Assessed empathy in preschool children using observational and situational methods and correlated them with teacher estimates of children's popularity. (Author/DB)

This study examined reciprocal friendship and peer acceptance in eight children with specific language impairment (SLI) in regular elementary classrooms. Three of the children were less well accepted than typical peers and five children reported no reciprocal friendships. Suggestions for facilitating friendships in children with SLI are offered.…

A modern clustering technique was applied to age-10 and age-13 sociometric data with the purpose of identifying longitudinally stable peer status clusters. The study included 445 girls from a Swedish longitudinal study. The identified temporally stable clusters of rejected, popular, and average girls were essentially larger than corresponding…

The reliabilities of two sociometric tests were compared when administered to three and four-year olds. The full-rank order instrument, the Paired-Comparisons Sociometric Test (PCST), was found to have greater test-retest reliability than the partial-rank order test, the Picture Sociometric Interview (PSI). (GDC)

The investigation compared the sociometric status of 37 learning disabled (LD) elementary grade boys and girls and their non-learning disabled peers. Findings indicated that the lower sociometric status of LD children was attributable to same-sex rejections of girls. LD children tended to play alone more often than non-LD children. (Author/DB)

Teacher, parent, and peer ratings of 19 mainstreamed trainable mentally retarded (TMR) primary students revealed that the TMR children as a group were below average in sociometric status, but cores varied widely. Sociometric status was not associated with behavior ratings but was negatively correlated with all areas of school competency.…

A sociometric and observational analysis of the social environment of seven learning disabled (LD) and 90 regular class peers, in grades two through five, yielded results such as that nonhandicapped and LD students were accepted at an equal level by class peers. (Author/MC)

Examined relations between children's and their friends' perceptions of friendship features as a function of children's sociometric status. Found rejected children's perceptions showed considerably lower correlations with friends' perceptions than did average and popular children's perceptions; rejected children's friends perceived their…

The study examined the social status of 43 elementary grade learning disabled (LD) students who, though based in special classes, joined regular classes up to 18 periods per week. Findings indicated both lower acceptance and lower rejection, suggesting that the LD students are simply not known to their regular class peers. (Author/DB)

Integrations and segregation of handicapped students are discussed in conjunction with shortcomings of Public Law 94-142. Problems in measurement of social acceptance are presented, and sociometric status of various handicapped populations in regular classrooms is reviewed. Because exceptional children are typically unpopular among regular class…

Playground observations of 34 learning disabed and non-LD elementary children revealed few substantive differences between the LD and non-LD groups. Sociometric questionnaires indicated that LD Ss had lower status than the non-LD children, and that the non-LD children play with about half of the LD children for whom they expressed liking.…

Analysis of sociometric ratings for 162 mainstreamed tenth graders revealed that, while learning disabled (LD) Ss were generally less well liked than their peers, a subgroup of the disabled sample was very well regarded. Most of the remaining LD Ss were rated in the neutral rather than the disliked range. (Author/CL)

The purpose of this study was to explore correlates of childhood social-withdrawal in India. Participants were n = 929 elementary school-aged children in New Delhi. Children completed peer nominations of social-withdrawal, aggression, and sociometric status, as well as self-report measures of loneliness and depressive symptoms. Teachers rated…

The authors' goals in the study were to investigate the possible gains made by including multiple assessments of status in the prediction of change in psychosocial adjustment and to compare the effectiveness of continuous and categorical measures of peer status in predicting adjustment. The authors obtained continuous and categorical measures of…