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School Social Relations, Self-Regulation, and Social Decision-Making
People, including children, have an innate drive to “belong”— to feel connected to others and maintain satisfying relationships. Fulfillment of this need requires stable, positive interactions with others; a s...
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Protecting Youth Against the Adverse Effects of Peer Victimization: Why Do Parents Matter?
Exposure to peer victimization is associated with a variety of adverse outcomes but there is individual variability in its effects, suggesting the need to identify why some youth are resilient in the face of v...
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Emerging adults’ self-identified peer crowd affiliations and college adjustment
Crowd affiliations are integral to academic functioning and school adjustment during adolescence. However, less is known about crowd structures within institutions of higher education. The current study was de...
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School-related Factors in the Development of Bullying Perpetration and Victimization: Introduction to the Special Section
Although not limited to school contexts, bullying perpetration and victimization often emanates from social ecologies formed within the classroom. Thus, to fully illuminate risk for involvement in bullying, we...
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Teachers’ Victimization-Related Beliefs and Strategies: Associations with Students’ Aggressive Behavior and Peer Victimization
Although teachers are often called upon to reduce children’s bullying and aggression, little is known regarding teachers’ responses to students’ harassment of peers or the beliefs which may inform their respon...
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The Unique and Interactive Contributions of Peer Victimization and Teacher-Child Relationships to Children’s School Adjustment
The present study tested whether a close relationship with the teacher would reduce, or a conflictual relationship would amplify, links between peer victimization and school maladjustment. Data on 352 3rd- and...
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Individual differences in biological stress responses moderate the contribution of early peer victimization to subsequent depressive symptoms
Some children who are exposed to early peer victimization become depressed, whereas others are resilient. Understanding individual differences in responses to early adversity, such as victimization, is critica...
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Peer Processes and Gender Role Development: Changes in Gender Atypicality Related to Negative Peer Treatment and Children’s Friendships
Peer socialization has been proposed to elicit gender norm adherence through: a) rebuke for exhibiting gender nonnormative characteristics and b) engagement in same-sex interactions. However, there is little e...
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Peer Victimization and Aggression: Moderation by Individual Differences in Salivary Cortiol and Alpha-Amylase
This research examined whether variations in salivary measures of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (cortisol) and autonomic nervous system (alpha amylase [sAA]) contribute to individual differences in t...
