Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from October 2007

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from October 2007

Moving away or fitting in? Understanding shyness in Chinese children.(Report)
October 1, 2007... This paper reports on three studies of shy behavior in Mainland Chinese children. In Study 1 (N = 107, M age = 10.05), a Chinese Shyness Scale (CSS) was developed based on Chinese teachers' open-ended descriptions of children's shy behavior. In...

Peer relations at school entry: sex differences in the outcomes of foster care.(Report)
October 1, 2007... Converging evidence indicates that maltreated foster children have more behavior problems and poorer peer relations than nonmaltreated, biologically reared youths. However, it is unclear whether deficits in peer relations operate independently...

Monthly changes in the composition of friendship networks in early adolescence.(Report)
October 1, 2007... Short-term stability in adolescents' self-reported friendship networks was examined as a function of (1) participants' gender, (2) friendship status (best vs. secondary), (3) friendship gender composition (same sex vs. opposite sex), and (4)...

The mediating and moderating effects of teacher preference on the relations between students' social behaviors and peer acceptance.(Report)
October 1, 2007... Tested on a sample of 1,365 Hong Kong primary school students from five grades, teacher preference or the extent to which the classroom teacher likes a child in the class was found to both mediate and, to a lesser extent, moderate the relations...

Impression formation and modifiability: testing a theoretical model.(Report)
October 1, 2007... This study proposed and tested a developmental model of impression formation based on observed behavior, prior expectancies, and additional incongruent information. Participants were 51 kindergartners, 53 second graders, and 104 college...