Research on bullying has increased dramatically worldwide, from only 62 citations in
PsycINFO from 1900–1990, to 289 in the 1990s, to 562 from 2000–2004. Much has been …

Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we
are. It covers a range of topics central to personality and developmental psychology. The …

This study addresses not only influence and selection of friends as sources of similarity in
alcohol use, but also peer processes leading drinkers to be chosen as friends more often …

Aggressive children are known to have friends. However, less is known about the impact of
aggression on friendship development and how this can differ for overt and relational (ie, the …

The influence of using substances with friends on future individual use was examined in the
context of parental monitoring rules and the ecology of peer activities. A one-year …

This study tested the hypothesis that values, abstract goals serving as guiding life principles,
become relatively important predictors of adolescents' self‐reported violent behavior in …

Studies reporting sociometric assessments based on nominations have been characterized
by important methodological inconsistencies when conducted in the middle school context …

This study evaluated the extent to which fourth‐grade students (M age= 8.62) select and are
influenced by their peers' aggressive and prosocial behavior and the extent to which intra …

The present investigation addresses the question of whether certain factors can protect high-
achieving students at risk for being labeled a nerd against devaluation. In 2 studies, 125 and …

En el presente estudio se pretende elaborar un sistema de categorías de los motivos que
los niños utilizan para justificar sus elecciones y rechazos. Con las respuestas emitidas en …