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Knishkowsky, Barry; And Others – Adolescence, 1995
Examines recurrent psychosomatic symptoms and symptom clusters among Israeli school children (n=259). Results of a questionnaire that asked about the frequency of 8 psychosomatic and 8 organic complaints indicated that girls had a higher prevalence than boys for 8 of the symptoms, and that abdominal pain and headache were each reported as an…
Descriptors: Children, Higher Education, Pain, Preadolescents
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Lobel, Thalma E.; Gewirtz, Jonathan; Pras, Rinat; Shoeshine-Rokach, Michal; Ginton, Ronit – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1999
Investigated the relationships between inferences and judgments of a target girl by preadolescents and early adolescents, their self-endorsement of female traits and gender of playmates, and gender-typedness of the game. Results with 251 Israeli students show gender differences, which are discussed within the framework of gender-schema theories.…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Play
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Shechtman, Zipora; And Others – Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1994
Investigated the effects of group therapy on latency-age children lacking social skills. Found that experimental boys were more realistic about their friendship relationships after treatment than were control group boys. Girls' perceptions were significantly correlated at the end of treatment, whether they were experimental or control subjects.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Friendship, Group Therapy
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Orbach, Israel; Florian, Victor – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1992
Examined impact of religion and gender on fifth graders' (n=142) attitudes toward life and death. Although all children displayed high attraction and low repulsion to life and low attraction and high repulsion to death, religious children displayed higher attraction to death. Found main effect of gender and gender x religiosity interaction.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Death, Foreign Countries, Grade 5
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Karniol, Rachel; Reichman, Shiri; Fund, Liat – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 2000
Examined the effects of preadolescents' gender orientation on social perception of animal characters whose gender was clearly female, male, or gender-ambiguous. Children's gender orientation did not influence perceptions of the gender of characters that were clearly female and male, but did influence perceptions of ambiguous characters. Children's…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
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Lobel, Thalma E.; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Fifth and sixth graders completed a sex role orientation measure, viewed a film portraying a child playing gender-appropriate games with members of the same sex or gender-inappropriate games with members of the opposite sex, and made judgments about the child. Subjects' judgments were influenced by the child's gender-related behaviors but not by…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Preadolescents