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Disruptiveness, Friends' Characteristics, and Delinquency in Early Adolescence: A Test of Two Competing Models of Development.
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Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Kerr, Margaret; Pagani, Linda; Bukowski, William M. – Child Development, 1997
Tested the individual characteristics and deviant peer association theoretical models of friends' influence on the development of delinquency in disruptive boys. Found that moderately disruptive boys with aggressive-disturbing friends were more delinquent at age 13 than other subgroups of moderately disruptive boys. Highly disruptive and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Aggression, Conformity, Delinquency
Appraisal, Social Support, and Life Events: Predicting Outcome Behavior in School-Age Children.
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Jackson, Yo; Warren, Jared S. – Child Development, 2000
Examined relationship between social support and appraisal of life events in predicting adaptive, externalizing, and internalizing behavior in 265 seven- to 13-year-olds. Found support for both the main effects and moderator models of the association between life events and global social support. Gender differences were found. Appraisal of life…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Children, Emotional Adjustment
A Model of the Effects of Perceived Parent and Peer Support on Adolescent False Self Behavior.
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Harter, Susan; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Hypothesized a model linking three perceived support variables--level of support, quality of support, and hope about future support--to false self-behaviors (not the "real me"). The best fitting model for the parent and peer data revealed that perceived quality and level of parental support predicted hope about future parental support,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Models
Caregiving and Developmental Factors Differentiating Young At-Risk Urban Children Showing Resilient Versus Stress-Affected Outcomes: A Replication and Extension.
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Wyman, Peter A.; And Others – Child Development, 1999
Tested hypotheses from an organizational-developmental model for childhood resilience among 7- to 9-year olds. Found that caregiving factors and early development differentiated children with resilient and stress-affected adaptations. Variables reflecting emotionally responsive, competent parenting were direct, proximal predictors of resilience…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Children, Models, Parent Background
Growing or Just Getting Along? Technical and Adaptive Competence in Coping among Adolescents.
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Fournet, Denise L.; Wilson, Kenneth L.; Wallander, Jan L. – Child Development, 1998
Examined technical and adaptive competence in coping among 97 African-American adolescents with learning disabilities. Findings indicated that short-term, reactive, technical competence was a better predictor of feelings of efficacy, and longer-term, developmental adaptive competence was a better predictor of behavioral problems. Gender subsample…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Perceptions of Emotional Support from Mother and Friend in Middle Childhood: Links with Social-Emotional Adaptation and Preschool Attachment Security.
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Booth, Cathryn L.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda – Child Development, 1998
Assessed 8-year-olds' perceptions of emotional support from mother and best friend. Found that preschool attachment security predicted age-8 maternal-support perceptions better than did mother's behavior. Identification of best friends as part of the support network related positively to social competence. The more insecurely attached children…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students