Help-seeking and helping behavior in children as a function of psychosocial competence

Tyler, Forrest B.; Varma, Meera

doi:10.1016/0193-3973(88)90025-1

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

1988

DOI: 10.1016/0193-3973(88)90025-1

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Help-seeking and helping behavior in children as a function of psychosocial competence

Forrest B. Tyler

Meera Varma

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Social network, interpersonal concerns and help-seeking in primary grade school children as a function of sex, performance and economic status

Vincent‐Salomon

Strobel

1997

Eur J Psychol Educ

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Three hundred thirty primary grade school children between 9 and 13 years ofage participated in a study oftheir social network, interperonal concerns, and help-seeking behavior, as a function of sex, school performance and economic status. Girls showed more affective association and looked for help more readily than boys. Children with poor academic performance had difficulties in forming social relationships, were less sensitive of the social consequences of their behavior and enjoyed less supportfrom friends, their immediate family and even animals. Results in general were most unfavorable for economically disadvantaged boys. Various strategies to counteract the negative effects of poor school performance are discussed.

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Social network, interpersonal concerns and help-seeking in primary grade school children as a function of sex, performance and economic status

Vincent‐Salomon

Strobel

1997

Eur J Psychol Educ

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Black Racial Identity and Psychosocial Competence: A Preliminary Study

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DeSole²,

Sicalides

et al. 1997

Journal of Black Psychology

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This study investigated whether Black racial identity attitudes predict psychosocial competence as defined by Tyler's tridimensional model. In particular, two aspects of Tyler's model of psychosocial competence were examined: self-attitudes and behavioral attitudes. Participants in this study were 103 (65 females, 38 males) Black undergraduates who completed the Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale, the Behavioral Attributes of Psychosocial Competence Scale, and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. The study found gender differences in racial identity attitudes for the sample. However, multiple regression analyses found that Black racial identity attitudes are not associated with one's sense of psychosocial competence. Although the results were not significant, analyses of individual / weights within the regression equations suggested that the influence of racial identity attitudes on psychosocial competence may operate differently for men and women.

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Psychosocial Com peten ce in Developing Countries

Tyler

1991

Psychology and Developing Societies

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This paper employs the concept of individual psychosocial competence to provide an organising framework for understanding the multiple ways in which people exercise choice and autonomy in conducting their lives. The components of psychosocial com petence are discussed with a focus on the nesting contexts of overall life milieus which define ethnic validity imbeddedness and the parameters of an individual's life. Illus trative research reflecting different points in the human life span are presented. Evidence is found for consistency in the patterns of competence in the different cultural, racial, religious and age groups investigated. The studies demonstrate the role of ecological and life stage variables in psychosocial functioning and the usefulness of the ethnic validity based psychosocial competence framework for understanding mastery and well-being in different societies and cultures.

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Help-seeking and helping behavior in children as a function of psychosocial competence

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Social network, interpersonal concerns and help-seeking in primary grade school children as a function of sex, performance and economic status

Social network, interpersonal concerns and help-seeking in primary grade school children as a function of sex, performance and economic status

Black Racial Identity and Psychosocial Competence: A Preliminary Study

Psychosocial Com peten ce in Developing Countries

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