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...2006). The effect of peer acceptance on achievement may be mediated by the effect of peer acceptance on a student’s engagement in the classroom (Ladd et al., 1999) and academic self-efficacy beliefs (=-=Flook, Repetti, & Ullman, 2005-=-). Effect of retention on social acceptance. The few studies on the effects of retention on peer acceptance have relied on teacher or parent reports or on the child’s own perceptions of peer support r...

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...academic performance in the sixth grade, a prospective association that was mediated by increases in the children’s internalizing symptoms and declines in academic self-confidence in the fifth grade (=-=Flook, Repetti, & Ullman, 2005-=-). The data presented here indicate that both higher negative mood and lower state self-esteem reported in the mornings at home correlate with more reports of both types of negative events at school; ...

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...evels of internalizing problems in the fourth grade predicted increasing troubles with peer acceptance (a composite variable including exclusion, friendlessness, and unpopularity) in the sixth grade (=-=Flook, Repetti, & Ullman, 2005-=-). These findings indicate that social isolation is a consequence as well as a cause of childhood adjustment difficulties. We start from the premise that having a friend is a qualitatively different f...

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... more internalizing problems, such as depression, anxiety, and low self-concepts(Strauss, Forehand, Smith, & Frame, 1986), while concurrently disliking school and performing more poorlysacademically (=-=Flook, Repetti, & Ullman, 2005-=-). Peer relationships offer children opportunitiessto practise key competencies related to interpersonalsinteractions, such as helping, sharing, and negotiatings*Correspondence should be sent to Georg...

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...root cause of disruption in the classroom and are closely associated with peersacceptance.sResearch has shown that problems with peer acceptance in the classroomsare of legitimate concern to schools (=-=Flook & Repetti, 2005-=-).sPeer problems affectschildren‟s self-concept, mental health and consequently, performance in school.sThespromotion of positive relationships with peers can contribute not only to children‟sssocial ...

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...nal educational skills (Carlson et al., 2008). Another study concluded that students who participate in physical activity programs in school are less likely to experience the adverse health complications resulting from degenerative diseases (Rennie et al., 2005). Taras (2005) also demonstrated that students who are physically active demonstrate greater attention during class than sedentary students. From a psychological perspective, physically active individuals report higher levels of self-esteem and lower levels of anxiety, which have both been associated with improved academic achievement (Flook et al., 2005). The present study depicted that students attending to Bartın University are minimum active in terms of physical activity level and have an average score in healthy lifestyle behaviors. This finding is almost in line with the results of Turkish National Burden of Disease Report (2004), which reported that 35% of the male and 71% of the female population in Turkey was physically inactive between the ages of 15-29 years old. Besides another study which focused on the university students’ physical activity levels found that 50% of them were inactive or exercising below the recommended level (Sav...