Peer Acceptance

Question 1

What is peer acceptance?

Answer 1

• The likelihood that a child is viewed by others as worthy social partner
• Not friendship

Question 2

What are the general four categories?

Answer 2

• From research

1. Popular kids, well-liked by many
2. Rejected kids, disliked by many
3. Controversia kids, both positive and negative votes
4. Neglected kids, seldom mentioned (happy with their friends)

3 + 4
- Display negative and positive behavior with others

Question 3

What can peer acceptance predict?

Answer 3

• Current and prospective psychological adjustment
• Rejected childhood; anxiety, unhappiness, low school-performance, dropout, antisocial behavior
• Reject adolescence; delinquency
• Rejected adulthood; criminality

Question 4

Rejected-aggressive children

Answer 4

• Largest subtype
• Conflicts, often physical
• Impulsive
• Display hostile behavior
• Blame others

Question 5

Rejected-withdrawn children

Answer 5

• Passive, socially awkward
• Social Anxiety
• Negative expectations

Question 6

Popular-prosocial children

Answer 6

• Combine academic and social competence

Question 7

Popular-antisocial children

Answer 7

• “Tough guys”, late childhood and early adolescents
• Athletically skilled but poor grades
• Cause Trouble
• Bullies, seen as cool
• Needs intervention

Question 8

How can we help rejected children?

Answer 8

• Through interventions
  1- Coaching, modeling, reinforcing positive social skills
  2. Training in and improving perspective taking and problem solving
  3. Combine efforts on several places, social and school
• Teachers helping to create a positive environment for change
• Need to start early
• Important to focus on parent-child relationship as well

Question 9

Peer groups

Answer 9

• A group that shares unique values, standards for behaviour and social structure involving leaders and followers, exclusion exists
• Having peer culture
• End of middle school
  -Barely changes the first few weeks, more changes after a year
• Often based of proximity
• Opportunities to practice co-operations, leadership and followship + loyalty toward goals

Question 10

Peer Cliques

Answer 10

• Emerges in early adolescence
• Group of friends with similiar beliefs, values and interests
• 5-8 members
• Same sex younger, mixed older
• Among girls, linked with academic and social competence
• Often important for girls

Question 11

Peer Crowds

Answer 11

• Several distinct cliques with similar values and beliefs
• Membership based on stereotype and reputation
  The jocks, the nerds, normies

Question 12

Conformity and Peer pressure

Answer 12

• Greater during adolescents
  Dont blindly follow
• Peer conformity is complex
  Age, situation, social approval, culture
• Most common are clothes, grooming and social activities
• Resistances strenghtens with age
  Differences exists
  Personality
  Parenting