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Guided by the social-ecological conceptualization of bullying, this thesis examines the implications of classroom and school contexts—that is, students’ shared microsystems—for peer-to-peer bullying and antibullying ...

Very preterm birth poses a long-term risk for social development. The social functioning of very preterm children has been mainly assessed by parents and teachers, although the children’s subjective experience of social ...

The present dissertation examined reading development during elementary school years by means of eye movement tracking. Three different but related issues in this field were assessed. First of all, the development of ...

Affect-biased attention is defined as perceptual preference for an object based on its affective saliency. Affect-biased attention has been suggested to have reciprocal connections with other aspects of social-emotional ...

Bullying refers to aggressive goal-directed behavior that harms another individual within the context of a power imbalance. Bullying has been viewed as a group process. One of main motivation of bullying is to gain social ...

Anesthetic drugs can induce reversible alterations in responsiveness, connectedness and consciousness. The measures based on electroencephalogram (EEG) have marked potential for monitoring the anesthetized state because ...

Prosocial behavior, defined as voluntary actions intended to benefit others (e.g., helping, caring, sharing), has been both positively and negatively associated with peer status—namely, the extent to which individuals are ...

Migrant adolescents often experience elevated levels of mental health difficulties, but also notable resilience. As a primary developmental context, school provides a crucial setting for promoting adaptation and wellbeing, ...

Children with visual impairment and additional disabilities (VIAD) may fail to perceive visual information from their parents’ facial expressions and gestures. In cases of congenital deafblindness (CDB), auditory information ...

Preterm survivors born at 23 and 24 weeks are a growing population. However, the risks for health and developmental consequences increase the earlier a child is born. It is also known that the birth of a child extremely ...