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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bai, Yu; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S.; Jones, Damon – Child Development, 2022
The hypothesis was tested that some children develop a defensive mindset that subsumes individual social information processing (SIP) steps, grows from early experiences, and guides long-term outcomes. In Study 1 (Fast Track [FT]), 463 age-5 children (45% girls; 43% Black) were first assessed in 1991 and followed through age 32 (83% retention). In…
Descriptors: Defense Mechanisms, Personality Traits, Emotional Response, Social Cognition
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Pinquart, Martin; Block, Helena – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2020
The experiment analyzed reactions of 115 first- to fourth-graders after realizing that they performed worse than they expected in a computer game. Based on the VIOLEX model of expectation violation, we assessed immunization against achievement feedback, assimilation (striving to increase performance), and accommodation (willingness for expectation…
Descriptors: Coping, Expectation, Defense Mechanisms, Student Reaction
Alexis Lynnette Wilkerson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
It is estimated that 16% of men and 26% of women have experienced child sexual abuse (CSA), and studies have shown a strong association with long-term psychosocial consequences. The use of psychoeducational groups with survivors of CSA has been found to produce favorable outcomes; however, no meta-analyses have been conducted on studies assessing…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Psychopathology, Group Therapy, Children
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Meshcheryakova, Ksenia – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
This article explores the dynamics of orphaned children's engagement with art therapy in a group of preadolescent children living in a Russian orphanage. The phenomenon of repetition compulsion (i.e., origins in past traumatic experiences, destructive consequences, and protective psychic function) is discussed with respect to the children's…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Children, Institutionalized Persons, Trauma
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Wager, Nadia – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2012
This study was an investigation of the additional risk conferred by the experience of psychogenic amnesia for memories of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on the likelihood of becoming a victim of sexual assault in later life. A total of 210 community respondents completed a retrospective web-based trauma survey. The majority of respondents were…
Descriptors: Children, Sexual Abuse, Risk, Victims
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Reicher, Barbara – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
Denial in some form is almost always present in the assessment and therapy of children with sexual behavior problems. Although it can be a major element in the therapeutic interaction, denial has received scant attention, both in teaching programs and professional literature. It is as if the clinical community is "denying denial."…
Descriptors: Children, Sexuality, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
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Zsolnai, Aniko; Kasik, Laszlo; Braunitzer, Gabor – Educational Psychology, 2015
The aim of the cross-sectional study was to reveal what coping strategies 8, 10- and 12-year-old Hungarian students (N?=?167) use in situations that are frustrating, either for themselves or their peers. The coping strategies in school situations were assessed by our own questionnaires. The instrument enables the investigation of the following…
Descriptors: Coping, Change Strategies, Elementary School Students, Questionnaires
Alodail, Abdullah Kholifh – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Hearing aid devices are worn within people's ears to help them hear the sounds around them. Teachers have to accept the use of hearing aids in the classroom as a device to assist students with hearing loss (Plumley, 2008). Further study is helpful to hearing aid research because it demonstrates the importance of hearing aid benefit awareness in…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Social Life, Student Attitudes, Hearing Impairments
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Leander, Lina – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: The present study investigated 27 sexually abused children's reports about abuse given in the context of police interviews. All abuse cases had been verified (with, e.g., photographs or video films), proving that abuse had occurred. Method: The interviews with the children were analyzed regarding amount and type of information reported,…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Defense Mechanisms, Victims of Crime
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Colangelo, James J. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
The recovered memory controversy has been an ongoing debate within the mental health profession for the past two decades. Disagreement remains in the field over the veracity of "forgotten" memories of childhood sexual abuse that are recalled or recovered during therapy. At the heart of the controversy are the concepts of repression and…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Children, Defense Mechanisms, Case Studies
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Dunkels, Elza – Critical Studies in Education, 2008
This paper presents the results of an interview study of 104 12-year old children. The aim was to learn more about how children use the Internet, what they find negative on the Internet and what coping strategies they use. The media debate seems to display consensus regarding what threats the Internet poses to young people. However, this study…
Descriptors: Coping, Internet, Interviews, Children
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Rizzuto, Ana-Maria – New Directions for Child Development, 1991
Religious development is considered from a psychoanalytic point of view. Discussion focuses on the representation of a personal, living God that a child forms in the first five years of life. (BB)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Children, Defense Mechanisms
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Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky; Skinner, Karey – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Examined the role of coping strategies as moderators of the effects of peer victimization on children's adjustment among 9- and 10-year-olds. Found that strategies such as problem solving that were beneficial for non-victimized children exacerbated difficulties for victimized children. Social support seeking buffered victimized girls but not boys.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Children, Coping, Defense Mechanisms
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Armsworth, Mary W.; Holaday, Margot – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1993
Literature review of cognitive, affective, behavioral, and somatic-psychological effects as a consequence of overwhelming life events in children and adolescents is compared with DSM-III-R definition of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Responses likely in children and adolescents are discussed; suggestions for future research and counseling…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavior, Children
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Klingman, Avigdor – School Psychology International, 2000
Examines the response of children in the Golan Heights to the ambiguous situation during the continuing peace talks between Israel and Syria concerning a possible evacuation of the region's settlers. Results suggest that social support, defensiveness, religion, and living in smaller settlements predicted better coping, whereas less social support…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Children, Collective Settlements
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