Brief intervention to encourage empathic discipline cuts suspension rates in half among adolescents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 5221-5226

  Okonofua, Jason A ^a   Paunesku, David ^a   Walton, Gregory M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discipline; Empathy; Respect; School suspensions; Teacher student relationships

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SELF CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TEACHER; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN RELATION; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; EMPATHY; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACULTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY, ADOLESCENT; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84966331031     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523698113     Document Type: Article

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