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Peer reviewedKramer, Michael W. – Human Communication Research, 1996
Examines the impact of peer communication on transferees within organizations. Uses uncertainty reduction theory to examine the impact of the frequency of peer communication, the quality of peer communication, and network multiplexity on transferees' adjustment to their new positions. Suggests that quality of peer communication is associated with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication, Longitudinal Studies, Organizational Communication
Peer reviewedCrick, Nicki R.; Casas, Juan F.; Ku, Hyon-Chin – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Assessed relational and physical peer victimization among 3- to 5-year olds. Found that boys were significantly more physically victimized than girls, whereas girls were more relationally victimized. Both types of victims experienced greater adjustment problems than did their peers. Relational victimization contributed unique information about…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Aggression, Bullying, Emotional Adjustment
Direct linkOstrov, Jamie M.; Woods, Kathleen E.; Jansen, Elizabeth A.; Casas, Juan F.; Crick, Nicki R. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004
A semi-structured observational study investigated gender differences in delivered and received relational, physical, verbal, and nonverbal aggression in a young preschool sample (N=60). Findings revealed that gender differences in subtypes of aggression may be apparent as early as 3 years of age. Specifically, girls were found to deliver and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Aggression, Observation, Social Adjustment
Girls' Stable Peer Status and Their Adulthood Adjustment: A Longitudinal Study from Age 10 to Age 43
Zettergren, Peter; Bergman, Lars R.; Wangby, Margit – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
Stable peer status clusters of rejected, popular, and average girls from ages 10 to 13 were identified and associated to young and middle adulthood adjustment. The study included a representative sample of 445 females from the longitudinal research program Individual Development and Adaptation. Results showed that, by young adulthood, rejected…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Alcohol Abuse, Peer Acceptance
Peer reviewedWoods, C. Lee – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1975
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Peer Relationship, Prediction
Download full textSelman, Robert L.; And Others – 1976
This paper discusses a developmental-descriptive approach to the study of children, adolescent, and adult understanding of interpersonal relationships. A study is reported which compares the level of interpersonal reasoning of children with clinically identified peer relation problems with the reasoning level of a case-control sample of better…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Interpersonal Competence
Isaacson-Kailes, June; And Others – 1981
The document describes a study which investigated the social adjustment of orthopedically handicapped (OH), mainstreamed, high school students by comparing their status with that of their nonOH classmates on several socioaffective measures. An introduction reviews literature on the assumptions underlying mainstreaming and research on the academic…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mainstreaming, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship
Deno, Stanley L.; And Others – 1980
As part of a project to develop formative evaluation systems for use in improving learning disabilities (LD) service programs in social adjustment, two studies were conducted to identify simple and efficient measures of children's social adjustment and to determine their relationship to other measures of a student's classroom social status.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Formative Evaluation, Learning Disabilities
Segal, Julius; Segal, Zelda – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1986
Describes the powerful force that peer relationships exert on a child. Focuses on four aspects of development in which children's friendships predominate: finding out how to deal with aggression; learning about sex; developing moral standards; and finding emotional security. Discusses when and how adults should intervene in a child's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Influence
Peer reviewedAffleck, Glenn G. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1976
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Interpersonal Competence, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedGottman, John; And Others – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1976
The effects of a social skill training program on sociometric position, and on the quality, frequency, and distribution of social interaction to peers were assessed with four socially isolated children from a third grade class (n=22). (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research, Peer Relationship, Primary Education
Peer reviewedSchneider, Barry H. – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
The author of EC 602 983 comments on his areas of research interest, speculates about the reasons why the social adjustment of kindergartners appears so different from that of older elementary school children, and examines the benefits of providing kindergarten experiences that maximize interactions among bright pupils. (JDD)
Descriptors: Gifted, Interaction, Kindergarten, Mainstreaming
Peer reviewedCrick, Nicki R.; Ladd, Gary W. – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Assessed third and fifth graders' feelings of loneliness, social anxiety, and social avoidance and their attributions for social outcomes. Compared with peers, rejected children reported more loneliness and were more likely to attribute relationship failures to external causes. Among socially distressed children, attribution patterns varied with…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 5
Peer reviewedStormont, Melissa – Psychology in the Schools, 2001
Provides a review of the literature in the area of social characteristics of children with AD/HD, and outlines interventions for working with specific social problems. Presents possible reasons for the peer rejection of AD/HD students and includes inappropriate social behavior, social knowledge deficits and biases, and negative interactions with…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Counseling Techniques, Hyperactivity
Ma, Imei – Childhood Education, 2006
Peer relationships play an important role in socialization during childhood and young adolescence. Negative relationships may pose multiple difficulties for children related to their development that can have lifelong influences. Research indicates that the quality of peer relationships is associated with a variety of outcomes, such as social…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Adjustment, Peer Relationship, Socialization
