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Andrews, Naomi C. Z.; Martin, Carol L.; Field, Ryan D.; Cook, Rachel E.; Lee, Jieun – Child Development, 2016
This study examined children's expectancies about interactions with own- and other-gender peers. Goals were to examine expectancies about the outcomes related to own- versus other-gender group interactions, assess cohort and temporal changes in expectancies, and assess the effect of expectancies on school-related outcomes. Students in second and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Interaction, Peer Relationship, Grade 2
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Martin, Carol Lynn; Kornienko, Olga; Schaefer, David R.; Hanish, Laura D.; Fabes, Richard A.; Goble, Priscilla – Child Development, 2013
A stochastic actor-based model was used to investigate the origins of sex segregation by examining how similarity in sex of peers and time spent in gender-typed activities affected affiliation network selection and how peers influenced children's ("N" = 292; "M"[subscript age] = 4.3 years) activity involvement. Gender had…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Interaction, Peer Relationship
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Brendgen, Mara; Boivin, Michel; Vitaro, Frank; Bukowski, William M.; Dionne, Ginette; Tremblay, Richard E.; Perusse, Daniel – Child Development, 2008
Based on a sample of 406 seven-year-old twins, this study examined whether exposure to friends' social or physical aggression, respectively, moderates the effect of heritability on children's own social and physical aggression. Univariate analyses showed that children's own social and physical aggression were significantly explained by genetic…
Descriptors: Aggression, Genetics, Interaction, Antisocial Behavior
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Hanish, Laura D.; Martin, Carol Lynn; Fabes, Richard A.; Barcelo, Helene – Child Development, 2008
Preschoolers' (M[subscript age]=48.7 months) social breadth (the number of peer children interact with and the frequency of these interactions) and the relations between breadth and externalizing behaviors were examined using the Q-connectivity method. After considering age, sex, and classroom effects on social breadth, children's externalizing…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Preschool Children, Child Behavior