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Malamut, Sarah T.; Trach, Jessica; Garandeau, Claire F.; Salmivalli, Christina – Child Development, 2023
Defending peers who have been bullied is often thought to put defenders at risk of becoming victimized themselves. The study investigated the concurrent and prospective associations between defending and (peer- and self-reported) victimization, and examined popularity and classroom norms as potential moderators. Participants included 4085 Finnish…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Advocacy, Correlation
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Peltola, Antonina; Karlsson, Liisa; Kangas, Jonna – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
Being part of a peer group and feeling a sense of belonging increases the well-being of children in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Still, children face exclusion and rejection by peers. This study examined children's peer exclusion experiences in pre-primary school settings, investigating children's voices and perspectives through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Peer Acceptance, Social Isolation
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Brezicha, Kristina F.; Leroux, Audrey J. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2023
Students' positive experiences in schools positively predicts students' political trust. However, little research has examined how individual students' feelings of exclusion at their schools may relate to students' political trust. Moreover, how does an overall sense of exclusion from the school relate to political trust apart from individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Köngäs, Mirja; Määttä, Kaarina; Uusiautti, Satu – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This research describes the rules and ways of forming playgroups in the children's peer culture. The data were obtained through observation by videoing children's activities in various play situations. The data were analysed through ethnographic thick description by using microanalysis and participation framework. The analysis was focused on who…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Play, Group Activities, Child Behavior
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Eskelä-Haapanen, Sirpa; Vasalampi, Kati; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This mixed-method study examines students' expectations and concerns before transitioning from primary to lower secondary school and the role of students' school-related wellbeing and self-esteem in their concerns. Students reported their beliefs about the forthcoming school transition and filled in a questionnaire assessing school burnout and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Student Adjustment, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Laursen, Brett; Richmond, Ashley; Kiuru, Noona; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
The present study examined the academic antecedents of declining peer social status. Participants included 545 (311 boys, 234 girls) Finnish students followed from the 1st through the 4th grade (ages 6-8 at outset). Each year, teachers completed assessments of academic task avoidance and students completed standardized measures of reading and math…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Rytioja, Marleene; Lappalainen, Kristiina; Savolainen, Hannu – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2019
Many behavioural and emotional characteristics are associated with children's peer relationships. The purpose of this study is to examine behavioural and emotional strengths of sociometrically popular, rejected, controversial, neglected, and average children. 773 third-grade children (51% girls) are assessed with a sociometric questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Peer Relationship, Elementary School Students
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Garandeau, Claire F.; Lee, Ihno A.; Salmivalli, Christina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Sharing a classroom environment with other victimized peers has been shown to mitigate the adverse effects of peer victimization on children's social and psychological adjustment. By extension, this study hypothesized that classroom reductions in the proportion of victims would be harmful for children who remain victimized. Data were collected at…
Descriptors: Incidence, Bullying, Victims, Student Adjustment
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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
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Findley, Danielle; Ojanen, Tiina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
This study examined adolescent coercive and prosocial resource control strategies in relation to various indices of peer-reported behaviors and peer regard ("N" = 384; 12-14 years). Coercive control was uniquely positively related to physical and relational aggression and peer disliking, and negatively to prosocial behaviors when…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Social Adjustment, Aggression, Withdrawal (Psychology)
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Kiuru, Noona; Aunola, Kaisa; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Pakarinen, Eija; Poskiparta, Elisa; Ahonen, Timo; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined cross-lagged associations between positive teacher and peer relations and academic skill development. Reading and math skills were tested among 625 students in kindergarten and Grade 4. Teacher reports of positive affect toward each student and classmate reports of peer acceptance were gathered in Grades 1-3. The results…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Peer Acceptance, Prediction
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Acquah, Emmanuel O.; Palonen, Tuire; Lehtinen, Erno; Laine, Kaarina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The focus of our study is social status among first graders. In particular, we will consider the relationship between acceptance and rejection, and how these are connected to three social behavioral traits: bullying, victimization, and social withdrawal. The data set is from peer nominations of 748 children from 49 classrooms in the southwest of…
Descriptors: Social Status, Profiles, Grade 1, Social Behavior
Seitz, Christopher M.; Milroy, Jeffrey J.; Orsini, Muhsin Michael; Wyrick, David L.; Herring, Jeremy; Koech, Mike – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2011
The hookah pipe is an ancient tool for smoking tobacco and is a growing public health concern at the global level. YouTube is a website that allows its members to post videos for people to watch and to share comments about the videos in an online forum. The purpose of the study was to investigate the types of videos about hookah on YouTube, their…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Smoking, Health Personnel
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Kiuru, Noona; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Niemi, Pekka; Poskiparta, Elisa; Ahonen, Timo; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
This study examined the role of reading disability (RD) risk and environmental protective factors in reading fluency in grade 4. The sample consisted of 538 Finnish-speaking students. Kindergarten measures included the students' risk for RD based on poor achievement in phonological awareness and letter knowledge as well as information on the three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, At Risk Students
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