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Quality of Play, Social Acceptance and Reciprocal Friendship in Preschool Children
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Coelho, Leandra; Torres, Nuno; Fernandes, Carla; Santos, António J. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
Playing with peers is one of the most important contexts for the acquisition of social competencies in early childhood. This study examined the relation between children's play behavior, social acceptance in the peer group, and number of reciprocal friendships. One hundred and twenty eight children, aged between three and five years, participated…
Descriptors: Play, Peer Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Education
Longitudinal Stability of Social Competence Indicators in a Portuguese Sample: Q-Sort Profiles of Social Competence, Measures of Social Engagement, and Peer Sociometric Acceptance
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Santos, António J.; Vaughn, Brian E.; Peceguina, Inês; Daniel, João R. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study examines the temporal stability (over 3 years) of individual differences in 3 domains relevant to preschool children's social competence: social engagement/motivation, profiles of behavior and personality attributes characteristic of socially competent young children, and peer acceptance. Each domain was measured with multiple…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Interpersonal Competence, Friendship, Young Children