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Overactive Behavior, Peer Rejection, and Interactive Play in Head Start Preschoolers School Readiness Moderates Social Outcomes
Title
Overactive Behavior, Peer Rejection, and Interactive Play in Head Start Preschoolers School Readiness Moderates Social Outcomes.
Creator
Bortman, Gilly, Laursen, Brett, Graduate College, Bulotsky-Shearer, Rebecca J.
Abstract/Description
Theorists and researchers have emphasized the importance of interactive peer play for children’s social-emotional and cognitive development. Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at increased risk for social-emotional and cognitive difficulties. Therefore, it is important to determine the causes of interactive peer play, particularly in a high-risk sample of Head Start preschoolers. Overactive behavior at the beginning of the preschool year has been shown to negatively predict...
Show moreTheorists and researchers have emphasized the importance of interactive peer play for children’s social-emotional and cognitive development. Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at increased risk for social-emotional and cognitive difficulties. Therefore, it is important to determine the causes of interactive peer play, particularly in a high-risk sample of Head Start preschoolers. Overactive behavior at the beginning of the preschool year has been shown to negatively predict changes in interactive play between the beginning and end of the preschool year. However, possible mechanisms of this association have been underexplored. The main purpose of this study will be to determine whether peer rejection mediates the association between overactive behavior and changes in interactive play and whether mediation is conditional on children’s school readiness. If it is found that moderated mediation exists for overactive children with low school readiness, children who present both of these characteristics at the beginning of the preschool year should be provided with preventative support.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005140
Format
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The friends they have and the friends they want: desired friendship across the transition into adolescence
Title
The friends they have and the friends they want: desired friendship across the transition into adolescence.
Creator
Bortman, Gilly, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Previous studies of desired friendship have assessed desired friends with unilateral nominations (when one child chooses another child as a friend, but that friend nomination is not reciprocated). This calls into question the validity of findings suggesting that children want to be friends with others who differ from themselves, but befriend similar others by default (Sijtsema, Lindenberg, & Veenstra, 2010). The current study concerns desired friendships among 195 girls and 147 boys in Grades...
Show morePrevious studies of desired friendship have assessed desired friends with unilateral nominations (when one child chooses another child as a friend, but that friend nomination is not reciprocated). This calls into question the validity of findings suggesting that children want to be friends with others who differ from themselves, but befriend similar others by default (Sijtsema, Lindenberg, & Veenstra, 2010). The current study concerns desired friendships among 195 girls and 147 boys in Grades 4 through 6. Two hypotheses were tested. The first hypothesis was that children will not choose the same unilateral and desired friends. The second hypothesis was that children will be more similar to their reciprocal friends than to their unilateral and desired friends. Questionnaires measured desired friendship, friendship, and child characteristics. Both hypotheses were supported. However, there were group-level differences. The importance of using desired friend nominations to measure desired friends is discussed.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004180, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004180
Subject Headings
Friendship -- Social aspects, Friendship in adolescence, Friendship in children, Interpersonal relations
Format
Document (PDF)
Dyadic computer programming instruction for middle school students: friendship promotes learning
Title
Dyadic computer programming instruction for middle school students: friendship promotes learning.
Creator
Hartl, Amy C., DeLay, Dawn, Denner, Jill, Werner, Linda, Laursen, Brett, Richmond, Ashley D., Dirghangi, Shrija R., Hiatt, Cody, Dickson, Daniel J., Bortman, Gilly, Shawcross, Lauren, Graduate College
Date Issued
2013-04-12
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361309
Subject Headings
Friendship, Learning
Format
Document (PDF)