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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"peer rejection"”.
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Women's recollections of childhood peer rejection in school
Most of the research literature on peer rejection either blames the victim or concentrates on finding patterns in the process of rejection. The perspectives of the children being rejected have been given surprisingly little attention, while the perspectives of adults thinking back on their …
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Children's Coping with Peer Rejection Experiences: The Regulating Role of Emotion
… as predictors of children's coping responses to peer rejection experiences. This study also explored how children's emotional experience and coping behaviors were related to gender, peer socialization (i.e., receiving prosocial acts by peers and previous victimization experiences), and indices of …
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Social life in middle school: Peer rejection, behavioral style, and loneliness
… study was designed to learn whether subgroups of peer-rejected middle school students could be identified, corresponding to internalizing and externalizing styles, and whether these groups differed not only in behavior, but in loneliness and social concerns. Sociometric nominations, peer …
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Examining the Association Between Peer Rejection, Loneliness, and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
Although positive peer relations play a significant role in children's development, not all children are accepted by peers. Peer rejection can have a tremendous impact on children's lives and future adjustment. This study took a closer look at the experience of loneliness in children and …
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Peer Rejection and Children's School Adjustment: A Structural Model of the Mediating Processes of Negative Peer Treatment and Classroom Participation
… a structural model representing the effects of peer rejection on children's school adjustment, via the mediating processes of negative peer treatment and classroom participation. Using data collected from a sample of 378 fourth- and fifth-grade children, a structural model of these mediating …
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The Complexities of Attachment, Peer Rejection and Gender Within a Middle School Dynamic - a Glimpse at Early Adolescents and Their Significant Relationships
… two phase explanatory study of attachment, peer rejection and gender in a non-clinical middle school population. The purpose of the study was to illustrate the relationship between these variables with the assumption that there would be differences in attachment style between rejected and …
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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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social anxiety and social reasoning in peer-rejected children
Children who experience peer rejection in childhood are at an increased risk for a number of difficulties in later life including juvenile delinquency, school dropout, academic problems, school truancy, and mental health problems (Coie & Dodge, 1990; Hoza et al., 1995; Kuppersmidt, Parker, & Asher, …
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Effect of parenting, emotional intelligence, hostile attributional bias, and peer status on problem behavior
… behave aggressively, and are rejected by peers, reaffirming their hostile view and increasing the likelihood of aggression.</p><p>Social rejection has also been found to be associated with internalizing behavior, with rejected boys being higher internalizers than rejected girls. Because …
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Developmental outcomes in a nationally representative sample of sexually abused boys: The moderating influence of family and peer context
… third aim was to examine the moderating role of peer context, as measured by social skills and peer rejection, across each of these outcomes. Key findings indicated that cumulative family risk confers greater risk for internalizing problems, externalizing problems, posttraumatic stress and …
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The effects of ADHD child and parenting groups
… an increase in academic demands, family and peer rejection; This study used a one-group pretest-posttest design that was implemented in four separate ADHD parent and child groups. There were 16 child participants and 9 parent participants. Three of the five hypotheses were accepted. The …
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Anxious Solitude and Peer Exclusion: Evidence for a Diathesis-Stress Model of Internalizing Trajectories in Childhood
… (anxious solitude) and interpersonal adversity (peer exclusion) predict depressive symptoms in children over time. Children's (N = 388; 50% female) social behavior, peer relations, and emotional adjustment were assessed by teacher-report and rejection was assessed by peer-report at school entry …
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Relational and physical aggression in late childhood : links to social adjustment in group and dyadic relations
… aggressive girls would be at heightened risk for peer rejection; (f) aggressive children would have mutual friendships in spite of their lack of popularity; (g) relationally and physically aggressive children would have similarly aggressive friends; and (h) RA and PA would predict lower-quality …
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The Impact of Friendships and Mutual Antipathies on Children's Social Behavior and Social Cognition
… antipathy relationships had effects on both peer-nominated social behaviors and social cognition, even when statistically controlling for the effect of peer rejection.
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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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An investigation of the relationship between stress and body image in Australian youth
… and body dissatisfaction, specifically in the peer domain, in both females and males. Longitudinal self-report data supported a predictive relationship between adolescent stress and body dissatisfaction, and found that both self-esteem and body importance mediate this link proximally and over …
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An investigation of the relationship between stress and body image in Australian youth
… and body dissatisfaction, specifically in the peer domain, in both females and males. Longitudinal self-report data supported a predictive relationship between adolescent stress and body dissatisfaction, and found that both self-esteem and body importance mediate this link proximally and over …
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Perfectionism in early childhood : an investigation of its dimensions, profiles, predictors and outcomes /
… design, multiple sources of data (child, parent, peer and teacher) and a combination of variable and person-centered analyses, this study looked at the risk and protective factors within young children (e.g. acceptance, competence and control-related beliefs) and the social environment that impact …
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Gender Differences in Child, Parent, and Teacher Perception of Social Functioning Among Children With ADHD
… problems, with girls more likely to encounter peer rejection than boys. The present study investigated gender differences in child, parent, and teacher perceptions of social functioning among ADHD and control children. Participants included 119 children (ages 6-11) and their parents. Sixty-one …
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Piloting the Use of Acceptance, Cognitive Defusion, and Values, in Reducing Experiential Avoidance and its Consequences Among Youth Rejected by Peers
Peer rejection (PR) can be damaging to cognitive and emotional well being and lead to risky behavioral consequences (e.g., violence, increased peer pressure susceptibility), particularly for adolescents (Sebastian et al., 2010; Williams, 2007). Interventions designed to minimize the impact of and …
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