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Okado, Yuko; Haskett, Mary E. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: There is limited knowledge about how positive and negative parenting practices differ across individuals and change over time in parents with substantiated physical abuse history, and how trajectories of these parenting practices affect child adjustment. Objective: The present study examined latent trajectories of positive and negative…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children
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Deb, Sibnath; Walsh, Kerryann – School Psychology International, 2012
This study sought to understand the pervasiveness and impact of physical, psychological, and sexual violence on the social adjustment of Grade 8 and 9 school children in the state of Tripura, India. The study participants, 160 boys and 160 girls, were randomly selected from classes in eight English and Bengali medium schools in Agartala city,…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Sexual Harassment, Child Abuse, Identification
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Ward, Caryn Sabourin; Haskett, Mary E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: Cluster analysis was used to enhance understanding of heterogeneity in social adjustment of physically abused children. Method: Ninety-eight physically abused children (ages 5-10) were clustered on the basis of social adjustment, as measured by observed behavior with peers on the school playground and by teacher reports of social…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Social Adjustment, Child Abuse, Social Behavior
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Keil, Vivien; Price, Joseph M. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study examined relations among social information-processing (SIP) variables in the domains of peer provocation and peer group entry. Using Crick and Dodge's [Crick, N. R., & Dodge, K. A. (1994). "A review and reformulation of social information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment." "Psychological Bulletin," 115, 74-101]…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Peer Relationship, Social Adjustment, Peer Groups
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Haskett, Mary E.; Allaire, Jason C.; Kreig, Shawn; Hart, Kendrea C. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: Although social maladjustment appears to be common among abused children, negative outcomes are not inevitable. This investigation was designed to determine whether ethnicity and features of the parenting context predicted children's social adjustment, and whether the strength and direction of these relations differed for abused and…
Descriptors: African American Children, Ethnicity, Prosocial Behavior, Child Abuse
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Brendgen, Mara; Wanner, Brigitte; Vitaro, Frank; Bukowski, William M.; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Using a prospective design spanning 17 years, the authors studied in a sample of 231 boys and girls the predictive links of verbal abuse by the teacher during childhood to high-school graduation and behavioral and emotional problems in young adulthood, as well as the putative mediating role of individuals' generalized and domain-specific…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Probability, Females, Emotional Adjustment