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Xiao, Sonya Xinyue; Martin, Carol Lynn; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy; DeLay, Dawn; Hanish, Laura D.; Fabes, Richard A.; Oswalt, Krista – Grantee Submission, 2022
Promoting prosocial behavior toward those who are dissimilar from oneself is an urgent contemporary issue. Because children spend much time in same-gender relationships, promoting other-gender prosociality could help them develop more inclusive relationships. Our goal in the present research was to better understand the extent to which…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Intergroup Relations, Gender Differences, Elementary School Students
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Martin, Carol Lynn; Xiao, Sonya Xinyue; DeLay, Dawn; Hanish, Laura D.; Fabes, Richard A.; Morris, Stacy; Oswalt, Krista – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
Most US students attend coeducational classes, but to what extent do students feel integrated into the entire classroom of their peers, especially with other-gender (OG) peers? The major goal of this study was to investigate how variations in gender integration (GI), measured by students' expectancies about inclusion, efficacy, and social costs of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Gender Issues, Student Attitudes, Inclusion
Martin, Carol Lynn; Xiao, Sonya Xinyue; DeLay, Dawn; Hanish, Laura D.; Fabes, Richard A.; Morris, Stacy; Oswalt, Krista – Grantee Submission, 2022
Most US students attend coeducational classes, but to what extent do students feel integrated into the entire classroom of their peers, especially with other-gender peers? The major goal of this research was to investigate how variations in gender integration (GI), measured by students' expectancies about inclusion, efficacy, and social costs of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Gender Issues, Student Attitudes, Inclusion
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DeLay, Dawn; Laursen, Brett; Kiuru, Noona; Rogers, Adam; Kindermann, Thomas; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
The present study compares two methods for assessing peer influence: the longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model (L-APIM) and the longitudinal social network analysis (L-SNA) Model. The data were drawn from 1,995 (49% girls and 51% boys) third grade students (M[subscript age] = 9.68 years). From this sample, L-APIM (n = 206…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Evaluation Methods, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Kiuru, Noona; DeLay, Dawn; Laursen, Brett; Burk, William J.; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This longitudinal study from Grades 1 to 4 investigated (a) the extent to which children select peers based on similarity in reading skills and (b) the extent to which children are influenced by the level of their peers' reading skills. The sample consisted of 1003 Finnish children in Grades 1-4, for whom reading fluency and comprehension were…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 2
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DeLay, Dawn; Laursen, Brett; Kiuru, Noona; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Aunola, Kaisa – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2016
This study investigated friend influence over mathematics achievement in 202 same-sex friendship dyads (106 girl dyads). Participants were in the third grade (around age 9) at the outset. Each friend completed a questionnaire describing interest in mathematics and a standardized mathematical reasoning assessment. Peer nominations provided a…
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Influence, Peer Acceptance, Logical Thinking
DeLay, Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was designed to investigate friend influence on academic achievement and task avoidance during middle childhood in a sample of 794 participants in 397 stable same-sex friendship dyads (205 girl dyads and 192 boy dyads) from four municipalities in Finland: two in Central Finland, one in Western Finland, and one in Eastern Finland.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Friendship, Peer Influence