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Accuracy of child event frequency reports
Title
Accuracy of child event frequency reports.
Creator
Dirghangi, Shrija R., Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
The current study assessed whether the accuracy of children’s self-reports of events experienced differs as a function of age and how the question is asked. Additional factors like metamemory and distractibility were assessed. Primary-school students (M= 7.7 years) and middle-school students (M = 9.7 years) completed two different versions of an event frequency measure, two times, at one week intervals. In one of the measures of event frequency, no memory prompts were provided (uncued...
Show moreThe current study assessed whether the accuracy of children’s self-reports of events experienced differs as a function of age and how the question is asked. Additional factors like metamemory and distractibility were assessed. Primary-school students (M= 7.7 years) and middle-school students (M = 9.7 years) completed two different versions of an event frequency measure, two times, at one week intervals. In one of the measures of event frequency, no memory prompts were provided (uncued questionnaire condition), while in the other measure, recall categories for aiding recollections were provided (cued questionnaire condition). Participants’ self-reported event frequencies for the cued and uncued questionnaires were compared with trained observers’ event frequencies for the cued and uncued conditions. Older children reported event frequency more accurately than younger participants. Participants also reported events with greater accuracy with the aid of memory prompts than without, an effect that was especially strong among the younger children. Neither metamemory nor distractibility was accountable for the differences within age groups. The findings suggest that age-related improvements in accuracy of event frequency across the transition into adolescence may, in part, be due to improvements in the ability to recall and recount those events in the absence of memory cues.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004190, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004190
Subject Headings
Cognition in adolescence, Cognition in children, Memory -- Age factors, Memory in adolescence, Memory in children, Metacognition
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Document (PDF)
On the Importance of Being Fun: Over Time Associations Between Perceptions of Fun and Changes in Peer Preference and Popularity
Title
On the Importance of Being Fun: Over Time Associations Between Perceptions of Fun and Changes in Peer Preference and Popularity.
Creator
Dirghangi, Shrija R., Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
In this short- term longitudinal study (N=428), the unique predictive association between the positive peer nominated characteristic of being fun and peer status (peer preference and popularity) was assessed in a sample of fourth through sixth grade students. Concurrent hierarchical regression analyses and longitudinal structural equation modeling analyses found that peer nominated fun positively predicted preference and popularity, after accounting for the contribution of predictors...
Show moreIn this short- term longitudinal study (N=428), the unique predictive association between the positive peer nominated characteristic of being fun and peer status (peer preference and popularity) was assessed in a sample of fourth through sixth grade students. Concurrent hierarchical regression analyses and longitudinal structural equation modeling analyses found that peer nominated fun positively predicted preference and popularity, after accounting for the contribution of predictors potentially confounded with being fun, such as prosocial behavior, academic achievement, relational aggression, and physical aggression. The longitudinal association between fun and preference was qualified by grade in school, such that being fun predicted increases in preference for younger children but not for older children. There were bidirectional associations between peer status and fun; fun predicted increases in peer preference and popularity, but peer preference and popularity also predicted later increases in fun. The findings point to the need to expand existing conceptualizations of the antecedents of peer status beyond known predictors and to examine the developmental shifts in the landscape of children’s peer interactions that make certain characteristics more desirable at different ages.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004690, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004690
Subject Headings
Peer pressure, Popularity, Social acceptance, Social interaction in children, Social status
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)