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Boulton, Michael J.; Smith, Peter K.; Cowie, Helen – School Psychology International, 2010
This study tested transactional models to explain the short-term longitudinal links between self-perceptions and involvement in bullying and victimization among 115 9- to 10-year-old children. Self-perceptions were measured with Harter's Self-Perception Profile for Children (six sub-scales) and bullying/victimization by means of peer nominations.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Females, Peer Relationship, Victims of Crime
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Betts, Lucy R.; Rotenberg, Ken J. – Infant and Child Development, 2007
The aim of present study was to examine the relationship between young children's peer-reported trustworthiness and their school adjustment. Two hundred and eleven (103 male and 108 female) children in the United Kingdom (mean age = 6 years 2 months) took part in this study. Measures of peer-reported trustworthiness, child-rated school adjustment,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Friendship, Student Adjustment, Credibility
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McCrystal, Patrick; Percy, Andrew; Higgins, Kathryn – Journal of Youth Studies, 2007
Young people excluded from school are a group at an increased risk of drug use and antisocial behaviour during adolescence and later marginalisation and exclusion from society in adulthood. As part of the Belfast Youth Development Study, a longitudinal study of the onset and development of adolescent drug use, young people who entered post-primary…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Young Adults, Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation