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Why Does Classroom-Level Victimization Moderate the Association between Victimization and Depressive Symptoms? The "Healthy Context Paradox" and Two Explanations
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Pan, Bin; Li, Tengfei; Ji, Linqin; Malamut, Sarah; Zhang, Wenxin; Salmivalli, Christina – Child Development, 2021
The present longitudinal study examined how and why classroom-level victimization moderates the prospective association between peer victimization and depressive symptoms with 2,643 third- and fourth-graders (M[subscript age] = 10.01 years) in China. Multilevel modeling revealed that peer victimization was more strongly associated with increasing…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Victims, Bullying, Peer Acceptance
Parent and Peer Contexts for Children's Moral Reasoning Development.
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Walker, Lawrence J.; Hennig, Karl H.; Krettenauer, Tobias – Child Development, 2000
Examined predictors of children's moral reasoning development over 4-year period. Found that parental and friend interaction during moral conflict discussions influenced development differently. Minimal moral development was predicted by friends' cognitive challenges to the target child's moral reasoning and by parents' interfering interactions.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies, Moral Development
Age and Gender as Determinants of Stress Exposure, Generation, and Reactions in Youngsters: A Transactional Perspective.
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Rudolph, Karen D.; Hammen, Constance – Child Development, 1999
Used contextual and transactional approach to examine age and gender differences in experience and consequences of life stress in clinic-referred 8- to 18-year olds. Found that adolescent girls experienced highest interpersonal stress, self-generated within parent-child and peer relationships. Preadolescent girls experienced highest independent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Context Effect, Family Relationship
The Development of Reasoning about Causal and Noncausal Influences on Levers.
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Amsel, Eric; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined 5- to 12-year-olds' judgment regarding the behavior of balance scales and other levers whose arms varied in a causal or a noncausal variable. Results indicated age-related increases in correct judgments about the influence of physical features of objects at an earlier age than about spatial relations between objects. (MOK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect