哈尼族中学生文化认同及其与学校生活满意度的关系

为考察哈尼族中学生文化认同特点及其与学校生活满意度的关系,采用哈尼族青少年学生文化认同问卷和青少年学校生活满意度评定问卷对621名哈尼族中学生施测。结果表明:(1)哈尼族中学生民族文化认同处于中等以上水平,其中族物喜好、民族接纳方面的认同较高,宗教信念、社会俗约的认同较低;在宗教信念、社会俗约、总问卷上,城乡学生的认同差异具有统计学意义,乡镇和农村学生之间无显著性差异;(2)哈尼族中学生文化认同存在年级差异,随年级递升呈下降变化趋势,不同维度表现出非平衡性发展特点,呈分化发展趋势;(3)哈尼族中学生的民族文化认同与学校生活满意度之间存在关联性,对学校生活满意度有显著的正向效用,其中民族接纳、社会俗约分别具有正向和负向预测作用。     

友伴关系与中学生的吸烟行为

友伴关系与中学生吸烟行为有非常直接的关系,然而,对此进行的研究却很少.社会网络结构分析技术的提出使研究者可以同时从友伴相互接纳和友伴地位两个角度对这一问题展开研究.从北京市1所普通中学和1所重点中学选取1091名初一至高三的学生为被试,运用NEGOPY软件包对中学生的友伴关系进行分析,结果发现,友伴相互接纳和友伴地位与中学生的吸烟行为都有显著的关系,为今后对中学生的吸烟行为进行预防和干预提供了非常重要的依据.     

中学生孝道信念的特点及其与亲子依恋和人际适应的关系

采用问卷法对全国六城市共2327名中学生的孝道信念、亲子依恋、人际适应状况(亲社会倾向和人际疏离)进行调查,探讨了中学生孝道信念的特点以及孝道信念、亲子依恋和人际适应间的关系,结果发现:(1)男生的权威性孝道显著高于女生,初中生的互惠性孝道和权威性孝道均显著高于高中生;(2)互惠性孝道与亲社会倾向呈显著正相关,与人际疏离呈显著负相关,权威性孝道与人际适应两维度的相关不显著;(3)互惠性孝道在亲子依恋对人际适应的预测中起部分中介作用。     

Parental Division of Household Labour and Sibling Relationship Quality: Family Relationship Mediators

Research examining antecedents to sibling relationship quality have explored factors such as parenting and temperament (Brody, 1998); however, there has been no previous research on the topic of the current study. The present study used a cross‐informant approach to examine parent–child and marital relationships as potential mediators of links between parents' gendered attitudes and behaviours and sibling relationship quality. One hundred and twenty‐four families with older (M = 7.4 years) and younger (M = 5.2 years) siblings were assessed. Parents reported on division of household labour, gender‐role attitudes and marital satisfaction. Each child reported on sibling relationship quality and parental warmth and hostility. Results revealed a link between more egalitarian division of household labour and more positive sibling relationship quality. Furthermore, this association was not mediated by the marital nor parent–child relationship. We conclude that families with a more egalitarian division of household labour may model positive interactions for siblings. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

School-Based Intervention for Social Skills in Children from Divorced Families

Divorce is an increasingly prevalent occurrence in society that has the potential to result in many adverse short- and long-term consequences for children and their parents. Social skills, such as those with peers, are one of the problems that may emerge for children of divorce. Despite this growing problem, there is a paucity of research available to effectively address the social skills needed to build and maintain positive peer interactions and subsequent relationships in students whose parents are no longer married. It was hypothesized that a social skills training program would be effective in remediating social skill deficits related to building relationships with peers in students from divorced families. The purpose of this study was to employ COPE, a school-based social skills program, to examine the effect on social skills in elementary students whose parents are divorced. Results of the social skills intervention indicated that the treatment was effective for most participants, but generalization of the COPE program had mixed results.     

Career indecision and career exploration among older French adolescents: The specific role of general trait anxiety and future school and career anxiety

This study examined the relationship between two forms of adolescent anxiety, career exploration and career indecision. Two-hundred and forty-two French senior high school students filled out a self-report questionnaire that measured career indecision, frequency of career exploration, general trait anxiety, and fear of failing in one’s academic and occupational careers. The results showed that adolescent career indecision and career exploration were positively and significantly related to general trait anxiety and career anxiety. Nevertheless, career anxiety accounted for an additional part of the variance in career exploration and, to a lesser extent, in career indecision. General trait anxiety accounted for an additional part of the variance in career indecision only. In addition, general trait anxiety and career anxiety mediated the relationship between career indecision and career exploration. The discussion focuses on the role of anxiety (personality trait anxiety or an emotion connected to one’s future) in career development. It also addresses the implications of these results for improving counseling practices.     

Emotion comprehension and attachment: A conversational intervention with school-aged children

IntroductionAs part of the flourishing line of enquiry into children's emotion understanding, we report the results of a conversation-based intervention study aimed at improving participants’ emotion comprehension, and exploring the intervention effect as a function of attachment security.MethodThe study was conducted at school with the participation of 98 second-grade children (mean age: 7 years, 7 months; SD: 3.4 months). Participants were assigned to experimental and control groups that were balanced with respect to attachment security and insecurity as evaluated using the Separation Anxiety Test (SAT). The experimental group was exposed to a conversational intervention, in which short story readings with emotional content were used to stimulate discussion on the nature, causes and regulation of emotion. The children in the control group listened to the same stories, but did not take part in the conversational activity. Children from both groups were individually pre- and post-tested on measures of emotional lexicon (ELT) and emotion comprehension (TEC).ResultsThe training was found to have a significant effect on the emotion comprehension of the children allocated to the experimental group. In addition, non-secure children displayed higher gains in emotion comprehension than secure participants. The implications of the findings for educational and school contexts are discussed.     

The Role of Social–Emotional Mediators on Middle School Students’ Academic Growth as Fostered by an Evidence‐Based Intervention

The authors describe a school counselor intervention delivered to a predominantly Hispanic group of 193 7th‐grade students. Using multilevel modeling, the authors found that participation resulted in greater rates of academic achievement, particularly in math and for students who pretested at lower achievement levels. Results indicated an indirect effect on math achievement for the executive functioning constructs of plan and organize and task completion, but no executive functioning mediators were found for reading or feelings of connectedness.