When Elementary School Students Are Harassed by Peers: A Self-Regulative Perspective on Help Seeking

Elementary school students typically are reluctant to get help from their teacher when they are teased, taunted, threatened, or confronted by peers with verbal and physical aggression. Yet, under certain circumstances-most notably, situations of danger-getting help from a teacher can be a highly motivated and adaptive strategy of self-regulation. Although a good deal of research has examined students' reluctance to seek a teacher's assistance...