Flag of Canada
Government of Canada Government of Canada
 
Français Contact Us Help Search Canada Site
About Us Services Where You Live Policies & Programs A-Z Index Home
    Home >  Programs and Services > Policies, Planning and Reporting
Services for you

Development of Prosocial Skills - October 2002

  What's New Our Ministers
Media Room Forms
E-Services
Publications Frequently Asked Questions Accessibility Features

  Services for: Individuals Business Organizations Services Where You Live
 

Bibliography

PreviousContents 

Bandura, A. (1989). Social cognitive theory. In R. Vasta (Ed.), Annals of child development (Vol. 6, pp. 1-60). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Barnett, D., Manly, J. T., & Cicchetti, D. (1993). Defining child maltreatment: The interface between policy and research. In D. Cicchetti & S. L. Toth (Eds.), Child abuse, child development, and social policy (pp. 7-73). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Bartko, W.T. & Sameroff, A.J., (1995). A multiple risk model of competence: the protective effects of involvement in organized activities. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Beall, A. E. (1993). A social constructionist view of gender. In A. E Beall & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The psychology of gender (pp. 127-147). New York: Guilford Press.

Bear, G. G., & Rys, G. S. (1994). Moral reasoning, classroom behavior, and sociometric status among elementary school children. Developmental Psychology, 30, 633-638.

Belsky, J., Youngblade, L. Rovine, M., & Volling, B. (1991). Patterns of marital change and parent-child interaction. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53, 487-498.

Bernard, B. (1995). Fostering resiliency in kids: Protective factors in the family, school, and community. Unpublished Manuscript.

Boivin, M., Hymel, S., & Bukowski, W. M. (1995). The roles of social withdrawal, peer rejection, and victimisation by peers in predicting loneliness and depressed mood in children. Development and Psychopathology, 7, 765-785.

Bradley, R.H., Caldwell, B.M., Rock, S.L., Ramey, C.T., Barnard, K.E., Gray, C., Hammond, M.A., Mitchell, S., Bottfried, A.W., Siegel, L., & Johnson, D.L. (1989). Home environment and cognitive development in the first 3 years of life: A collaborative study involving six sites and three ethnic groups in North America. Developmental Psychology, 25, 217-235.

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1989). Ecological systems theory. In R. Vasta (Ed.), Annals of child development: Vol. 6 Six theories of child development: Revised formulations and current issues (pp. 187-249). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1993). The ecology & cognitive development: research models and fugitive findings. In R.H. Woznick & K. Fisher (Eds.), Scientific environments (pp.3-44). Hillsdale, NH: Erlbaum.

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1995). Developmental ecology through space and time: A future perspective. In P. Moen, G.H. Elden, Jr., & K. Luschen (Eds.), Examining lives context: Perspectives on the ecology & human development. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

Bronfenbrenner, U., (1997). Ecological models of human development. In M. Gauvain & M. Cole (Eds.), Readings on the Development of Children (2nd Ed., pp. 37-43). New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.

Bronfenbrenner, U., & Morris, P. A. (1998). The ecology of developmental processes. In W. Damon & R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of Child psychology: Vol. 1. Theoretical modes of human development (5th ed., pp. 993-1028). New York: Wiley.

Bryk, A. S., & Raudenbush, S. W. (1992). Hierarchical linear models: Applications and data analysis methods. Newbury Park, CA, USA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Bus, A.G; van IJzendoorn, M.H, & Pellegrini, A.D. (1995) Joint book reading makes for success in learning to read: A meta-analysis on intergenerational transmission of literacy. Review of Educational Research, 65, 1-21.

Canadian Council on Social Development (1997). The Progress of Canada's Children-1997. Ottawa: Canadian Council on Social Development.

Caprara, G. V., Barbaranelli, C., Pastorelli, C., Bandura, A., & Zimbardo, P. G. (2000). Prosocial foundations of children's academic achievement. Psychological Science, 11, 302-306.

Caprara, G. V., & Pastorelli, C. (1993). Early emotional instability, prosocial behaviour, and aggression: Some methodological aspects. European Journal of Personality, 7, 19-36.

Caspi, A., & Silva, P. A. (1995). Temperamental qualities at age three predict personality traits in young adulthood: Longitudinal evidence from a birth cohort. Child Development, 66, 486-498.

Chess, S., & Thomas, A. (1984). Origins and evolution of behaviour disorders: from infancy to early adult life. New York: Runner/Mazel.

Chess, S., & Thomas, A. (1990). The New York Longitudinal Study (NYLS): The young adult periods. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 557-561.

Chess, S., & Thomas, A. (1992). Interactions between offspring and parents in development. In B. Tizard, & V. Varma (Eds.), Vulnerability and resiliency in human development (pp. 72-87). Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (1997). Transactional ecological systems in developmental psychopathology. In S.S. Luthar, J. A. Burack, D. Cicchetti, & J. R. Weisz (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology: Perspectives on adjustment, risk, and disorder (pp. 317-349). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Cohn, D.A. (1990). Child-mother attachment of six-year-olds and social competence at school. Child Development, 56, 1299-1313.

Coie, J. D., Lochman, J. E., Terry, R., & Hyman, C. (1992). Predicting early adolescent disorder from childhood aggression and peer rejection. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 60, 783-792.

Crick, N. R. (1996). The role of overt aggression, relational aggression, and prosocial behavior in the prediction of children's future social adjustment. Child Development, 67(5), 2317-2327.

Crick, N. R., & Dodge, K. A. (1994). A review of and reformulation of social-information-processing mechanisms in children's social adjustment. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 74-101.

Crick, N. R., & Grotpeter J. (1995). Relational aggression, gender, and social psychological adjustment. Child Development, 66, 710-722.

Cummings, E. M. (1994). Marital conflict and children's functioning. Social Development, 3, 16-36.

Dekovic, M., & Janssens, J. M. A. M. (1992). Parents' child-rearing style and child's sociometric status. Developmental Psychology, 28, 925-932.

Dodge, K. A. (1986). A social information processing model of social competence in children. In M. Perlmutter (Ed.), Minnesota Symposium on Child psychology, Vol. 18: Cognitive perspectives on children's social and behavioral development (pp. 77-125). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Dodge, K. A., Petit, G.S., & Bates, J. E. (1994). Effects of physical maltreatment on the development of peer relations. Development and Psychopathology, 6, 43-55.

Donovan, W. L., Leavitt, L. A., & Walsh, R. O. (1990). Maternal self-efficacy: Illusory control and its effects on susceptibility to learned helplessness. Child Development, 61, 1638-1647.

DuBois, D. L., & Felner, R. D. (1996). The quadripartite model of social competence: Theory and applications to clinical intervention. In M. A. Reineke, F. M. Dattilio, & A. Freeman (Eds.), Cognitive therapy with children and adolescents (pp. 124-152). New York: Guilford.

Dunst, C.J. (1993). Implications of risk and opportunity factors for assessment and intervention practices. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 13, 143-153.

Dunst, C., & Trivette, C. (1990). Assessment of social support in early intervention programs. In S.J. Meisels & J.P. Shonkoff (Eds). Handbook of early childhood intervention, (pp. 326-349). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dunn, J. (2001). The development of children's conflict and prosocial behaviour: Lessons from research on social understanding and gender. In J. Hill, B. Maughan (Eds.), Conduct disorders in children and adolescence. Cambridge child and adolescent psychiatry (pp. 49-66). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Easterbrooks, M.A., & Lamb, M.E. (1979). The relationship between quality of infant-mother attachment and infant competence in initial encounters with peers. Child Development, 50, 380-387.

Eberly, M. B., & Montemayor, R. (1998). Doing good deeds: An examination of adolescent prosocial behavior in the context of parent-adolescent relationships. Journal of Adolescent Research, 13, 403-432.

Eisenberg, N., Fabes, R. A., Murphy, B. C., Shepard, S., Guthrie, I. K., Mazsk, P., Poulin, R., & Jones, S. (1999). Prediction of elementary school children's socially appropriate and problem behavior from anger reactions at age 4-6 years. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 20, 119-142.

Fagan, T. K., & Wise, P. S. (2001). School psychology: Past, present, and future. Bethesda, MD: NASP.

Felner, R. D., Lease, A. M., & Phillips, R. S. C. (1990). Social competence and the language of adequacy as a subject matter for psychology: A quadripartite tri-level framework. In T. P. Gullotta, G. R. Adams, & R. Montemayor (Eds.), The development of social competence in adolescence (pp. 245-264). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Franz, C.E, McClelland, D.C, & Weinberger, J. (1991). Childhood antecedents of conventional social accomplishment in midlife adults: A 36-year prospective study. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 60, 586-595.

Goodman, S. H., Brogan, D., Lynch, M. E., & Fielding, B. (1993). Social and emotional competence in children of depressed mothers. Child Development, 64, 516-531.

Gottman, J. M., & Katz, L. F. (1989). Effects of marital discord on young children's peer interaction and health. Developmental Psychology, 25, 373-381.

Gresham, F. M., & Reschly, D. J. (1988). Issues in the conceptualization, classification, and assessment of social skills in the mildly handicapped. In T. R. Kratochwill (Ed.), Advances in school psychology, Vol. 6 (pp. 203-247). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Guralnik, M.J. (1993). Second generation research on the effectiveness of early intervention. Early Education and Development, 4, 366-378.

Health Canada (1999). Healthy development of children and youth: The role of the determinants of health. Ottawa, Ontario: Health Canada.

Hernandez, D.J. (1997). Child development and the social demography of childhood. Child Development, 68, 149-169.

Honig, A.S. (1986). Stress and coping in children: II. Interpersonal family relationships. Young Children, 41, 47-59.

Howes, P., & Cicchetti, D. (1993). A family/relational perspective on maltreating families: Parallel processes across systems and social policy implications. In D. Cicchetti & S. L. Toth (Eds.), Child abuse, child development and social policy (pp. 249-300). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Hupp, S. D. A., & Reitman, D. (1999). Improving sports skills and sportsmanship in children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 21(3), 35-51.

Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., Marquis, J., & Green, S. B. (1999). How young children spend their time: Televising and other activities. Developmental Psychology, 35, 912-925.

Katz, L. F., Kramer, L., & Gottman, J. M. (1992). Conflict and emotions in marital, sibling, and peer relationships. In C. U. Shantz & W. W. Hartup (Eds.), Conflict in child and adolescent development (pp. 122-149). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kershner, J. G., Cohen, N. J. (1992). Maternal depressive symptoms and child functioning. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 13, 51-63.

Kochanska, G., & Kuczynski, L. (1991). Maternal autonomy granting: Predictors of normal and depressed mothers' compliance and noncompliance with the requests of five-year-olds. Child Development, 62, 1449-1459.

Kumpfer, K.L. (1999). Factors and processes contributing to resilience: The resilience framework. In M.D. Glantz, J.L. Johnson et al. (Eds.), Resilience and development: Positive life adaptations (pp. 179-224). New York: Plenum Press.

Lefebvre, P. & Merrigan, P. (1998). Family background, family income, maternal work and child development. Applied Research Branch Strategic Policy: Human Resources Development Canada. Working paper, W-98-12E.

Lindahl, K.M. (1998). Family process variables and children's disruptive behavior problems. Journal of Family Psychology, 12, 420-436.

Lytton, H. (2000). Toward a model of family environmental and child-biological influences on development. Developmental Review, 20, 150-179.

Main, M., Kaplan, N., & Cassidy, J. (1985). Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the level of representation. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50 (1-2, Serial No. 209).

Mangham, C., McGrath, P., Reid, G., & Stewart, M. (1994). Resiliency: Relevance to health promotion. Detailed analysis. Halifax: Atlantic Health Promotion Research Center, Dalhousie University.

Martin, R. P., Noyes, J., Wisenbaker, J., & Huttunen, M. O. (1999). Prediction of early childhood negative emotionality and inhibition from maternal distress during pregnancy. Merrill palmer Quarterly, 45, 370-391.

Masten, A., & Coatworth, J. (1998). The development of competence in favourable and unfavourable environments: Lessons from research on successful children. American Psychologist, 53, 205-220.

McCubbin, H.I., McCubbin, M.A., & Thompson, A.I. (1993). Resiliency in families. In T.H. Brubaker (Ed.), Family relations: Challenges for the future (pp. 153-177). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Merrell, K. W., & Wolfe, T. M. (1998). The relationship of teacher-rated social skills deficits and ADHD characteristics among kindergarten-age children. Psychology in the Schools, 35(2), 101-110.

Miller, N. B., Cowan, P. A., Cowan, C. P., Hetherington, E.M., & Clingempeel, W. G. (1993). Externalizing in preschoolers and early adolescents: A cross-study replication of a family model. Developmental Psychology, 29, 3-18.

Mussen, P. H., & Eisenberg-Berg, N. (1977). Roots of caring, sharing, and helping: The development of prosocial behavior in children. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.

National Forum on Health (1997). National Forum on Health: Determinants of Health Working Group Synthesis Report. Ottawa, Ontario: Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada. Cat. No.: H21-126\3-1997E.

Newcomb, A., Bukowski, W. M., & Pattee, L. (1993). Children's peer relations: A meta-analytic review of popular, rejected, and neglected, controversial, and average sociometric status. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 99-128.

Parker, J., & Asher, S. R. (1987). Peer relations and later personal adjustment: Are low accepted children at-risk? Psychological Bulletin, 102, 375-389.

Pellegrini, D.S., (1990). Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors in Childhood. Journal of developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 11(4), 201-209.

Pettit, G. S., Harrist, A. W., Bates, J. E., & Dodge, K. A. (1991). Family interaction, social cognition and children's subsequent relations with peers in kindergarten. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 8, 383-402.

Posner, J. K., & Vandell, D. L. (1999). After-school activities and the development of low-income urban children: A longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 35(3), 868-879.

Power, C., Manor, O., & Fox, A.J. (1991). Health and class: The early years. London: Chapman & Hall.

Reynolds, A.J., Mavrogenes, N.A., Bezruczko, N., & Hafemann, M. (1996). Cognitive and family-support mediators of preschool effectiveness: A confirmatory analysis. Child Development, 67, 1119-1140.

Rinaldi, C. M., Brown, A., Ross, S., Heath, N. L., & Smith, T. (1996). Exceptionality and risk for depression: An examination of the literature. Exceptionality Education Canada, 6, 159-182.

Rose, A. J., & Asher, S. R. (1999). Children's goals and strategies in response to conflicts within a friendship. Developmental Psychology, 35, 69-79.

Rose-Krasnor, L. (1997). The nature of social competence: A theoretical review. Social Development, 6, 111-135.

Rubin, K. H., & Krasnor, L. (1986). Social-cognitive and social behavioral perspectives on problem solving. In M. Perlmutter (Ed.), The Minnesota Symposia on Child psychology, Vol. 18: Cognitive perspectives on children's social and behavioral development (pp. 1-18). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Rubin, K. H., & Rose-Krasnor, L. (1992). Interpersonal problem solving. In V. B. Van Hassett & M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of social development (pp. 283-323). New York: Plenum.

Rushton, J. P. (1975). Generosity in children: Immediate and long-term effects of modelling, preaching, and moral judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31, 459-466.

Rutter, M. (1987). Psychosocial resilience and protective factors. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 57(3): 316-331.

Rys, G. S., & Bear, G. G. (1997). Relational aggression and peer relations: Gender and developmental issues. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43, 87-106.

Sameroff, A.J., & Chandler, M.J. (1975). Reproductive risk and the continuum of caretaking causality. In F.D. Horowitz (Ed.), Review of child development research. (Vol. 4, pp. 187-244). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sameroff, A., & Fiese, B.H. (1990). Transactional regulation and early intervention. In S.J. Mikels & J.P. Shonkoff (Eds), Handbook of early childhood intervention (pp. 119-149). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sameroff A.J. & Fiese, B.H. (2000) Models of Development and Developmental Risk. In Charles, H. Zeanah, Jr. (Ed.). Handbook of Infant Mental Health Second Edition. Guilford Press. N.Y.

Sameroff, A. J., Seifer, R., Baldwin, A., & Baldwin, C. (1993). Stability of intelligence from preschool to adolescence: The influence of social and family risk factors. Child Development, 64, 80-97.

Segrin, C. (2000). Social skills deficits associated with depression. Clinical Psychology Review, 20, 379-403.

Semrud-Clikeman, M., & Schafer, V. (2000). Social and emotional competence in children with ADHD and/or learning disabilities. Journal of Psychotherapy in Independent Practice, 1(4), 3-19.

Snijders, T. A. B. & Bosker, R. J. (1999). Multilevel analysis. London: Sage

Sroufe, L. A., Cooper, R. G., DeHart, B. B. (1996). Child development: Its nature and course (3rd ed.). New York: Knopf.

Stanovich, K. E. (1986). Matthew effects in reading: Some consequences of individual differences in the acquisition of literacy. Reading Research Quarterly, 21, 360-407.

Stormshak, E. A., Bierman, K. L., McMahon, R. J., Lengua, L. J. (2000). Parenting practices and child disruptive behavior problems in early elementary school. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 29, 17-29.

Thomas, A., & Grimes, J. (1995). Best practices in school psychology. Washington, DC: NASP.

Tremblay, R.E., Masse, B., Perron, D., & LeBlanc, M. (1992). Disruptive behavior, poor school achievement, delinquent behavior, and delinquent personality: Longitudinal analyses. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 60, 64-72.

Vaughn, S., Erlbaum, B., & Boardman, A. G. (2001). The social functioning of students with learning disabilities: Implications for inclusion. Exceptionality, 9, 47-66.

Vaughn, S., & Hogan, A. (1990). Social competence and learning disabilities: A prospective study In H. L. Swanson & B. K. Keogh (Eds.), Learning disabilities: Theoretical and research issues (pp. 175-191). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Volling, B. L., & Belsky, J. (1992). The contribution of mother-child and father-child relationships to the quality of sibling relationships: A longitudinal study. Child Development, 63, 1209-1222.

Warden, D., Christie, D., Kerr, C., & Low, J. (1996). Children's prosocial and antisocial behavior, as perceived by children, parents, and teachers. Educational Psychology, 16, 365-378.

Wemer, E. E. (1996). How children become resilient: Observations and cautions. Resiliency in Action, 1, 18-28.

Wentzel, K. R., & McNamara, C. C. (1999). Interpersonal relationships, emotional distress, and prosocial behavior in middle school. Journal of Early Adolescence, 19, 114-125.

Wilgosh, L., Scorgie, K., & Fleming, D. (2000). Effective life management in parents of children with disabilities: A survey replication and extension. Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 28, 1-14.

Williams, S., Anderson, J., McGee, R., & Silva, P.A. (1990); Risk factors for behavioural and emotional disorder in preadolescent children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29, 413-419.

World Health Organization (1986). Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Ottawa, Canada.

Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Murphy, K. C., St. Peters, M., Piñon, M., Scantlin, R., & Kotler, J. (2001). The relations of early television viewing to school readiness and vocabulary of children from low-income families: The early window project. Child Development, 72(5), 1347-1366.

Wright, J. C., & Huston, A. C. (1995). Effects of educational TV viewing of lower income preschoolers on academic skills, school readiness, ands school adjustment one to three years later. Lawrence, KS: Center for Research on the Influences of Television on Children.

Yoshikawa, H. (1995). Long-term effects of early childhood programs on social outcomes and delinquency. The Future of Children, 5(3), 51-75.

Zimmerman, J. D. (1996). A prosocial media strategy: "Youth Against Violence: Choose to De-Fuse." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 66(3), 354-362.

PreviousContents 
     
   
Last modified : 2005-01-11 top Important Notices