Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ678174
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003
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Children's Peer Selection: Experimental Examination of the Role of Self-Perceptions.
Cassidy, Jude; Aikins, Julie Wargo; Chernoff, Jodi Jacobson
Developmental Psychology, v39 n3 p495-508 May 2003
The role of self-perceptions in peer selection was examined among seventh-graders and third-graders. Findings indicated that when evaluations (supposedly of unfamiliar peers) related to specific competence domains, seventh-graders preferred positive peers to negative peers, whereas third-graders selected peers who viewed them as they viewed themselves. When evaluations related to global self-worth, children's selections were unrelated to their own self-worth views. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Children, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Depression (Psychology), Early Adolescents, Experiments, Friendship, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Relationship, Performance Factors, Rejection (Psychology), Selection, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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