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Mastromatteo, Libera Ylenia; Zaccoletti, Sonia; Mason, Lucia; Scrimin, Sara – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: To be successful, students must learn to deal with socially and cognitively demanding tasks. Much remains unknown about the effects of previous classroom experiences and of students' emotional appraisal of a task on their physiological adaptive responses to it. Aims: To investigate how children's physiological response to a social and…
Descriptors: Physiology, Metabolism, Emotional Response, Student Reaction
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La Greca, Annette M.; Lai, Betty S.; Llabre, Maria M.; Silverman, Wendy K.; Vernberg, Eric M.; Prinstein, Mitchell J. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2013
Background: There are no studies of the distinct trajectories of children's psychological distress over the first year after a destructive natural disaster and the determinants of these trajectories. Objective: We examined these issues using an existing dataset of children exposed to Hurricane Andrew, one of the most devastating natural…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychological Patterns, Natural Disasters
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Shell, Madelynn D.; Gazelle, Heidi; Faldowski, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Consistent with a Diathesis × Stress model, it was hypothesized that anxious solitude (individual vulnerability) and the middle school transition (environmental stress) would jointly predict peer exclusion and victimization trajectories. Youth (N = 688) were followed from 3rd through 7th grade, with the middle school transition in 6th grade.…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Anxiety, Stress Variables, Elementary School Students