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Patterns of Success: First-Year Student Success in Multiple Domains
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van der Zanden, Petrie J. A. C.; Denessen, Eddie; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Meijer, Paulien C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The goal of this study was to examine differences in university success between first-year students by analyzing three domains simultaneously: students' academic achievement, critical thinking disposition, and social-emotional adjustment to university life. Participants were 307 students who completed an online questionnaire. Latent class cluster…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking, Social Adjustment
Predicting Acceptance and Popularity in Early Adolescence as a Function of Hearing Status, Gender, and Educational Setting
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Wolters, Nina; Knoors, Harry E. T.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study examined associations of communicative skills, social behavior, and personality with acceptance and popularity as a function of hearing status, gender, and educational setting. Participants were 87 deaf and 672 hearing early adolescents of 52 6th grade classrooms in mainstream and special education. Acceptance varied as a function of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Females, Creative Activities
Predicting Changes in Adjustment Using Repeated Measures of Sociometric Status
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Mayeux, Lara; Bellmore, Amy D.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2007
The authors' goals in the study were to investigate the possible gains made by including multiple assessments of status in the prediction of change in psychosocial adjustment and to compare the effectiveness of continuous and categorical measures of peer status in predicting adjustment. The authors obtained continuous and categorical measures of…
Descriptors: Sociometric Techniques, Social Adjustment, Grade 5, Grade 4
Heterogeneity among Peer-Rejected Boys across Middle Childhood: Developmental Pathways of Social Behavior.
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Haselager, Gerbert J. T.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Van Lieshout, Cornelius F. M.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne A.; Hartup, Willard W. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
This longitudinal study identified subgroups of rejected boys with different developmental pathways of aggression and prosocial behavior during middle childhood. Four subgroups were identified associated with different patterns of sociometric acceptance and rejection over time and with social emotional adjustment in the last measurement wave.…
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Development, Individual Differences
Children's Problems Caused by Consistent Rejection in Early Elementary School.
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; And Others – 1992
A study was conducted to test the effects of early consistent rejection by peers in early elementary school on children's social and emotional adjustment at the end of elementary school. The study used data from a longitudinal study conducted in the Netherlands between 1986 and 1991. In 1986, a total of 231 kindergarten and first-grade boys from…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Antisocial Behavior, Children, Depression (Psychology)
Early Peer Interaction as a Predictor of Later Social Adjustment: Results from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study.
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; And Others – 1997
This study tested the predictive links between children's interactions with peers in early elementary school and their social and emotional adjustment at the end of elementary school. A sample of 231 boys starting kindergarten and first grade were observed during this longitudinal study, on three separate occasions: kindergarten and first grade,…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Emotional Adjustment, Interpersonal Competence