PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15.3: Peer Group, Relational Aggression, Social Skills
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Close friendships provide opportunities to explore self and develop a deep understanding of another. Help young people deal with stresses of everyday life. Peer acceptance: likability, extent to which a child is viewed by a group of agemates as a worthy social partner. Social skills that contribute to friendship also enhance peer acceptance. Measure peer acceptance through social preference and social prominence. Tend to be anxious, unhappy, disruptive, poorly achieving, have low self esteem. Controversial children: receive many votes both positive and negative. Neglected children: seldom mentioned either positively or negatively. School age children with peer relationship problems are more likely to have pre-existing, Indicator of current and later psychological adjustment weak emotional self regulation skills. Popular prosocial children: combine academic and social competence. Popular antisocial children: late childhood and early adolescence. Athletically skilled but poor students who cause trouble and defy adult authority. Relationally aggressive boys and girls who enhance own status by ignoring, spreading rumors about other children.
