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Betts, L.R. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-6147-8089, Rotenberg, K.J. and Trueman, M.,
2009.
An investigation of the impact of young children's self-knowledge of trustworthiness on school adjustment: a test of the realistic self-knowledge and positive illusion models.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27 (2), pp. 405-424.
ISSN 2044-835X
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Abstract
The study aimed to examine the relationship between self-knowledge of trustworthiness and young children’s school adjustment. One hundred and seventy-three (84 male and 89 female) children from school years 1 and 2 in the United Kingdom (mean age 6 years 2 months) were tested twice over one year. Children’s trustworthiness was assessed using: (a) self-report at Time 1 and Time 2, (b) peers’ reports at Time 1 and Time 2, and (c) teacher-reports at Time 2. School adjustment was assessed by child-rated school-liking and the Short-Form Teacher Rating Scale of School Adjustment. Longitudinal quadratic relationships were found between school adjustment and children’s self-knowledge, using peer-reported trustworthiness as a reference: more accurate self-knowledge of trustworthiness predicted increases in school adjustment. Comparable concurrent quadratic relationships were found between teacher-rated school adjustment and children’s self-knowledge, using teacher-reported trustworthiness as a reference, at Time 2. The findings support the conclusion that young children’s psychosocial adjustment is best accounted for by the realistic self-knowledge model (Colvin & Block, 1994).
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Alternative Title: | Self-versus other-knowledge of trustworthiness [running title] | ||||
| Publication Title: | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | ||||
| Creators: | Betts, L.R., Rotenberg, K.J. and Trueman, M. | ||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||
| Date: | 2009 | ||||
| Volume: | 27 | ||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||
| ISSN: | 2044-835X | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | EPrints Services | ||||
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:11 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:21 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9096 |
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