Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 3 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 4 |
Descriptor
| Goal Orientation | 4 |
| Middle School Students | 4 |
| Peer Acceptance | 4 |
| Aggression | 3 |
| Early Adolescents | 3 |
| Social Status | 3 |
| Student Adjustment | 3 |
| Student Attitudes | 3 |
| Anxiety | 2 |
| Correlation | 2 |
| Grade 6 | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Developmental Psychology | 1 |
| Grantee Submission | 1 |
| Journal of Early Adolescence | 1 |
| Social Psychology of… | 1 |
Author
| Dawes, Molly | 4 |
| Xie, Hongling | 2 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 3 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
Education Level
| Middle Schools | 4 |
| Junior High Schools | 3 |
| Secondary Education | 3 |
| Elementary Education | 2 |
| Grade 6 | 2 |
| Intermediate Grades | 2 |
| Grade 5 | 1 |
| Grade 7 | 1 |
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkDawes, Molly – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
What are the common types of social goals endorsed by early adolescents and how are they related to their school adjustment? This article discusses the importance of assessing students' social goals during the early adolescent developmental period when peers become increasingly important and youth experience tremendous changes to the school…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Download full textDawes, Molly – Grantee Submission, 2017
What are the common types of social goals endorsed by early adolescents and how are they related to their school adjustment? This article discusses the importance of assessing students' social goals during the early adolescent developmental period when peers become increasingly important and youth experience tremendous changes to the school…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Dawes, Molly; Xie, Hongling – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
The trajectory of early adolescents' popularity goal during the transition to middle school was examined in a diverse sample of 401 students. Popularity goal was assessed at five time points from the spring semester of fifth grade through the spring semester of seventh grade with the transition to middle school occurring between the fifth and…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Goal Orientation, Gender Differences, Ethnic Groups
Dawes, Molly; Xie, Hongling – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The effect of popularity goal on the use of 3 popularity-related behaviors and later popularity status was examined in a diverse sample of 314 6th-grade students (176 girls and 138 boys) in both fall (Time 1) and spring (Time 2) semesters. Popularity goal and the use of popularity-driven behaviors (e.g., "I change the way I dress in order to…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Peer Acceptance, Goal Orientation, Role
