AUTHOR=Passiatore Ylenia , Grimaldi Capitello Teresa , De Stasio Simona , Millioni Michela , Gentile Simonetta , Fiorilli Caterina TITLE=Children’s Mathematics and Verbal Self-concepts and Externalizing Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Peer Rejection at School JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=8 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01912 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01912 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Previous research has found a strong correlation between children’s academic self-concept and their behavioral problems. The present study examined whether children’s peer rejection moderated the relationship between children’s math and verbal self-concepts and their behavioral problems at school. We expected that children’s social competence, as measured by peer rejection, moderated the negative effect of low self-concept on children’s externalizing behaviors. Participants were 173 children (males = 93,