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Early Affiliation and Social Engagement With PeersProspective Risk and Protective Factors for Childhood Depressive BehaviorsWichita State University, lynn.schrepferman{at}wichita.edu
Wichita State University
Wichita State University
Wichita State University The authors of this article sought to determine how poor peer social relationships are related to children's future depressive behaviors. They used direct observations of disengagement in a peer social setting, a peer nomination measure of peer affiliates, and teacher reports of depressive behaviors during kindergarten and first grade to model risk for depressive behaviors in the third/fourth grades. Dependable and enduring peer affiliations in kindergarten were significantly negatively associated with a multi-informant construct of depressive behaviors at the higher grade for both girls and boys. Disengagement was positively related to depressive behaviors for girls but not for boys.
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 14, No. 1,
50-61 (2006) |
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