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Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor for Promoting Positive Adjustment and Reducing Risk in School Children
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Domitrovich, Celene E.; Durlak, Joseph A.; Staley, Katharine C.; Weissberg, Roger P. – Child Development, 2017
Social-emotional competence is a critical factor to target with universal preventive interventions that are conducted in schools because the construct (a) associates with social, behavioral, and academic outcomes that are important for healthy development; (b) predicts important life outcomes in adulthood; (c) can be improved with feasible and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Screening Tests, Intervention
Understanding Relations among Early Family Environment, Cortisol Response, and Child Aggression via a Prevention Experiment
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O'Neal, Colleen R.; Brotman, Laurie Miller; Huang, Keng-Yen; Gouley, Kathleen Kiely; Kamboukos, Dimitra; Calzada, Esther J.; Pine, Daniel S. – Child Development, 2010
This study examined relations among family environment, cortisol response, and behavior in the context of a randomized controlled trial with 92 children (M = 48 months) at risk for antisocial behavior. Previously, researchers reported an intervention effect on cortisol response in anticipation of a social challenge. The current study examined…
Descriptors: Intervention, Antisocial Behavior, Infants, Family Environment
Research on Resilience: Response to Commentaries.
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Luthar, Suniya S.; Cicchetti, Dante; Becker, Bronwyn – Child Development, 2000
Clarifies two sets of issues raised in preceding commentaries. First, interaction effects are undoubtedly salient in resilience research; yet main effect findings can be equally critical from an intervention perspective. Second, although resilience research and prevention science reflect similar broad objectives, the former involves explicit…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Prevention, Psychopathology
Are There Implications for Prevention Research from Studies of Resilience?
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Robinson, JoAnn L. – Child Development, 2000
Examines whether prevention research can benefit from resilience research in designing interventions. Suggests that although many areas in the investigative interests of prevention and resilience researchers overlap, Luther, Cicchetti, and Becker may have set the bar too high for defining resilience in the context of varying levels of adversity.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Intervention, Prevention