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The Significance of Reciprocal and Unilateral Friendships for Peer Victimization in Adolescence
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Scholte, Ron H. J.; Overbeek, Geertjan; ten Brink, Giovanni; Rommes, Els; de Kemp, Raymond A. T.; Goossens, Luc; Engels, Rutger C. M. E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
The present study examined to what extent the number of friends and their social and personal characteristics were related to peer victimization in adolescence. Participants were 2,180 adolescents (1,143 girls), aged 11-18 (M = 14.2), who were classified as victims, bully-victims, or non-involved (i.e., adolescents who neither bullied others nor…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Friendship, Adolescents, Bullying
Stability in Bullying and Victimization and Its Association with Social Adjustment in Childhood and Adolescence
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Scholte, Ron H. J.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Overbeek, Geertjan; de Kemp, Raymond A. T.; Haselager, Gerbert J. T. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
This study examined the concurrent and longitudinal associations between stability in bullying and victimization, and social adjustment in childhood and adolescence. Participants were 189 girls and 328 boys who were studied in primary school and in secondary school. The mean age of the participants was 11.1 years in primary school and 14.1 years…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Social Adjustment, Children, Bullying
Mutual Antipathies and Their Significance in Middle Childhood and Adolescence.
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Abecassis, Maurissa; Hartup, Willard W.; Haselager, Gerbert J. T.; Scholte, Ron H. J.; Van Lieshout, Cornelis F. M. – Child Development, 2002
Investigated children's and adolescents' involvement in mutual antipathies. Found that children and boys of all ages were more frequently involved in same-sex antipathies; involvement in mixed-sex antipathies was comparable for both genders. Same-sex antipathies were associated with antisocial behavior and social withdrawal for both age and gender…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior
Perceived Relational Support in Adolescence: Dimensions, Configurations, and Adolescent Adjustment.
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Scholte, Ron H. J.; van Lieshout, Cornelis F. M.; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2001
Examined characteristics of perceived relational support from four key providers for 12- to 18-year-olds. Variable-centered factor analyses yielded five support dimensions, three specific to providers and two specific to provisions. Person-centered factor analyses identified five types of adolescents with different configurations of perceived…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Delinquency
The Social Relationships and Adjustment of the Various Personality Types and Subtypes.
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van Aken, Marcel A. G.; van Lieshout, Cornelis F. M.; Scholte, Ron H. J. – 1998
Most studies of child and adolescent personality have identified three main types (resilients, overcontrollers, and undercontrollers) and further subtypes using Q sort methodology. This study investigated the generalizability of a personality typology by using cluster analysis on the Big-Five scale with adolescents between 12 and 16 years of age.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Bullying