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Temperament and Social Problem Solving Competence in Preschool: Influences on Academic Skills in Early Elementary School
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Walker, Olga L.; Henderson, Heather A. – Social Development, 2012
The goals of the current study were to examine whether children's social problem solving (SPS) skills are a mechanism through which temperament influences later academic achievement and whether sex moderates these associations. The participants included 1117 children enrolled in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Kindergarten, Shyness, Personality
Peer Nominations of Emotional Expressivity among Urban Children: Social and Psychological Correlates
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Perry-Parrish, Carisa; Waasdorp, Tracy E.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – Social Development, 2012
The current study examined associations between peer nominations of children's expression of negative emotions and psychological, social, and behavioral correlates in a sample of 523 first graders. Children (85 percent African-American) completed a peer nomination measure for expressing negative emotions. In addition, three other domains of…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Urban Areas, Interpersonal Competence, Correlation
Gender-Linked Risks for Peer Physical and Relational Victimization in the Context of School-Level Poverty in First Grade
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Dhami, Mandeep K.; Hoglund, Wendy L.; Leadbeater, Bonnie J.; Boone, Erin M. – Social Development, 2005
In a short-term longitudinal study of 432 first-grade children, we examined whether gender interacted with contextual differences (school-level poverty) and individual differences at school entry (behavioral problems, emotional problems, and social competence) to predict changes in peer physical and relational victimization and receipt of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Individual Differences, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence
Teacher Reports of Children's Friendships and Social Groups: Agreement with Peer Reports and Implications for Studying Peer Similarity
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Gest, Scott D. – Social Development, 2006
Teacher-peer agreement about children's friendships and social group affiliations was examined in a sample of 219 children in grades 1, 3, and 5. Peer reports were used to identify reciprocated friendships and informal social groups. Teachers listed each child's closest friends and described the informal social groups existing in their classrooms.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Friendship, Peer Groups, Peer Relationship
The Entry Behavior of Aggressive/Rejected Children: The Contributions of Status and Temperament
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Wilson, Beverly J. – Social Development, 2006
This study investigated the entry behavior and temperamental characteristics of aggressive/rejected and nonaggressive/popular kindergarten and first-grade children. An analog entry situation was used to assess children's entry skills. Aggressive/rejected children had more difficulty than nonaggressive/popular children delivering their entry bids…
Descriptors: Aggression, Rejection (Psychology), Peer Acceptance, Behavior Problems
Peer Victimization: The Role of Emotions in Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping
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Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky – Social Development, 2004
Mediator models were examined in which children's emotional reactions to peer aggression were hypothesized to mediate their selection of coping strategies and subsequent peer victimization and internalizing problems. Self-report data were collected from 145 ethnically diverse kindergarten through fifth grade children (66 females and 79 males) who…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Coping, Conflict Resolution, Grade 5