The current research explored the theory of social goal orientation. More specifically, we conducted three studies utilizing six-independent university student samples to evaluate the construct validity of the Social Achievement Goal Orientation Scale (SAGOS; Ryan & Hopkins, 2003), a measure representing the construct of social goal orientation.…

A number of studies have found evidence suggesting that being a witness to violence puts a child at risk of developing social and psychological problems. However, most of these studies used populations of severely battered women and did not control for confounding with other family characteristics. This study analyzed male and female responses…

These bibliographies list resources on the mental health and social adjustment of refugees. A majority of the cited references are specifically about Southeast Asian refugees. Each citation includes author, title, date of publication, and the name of the publisher or organization through which it is available. Books, journal articles, and…

A disabled adult remembers his experiences growing up with nondisabled children and learning to interact and make friends. (CL)

A model developed by S. Fink is presented for understanding and predicting the phases through which an adolescent passes when facing paralysis. Implications for treatment based on this model are suggested. (Author/CL)

The teacher of six deaf 11- to 12-year-olds who were also socially maladjusted and/or learning disabled describes how he used the opportunity to participate in a class movie as a reward for classroom behavior and productivity. (CL)

Examined the relationship between interpersonal competence and marital adjustment in 179 married couples who completed questionnaires on both concepts. Findings supported the basic hypothesis that social anxiety is negatively related to marital adjustment, but social anxiety was primarily related to marital adjustment of self and not spouse. (JAC)

The writer suggests that a new aim for Extension should be helping people adjust to social change. (NL)

To discover what patterns of syndromic profiles may commonly exist among children, the data for the most recent revision of the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides are reanalyzed. The syndrome scores for all 2,527 five to fifteen-year-old regular school children in the standardization sample were grouped into similar profile patterns by hierarchical…

Results of the California Psychological Inventory and Career Development Inventory for 200 college students indicated that planful competence in career development is related to greater realization of one's potential and social adjustment. Mature attitudes toward career planning are related to extroversion and a positive orientation to social…

Two studies investigated the proposition that social achievement goals (different orientations toward social competence) are an important aspect of young adolescents' social motivation. Study 1 (N = 153 6th-grade students) established that different orientations toward developing or demonstrating social competence can be seen in young adolescents'…

Little is known about the academic processing speed (i.e., rapid automatic naming and academic fluency) of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) served in public school settings. A cross-sectional design was used to investigate the (a) percentage of K-12 students with EBD served in public school settings with…

We examined the role of the teacher-child relationship quality (close, dependent, and conflictive) on preschoolers' (N=95) academic readiness for kindergarten, and we tested children's prosocial and aggressive behavior and peer group exclusion as mediators of this relation. A unique feature of this study is the ethnically and socio-economically…

Background: Children's physiological reactivity was examined as a moderator of relations between parental dysphoria and child adjustment problems, addressing gaps in the study of child characteristics as risk processes. Method: One hundred fifty-seven children (86 boys, 71 girls) were assessed twice over a two-year interval. Skin conductance level…

The academic achievement and social functioning of children with learning difficulties (LD) and children without LD (7-12 years old) was examined. Attainment scores in mathematics and English were obtained for each child, and a sample of children without LD was further classified as low achieving (LA) or high achieving (HA) on the basis of these…