TCH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Prosocial Behavior, Solitude, Social Skills
5 Dec 2018
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Peer status: measure of how accepted children are in a peer group, assessed by using the sociometric method. Sociometric method: a quantitative method for measuring social relationships, roughly 40 percent of elementary students maintain status over a year; 25 percent over 4 years. -- liked by many and disliked by few. Types of rejected children: rejected- aggressive: think they are more popular than they are, rejected- withdrawn: see themselves as socially incompetent. (shy) Low academic achievement: lower gpa, iq, and test scores, teachers may give preferential treatment to better-liked students, boosting their success, feelings of anxiety or depression may interfere with learning. What predicts peer status: prosocial behaviors, aggression, social withdrawal (shy even among familiar peers, social skills, parenting risk factors. -- maltreatment and abuse: parent choices of child"s peer world, parent coaching social skills. Controversial and neglected children are most likely to change status across time.
