utilizing an Identity-Based Art and Peer Group with At-Risk Youth: Supporting Identity Processes
… developing and instituting identity based art groups within multiple school settings, to reach a diverse group of adolescents. It reviews a program carried out in an urban alternative school setting with at-risk youth, with an aim to answer the question, “What was the experience of an …
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The Study of the Influence of the Family, Peer Group, and the Community on Adolescent Smoking
… the influence exerted by the family, the peer group, and the community, on adolescent smoking. The study will attempt to prove that (1) the environment with the greatest discontinuity, as reflected in the variation of standards and attitudes toward adult and adolescent smoking, will be the …
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An Evaluation of the Getz - Roanoke County School Division's School Counselor Peer Group Clinical Supervision Program
… in this area. Strengths of G-PGCS were increased peer support and self-awareness, learning new counseling techniques and skills, G-PGCS supervision feedback, and a greater sense of professionalism. In addition, administrative support, training, and structure were cited as strengths. The SDS also …
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The Feasibility of Peer Group and Text Message-Based Weight Loss and Management Intervention for African American Women
… overweight or obese, the highest of all ethnic groups. For many decades, healthcare providers and researchers have developed weight-loss interventions to help people achieve weight loss and management. Unfortunately, it is typical for people to lose weight quickly during the intervention period …
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Assessing and changing the student teacher and his learning environment with student ratings and peer group counseling sessions
… population into a control and experimental groups. The treatment process administered to the experimental group contained two “elements. The first element was a forced choice rating scale called the Student Teacher Diagnostic Questionnaire. This evaluation form completed by the students …
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