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Situational approach to the assessment of social competence in children.

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This article is published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.The article was published on 1985-06-01. It has received 255 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social competence & Competence (human resources).

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A review and reformulation of social information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment.

TL;DR: In this article, the relation between social information processing and social adjustment in childhood is reviewed and interpreted within the framework of a reformulated model of human performance and social exchange, which proves to assimilate almost all previous studies and is a useful heuristic device for organizing the field.
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Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups

TL;DR: In this paper, a developmental perspective of peer interactions, relationships, and groups is presented covering the periods of infancy, toddlerhood, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, and methods and measures pertaining to the study of children's peer experiences are described.
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Social Information‐Processing Mechanisms in Reactive and Proactive Aggression

TL;DR: Theories of aggressive behavior and ethological observations in animals and children suggest the existence of distinct forms of reactive (hostile) and proactive (instrumental) aggression, but groups of reactive aggressive, proactive aggressive, and nonaggressive children were identified and hypotheses were tested.
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Peer rejection and social information-processing factors in the development of aggressive behavior problems in children.

TL;DR: Early aggression moderated the effect of rejection, such that rejection exacerbated antisocial development only among children initially disposed toward aggression.
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Hostile attribution of intent and aggressive behavior: a meta-analysis.

TL;DR: A robust significant association between hostile attribution of intent and aggressive behavior was found and the importance of understanding moderators of effect size for theory development is stressed.
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A Coefficient of agreement for nominal Scales

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a procedure for having two or more judges independently categorize a sample of units and determine the degree, significance, and significance of the units. But they do not discuss the extent to which these judgments are reproducible, i.e., reliable.
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Dimensions and types of social status: A cross-age perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the sociometric status of children was conceptualized in terms of independent dimensions of social preference and social impact, and peer perceptual correlates of these dimensions were investigated with children in Grades 3, 5, and 8.
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Behavioral antecedents of peer social status.

TL;DR: Dodge et al. as discussed by the authors observed the development of sociometric status in children's peer groups over time and found that popular, rejected, neglected, controversial, and average boys were identified according to previously established criteria.
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