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Young Children's Affective Responses to Acceptance and Rejection from Peers: A Computer-Based Task Sensitive to Variation in Temperamental Shyness and Gender
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Howarth, Grace Z.; Guyer, Amanda E.; Perez-Edgar, Koraly – Social Development, 2013
This study presents a novel task examining young children's affective responses to evaluative feedback--specifically, social acceptance and rejection--from peers. We aimed to determine (1) whether young children report their affective responses to hypothetical peer evaluation predictably and consistently, and (2) whether young children's responses…
Descriptors: Shyness, Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Peer Evaluation
An Integrative Examination of Peer Conflict: Children's Reported Goals, Emotions, and Behaviors.
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Murphy, Bridget C.; Eisenberg, Nancy – Social Development, 2002
This study examined interrelations among 7- to 11-year-olds' typical emotions, goals, and behavior during peer conflict and the predictive value of emotions and goals for behavior. Findings indicated that children's goal friendliness during peer conflict related to low anger and high sadness intensity. Children reporting nonconstructive behavior…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Children, Conflict
Affective Social Competence.
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Halberstadt, Amy G.; Denham, Susanne A.; Dunsmore, Julie C. – Social Development, 2001
Describes a theoretical model for affective social competence to include the three integrated and dynamic components of sending affective messages, receiving affective messages, and experiencing affect. Places the model within the context of previous research and theory related to affective social competence and, for each component, examines how…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Behavior, Children, Emotional Development
Children's Use and Knowledge of Display Rules for Anger following Hypothetical Vignettes versus following Live Peer Interaction.
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Parker, Elizabeth H.; Hubbard, Julie A.; Ramsden, Sally R.; Relyea, Nicole; Dearing, Karen F.; Smithmyer, Catherine M.; Schimmel, Kelly D. – Social Development, 2001
Examined correspondence between second-graders' use and knowledge of anger display rules. Found that children's responses were moderately related across two contexts. Following live interactions, compared to hypothetical vignettes, children reported feeling and expressing less anger, intending to hide their anger more, and dissembling their anger…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Perceptions of Achievement and Achieving Peers in U.S. and Chinese Kindergartners
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Li, Jin; Wang, Qi – Social Development, 2004
Two studies were conducted to examine perceptions about achievement and achieving peers in 190 U.S. and Chinese kindergartners. Children provided free-narrative responses to story beginnings about an achieving protagonist in school settings. We found marked cultural differences. For achievement, U.S. children perceived more intellectual…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Intellectual Development, Academic Achievement
Parental Control and Affect as Predictors of Children's Display Rule Use and Social Competence with Peers
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McDowell, David J.; Parke, Ross D. – Social Development, 2005
Seventy-six fourth-grade children and their parents participated in a study of the linkages among parental control and positive affect, children's display rule use, and children's social competence with peers. Using observational measures of parental behavior and children's display rule use, it was found that parental positive affect and control…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence