ITEMS ON BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN THE MANTOR LIBRARY AT FARMINGTON STATE COLLEGE INCLUDE 468 REFERENCES TO BOOKS, RESEARCH REPORTS, CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, CONVENTION REPORTS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES. SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS, DELINQUENCY, SOCIAL MALADJUSTMENT, PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT, AND VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND TRAINING.…

This study deals with the development of techniques to measure the area of childhood personality development known as coping ability. Coping ability can be seen in children's ways of handling unfamiliar and stressful situations and is a skill that is seen as likely very influential in an individual's total development, both social-emotional and…

Discusses the problems of social adjustment for children as Nigeria struggles with two cultures--its traditional culture and its Western colonial past. Identifies effects on present day child rearing practices in families and villages. (DST)

Reviewed is the development of a cohesive group feeling during the first 18 months of a new residential school for maladjusted boys from 7 to 13 years of age. (DB)

Examined family- and sibling-type differences in sibling relationship quality and links between sibling relationship quality and child behavior problems among 192 families with a 5-year-old target child and an older sibling. Found that sibling negativity was highest in single-mother families. Found that full-siblings were more negative than half-…

Discusses the ways in which nonhostile, self-accepting, realistic humor may be an important coping strategy for children. Offers practical suggestions for parents, teachers, and other caretakers to encourage the development of humor in children. (FMW)

Used peer nomination and self-report instruments to assess relational aggression, overt aggression, and social adjustment for 491 third through sixth graders. Found that girls were more relationally aggressive than boys and that relationally aggressive children were more rejected by peers and reported more loneliness, depression, and isolation…

Adjustment to having a sibling who is gifted was explored with 366 triads consisting of a mother and two children, ages 7 through 14, of whom either one child was gifted, both were gifted, or neither was gifted. Having a sibling who is gifted did not appear to be stressful. (SW)

Discusses the developmental challenges faced by children in wartime and similar circumstances. Reviews studies made in several scenes of conflict from World War II to the present. Adults' political ideologies can be sustaining and supportive but may prolong communal violence and curtail moral development. (DM)

Aggressive behavior in childhood has long been separated into that which is proactively motivated and that which is reactive. We report a meta-analytic review of the existing empirical literature that examines the associations of each type of aggression with six indices of psychosocial adjustment: internalizing problems, emotional dysregulation…

The social goals and social problem-solving of children who varied in social adjustment were examined in the context of hypothetical ambiguous provocation situations in which provocateurs' emotion displays were systematically manipulated. Children rated the importance of six different social goals and explained how they would solve the problems.…

Assessed was the degree to which classification of mental retardation levels based upon a measure of adaptive behavior (the Vineland Social Maturity Scale) differed from the classification based upon IQ for Negro and Caucasian children, 4 to 17 years of age. (Author)

Examined the relationship between social adjustment and problem solving skills in samples of popular, aggressive, and isolated boys. Popular boys generated more problem solutions than the other groups. Data showed deviant boys are deficient in generating solutions but not in evaluations of presented solutions. (Author/RC)

Schools have a responsibility to match curricula to each child's needs and talent. While cognitive functioning is usually assessed to determine this match, motivation and adjustment are equally important determinants of intellectual competence and should also be evaluated. (Author/GC)

Examined relations of effortful control and ego control to children's resiliency, social status, and social competence concurrently (Time 3) and over time. Found that at Time 3, resiliency mediated the unique relations of effortful and reactive control to social status, and effortful control directly predicted socially appropriate behavior.…