Children's Interpersonal Skills and School-Based Relationships

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 181-206

  Ladd, Gary W ^a   Kochenderfer Ladd, Becky ^a   Rydell, Ann Margret ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adjusting to classroom demands challenging tasks, children encounter in childhood; Child by environment model links to school adjustment; Child level factors, two behavioral propensities acting in aggressive or withdrawn manner among classmates; Children's behavior and relational experiences in classrooms lasting or temporary effects on their school adjustment; Children's cognitive and linguistic skills as precursors of school adjustment; Children's interpersonal skills and school based relationships; Classroom teacher child relations; Environment level factors; Moderator models, children's behavior contingent upon types of peer or teacher child relations; Peer rejection's effects on children's school engagement pervasive within school context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857641858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390933.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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