Predicting School Adjustment in Early Elementary School: Impact of Teacher‐Child Relationship Quality and Relational Classroom Climate

2009 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelien Buyse ◽  
Karine Verschueren ◽  
Pieter Verachtert ◽  
Jan Van Damme
Author(s):  
Lydia Laninga-Wijnen ◽  
Yvonne H. M. van den Berg ◽  
Tim Mainhard ◽  
Antonius H. N. Cillessen

AbstractAlthough prior research has indicated that peer norms for aggression enhance the spread of aggression in classrooms, it is unclear to date how these norms relate to students’ classroom climate perceptions and school adjustment. Aggressive descriptive norms reflect the average aggression of all students in classrooms, whereas aggressive popularity norms represent the extent to which aggressive behavior relates to popularity among peers. This study examined the role of aggressive descriptive and popularity norms in the classroom climate perceptions (cooperation, conflict, cohesion, isolation) and school adjustment (feelings of belonging; social, academic, and general self-esteem) of popular, well-liked, and victimized children. Self-reported and peer-nominated data were obtained from 1511 children (Mage = 10.60 years, SD = 0.50; 47.2% girls) from 58 fifth-grade classrooms. The results indicated that aggressive descriptive and popularity norms both matter in elementary school, but in diverging ways. Specifically, aggressive descriptive norms—rather than popularity norms—contributed to negative classroom climate perceptions irrespective of students’ social position. In addition, whereas descriptive norms contributed to between-classroom variations in some aspects of school adjustment, aggressive popularity norms related to increased school maladjustment for popular and victimized children specifically. Thus, aggressive descriptive norms and popularity norms matter in complementary ways for children’s classroom climate perceptions and adjustment in elementary education.


2021 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 101265
Author(s):  
Carlos Valiente ◽  
Leah D. Doane ◽  
Sierra Clifford ◽  
Kevin J. Grimm ◽  
Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea G. Backscheider ◽  
Susan A. Gelman

ABSTRACTPrevious tasks have shown that preschool and early elementary school-children typically have trouble learning and identifying homonyms (Peters & Zaidel, 1980; Mazzocco, 1989). It is possible that a one-to-one mapping assumption or a lack of metalinguistic skills makes homonym learning and identification particularly difficult. In three experiments we examined a total of 60 three-year-olds' ability to pick out homonym pairs, and the extent to which they realize that although homonyms share a common label, they represent two different categories. In Experiment 1 subjects were asked to identify homonym pairs. In Experiment 2, homonym pairs and non-homonym pairs were labelled, then children were asked whether the pairs had the same name, and whether they were the same kind of thing. In Experiment 3 children were shown one-half of each of several homonym and non-homonym pairs, then asked to identify a name match and a category match from a set of pictures. From these experiments we conclude that children have the metalinguistic skills necessary to identify homonym pairs; moreover, they realized that homonyms represent two different categories. Finally, if children have a one-to-one mapping assumption, it is not strong enough to prevent them from acquiring homonyms.


2016 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 1813-1824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol McDonald Connor ◽  
Stephanie L. Day ◽  
Beth Phillips ◽  
Nicole Sparapani ◽  
Sarah W. Ingebrand ◽  
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