HDF 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stress Management, Attribution Bias

• School: CMU
• Department: Human Development & Family
• Course: HDF 306
• Professor: Tzu Fen Chang

Document Summary

Crowds (a group of adolescents with similar reputation and features) Deviance from group norms: gender, ethnicity/race, less likely to be rejected if display similar behaviors. Reputational bias: peers remember disliked children"s or adolescents negative behavior and forget their positive behaviors, peers seek evidence to confirm their bias. Social dominance hierarchy: dominance status is determined by the ability to control resources in peer groups, children/adolescents in low socioeconomic status tend to be in low social dominance. Person-environment fit theory (p-e fit theory): individuals tend to experience optimal adjustment when their environments fit into their features. P-e fit theory explains why adolescents who do not follow group norms tend to be rejected. Individual: deviance from group norms peer rejection emotional adjustment peer rejection. From perspective of the transactional model in human development. Individual: display negative behaviors toward peers peer rejection peers tend to perceive the individual"s negative behaviors and show hostility individual: display more negative behaviors toward peers peer rejection.