About the Asian Development BankADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members-49 from the region.Its main instruments for helping its developing member countries are policy dialogue, loans, equity investments, guarantees, grants, and technical assistance.
Second and fifth graders (n = 120) from five sociometric status groups were individu ally interviewed for their attributional, emotional, and behavioral responses to hypo thetical social encounters with same-sex and same-grade known peers who also rep resented five sociometric statuses. Rejected children usually elicited more negative feelings, and second graders generally responded more negatively than did fifth grad ers, to nonambiguous situations when a known peer behaved appropriately. Gender differences were found in children's social information processing. Popular and ne glected girls had more negative attributions and emotions than did their male so ciometric counterparts. Neglected girls appear to be at high risk for deficient process ing of social information. Implications for social skills training are discussed.
The purpose of this paper was to review the methodological rigor and clinical implications of behavior modification studies in which social skills have been taught to socially deficient children. Thirty two studies were reviewed. The following four treatment approaches were identified and reviewed: adult contingent attention; peer-mediated strategies; modeling; and treatment packages. The clinical merits and limitation of each approach are discussed. Identification and possible target behaviors for neglected and rejected children are outlined. It appears however that conclusions are not warranted at this time about the relative effectiveness of the four treatment strategies. Research issues such as subject selection and the need to document that skills acquired during training are associated with relevant outcome measures are discussed. Finally, suggestions for future social skills studies are offered.
Abstract Classification difficulties have hindered research in the area of sexual deviations. The specific enumeration of groups allows for the development of assessment and treatment procedures designed specifically for each group. This necessitates a comprehensive assessment of subjects, as well as the inclusion of a variety of control groups. The present study attempted to classify convicted rapists and child molesters, as well as three different control gioups, based on information obtained from a variety of assessment sources. Results indicated that behavioral measures combined with life history data can accurately classify subjects well above chance rates. Fairly accurate classification was obtained for three of the five groups, with some difficulties differentiating rapists from non-sex offender inmates. These results point to the need for a comprehensive assessment model, and additional research necessary to more clearly differentiate among the groups.
The purpose of this study was to assess popular, intermediary, and unpopular children's self-perceptions of their popularity status and their global perceptions of other children. In Phase 1, 42 fourth- and fifth-grade children were chosen as either popular, intermediary, or unpopular, using a positive peer nomination and a peer rating scale. In order to indicate their self-perceptions of their popularity status, the children guessed the number of nominations and mean peer ratings they would receive. In Phase 2, in order to assess how the children would perceive unknown peers, 24 fourth- and fifth-grade children from another school were chosen to be observed on videotape interacting in role-play scenes and a staged peer encounter. The children acting as judges immediately rated each child for degree of likability and, after viewing all the tapes, listed objective behaviors that they felt influenced their judgments. Results from Phase 1 indicated that all three groups representing the three levels of popularity status were aware of their social status. Results from Phase 2 indicated that popular children rated other children as more likable than did intermediary or unpopular judges. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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