Sentences with phrase «girls than boys engaged»

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The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

Girls start using gestures sooner than boys, and engage in social games more readily.

This latter finding is especially important, as past research has shown that boys of this age typically engage in more vigorous physical activity than girls.»

The new research is finding that autistic girls may display fewer repetitive behaviors than boys and tend to be more social, verbal, and engaged.

Girls tend to camouflage their autism symptoms more and engage differently with peers and adults than autistic boys, she says.

RW: In general, girls arrive in kindergarten far more ready than boys to engage the verbal - rich curriculum that awaits them.

Anecdotally, it appears that girls are more inclined to engage in cyberbullying than boys.

Findings show that, generally, girls self - report as being more engaged than boys, White students and Asian American students are more engaged than other races across all three dimensions, students in advanced classes are more engaged, non-low-income students report more engagement, and students who begin and stay at their high school starting in the ninth grade are higher across the dimensions of engagement.

First, with respect to the percentage of teenagers who have sent or posted nude or semi-nude pictures or video of themselves, 20 percent of those surveyed reported that they engaged in such activity, with slightly more teenage girls (22 percent) than boys (18 percent) admitting doing so.

How best to structure these is an open question; recent findings from Rites of Passage, an early intervention programme for Aboriginal young people which includes resilience - building camps and increasing access to mental health services, suggest that boys may be more difficult than girls to engage in social and emotional well - being programmes (Robinson R, Schuster L, Williamson A. Rites of Passage: evaluation if a pilot study if an early intervention program for Aboriginal young people.

The brains of males and females could be structured differently (nature); boys could receive more encouragement from adults to engage in activities that promote spatial skills (environment); or boys could have an innate preference for such activities and improve their abilities through greater practice than girls, who prefer other activities (interaction).

In addition, girls seek out and engage in child - care, play parenting and other domestic activities (e.g., playing house)-- with younger children or child substitutes, such as dolls — much more frequently than do same - age boys (Pitcher & Schultz, 1983), as is the case with many other species of primate (Nicolson, 1987).»

On the basis of a large meta - analysis, Card et al. -LRB-[2008]-RRB- concluded that although girls seem to engage significantly more in indirect aggression than boys, this difference is trivial in magnitude.

In observation studies that investigated peer deviancy training among both boys and girls, female dyads engaged in deviant talk less often, and were rated as more mutual in the type of talk (e.g., normative or deviant) than male dyads (Dishion, 2000; Piehler & Dishion, 2007), which stresses the importance of assessing gender differences in dyadic peer interactions.