Chapter 13 Flashcards
How is self-esteem measured?
How is Self-Esteem measured?
• Preschool children is have their self-esteem measured by the picture method
• Older children use questionnaires
• An example is the Self-Esteem- Perception Profile (SPPC)
• Five domains (Harter, 1988)
What are the elements of the SPCC
Self-Esteem- Perception Profile (SPPC)
- Scholastic competence: How competent/smart does the kid think they are at school
- Athletic competence: How competent the child feels at sports and games requiring physical activity
- Social acceptance: How popular or accepted the child feels with peers
- Behavioural conduct: How adequate the child feels about behaving the way they are supposed to
- Physical appearance: How good-looking the child feels and how much the child likes their physical characteristics like highest, weight, face and hair
• The answers of the six questions in each section are averaged to create a score for the aspect of self-esteem. All the data are used to create a self-perception profile for each child
When is Self-Esteem Highiest?
Preschool years
When does self esteem start to drop and why?
- A drop in self esteem in elementary school is common because children compare themselves with their peers
- Unlike at home with loving parents, children are subject to realistic feedback
- Might not be the best etc.
- These realisations cause a modest drop in SE in the area they affect (e.g. running = athletic competence)
IS self-esteem in middle childhood general or specific and how?
- During middle-childhood, SE becomes more differentiated; they evaluate themselves in more domains and also, these domains become more independent
- Young kids SE is across all dimensions, older kid differ across domains
Academic aspects of self-esteem in middle childhood
- Children’s academic concept becomes really well defined (Byrne & Gavin, 1996)
- As they experience success and failure at school, they learn about their academic ability in different subjects and all contribute to an overall level of Academic Competence
- A child who thinks they are good at reading and math but not in science will have overall positive SE but one who thinks they are bad in all, wont
How do we obtain a global score for SE?
• • The answers of the six questions in each section are averaged to create a score for the aspect of self-esteem. All the data are used to create a self-perception profile for each child
If there are aspects that the child believes they are good in and these outnumber the bad there will be an overall positive SE. If not, there may be a negative one
How many kids have negative SE (Evidence)
• Cole (1991) Found that 25% of surveyed 9 & 10 year olds had negative self esteem in 3 scales of the SPCC
How can parenting style influence child SE positively?
3 things
- Children are more likely to view themselves positively when their parents are affectionate towards and involved with them (Lord, Eccles & McCarthy, 1994)
- This, over time, is like the parent saying “you matter to me” which the kid internalises
- High SE kids have parents who are not afraid to set rules and are open to discussing them with their kids (Coopersmith, 1967)
How can parenting style influence child SE negatively?
2 things
- Parents who don’t set rules are saying they don’t care
* Parents who refuse to discuss rules are saying “your opinions don’t matter to me”
Praise and self-esteem
- Praise can help but MUST be genuine
- If you lie to a kid “you’re clever” then later they struggle with a problem, this can make it worse than no praise
- Praise is good is it is well-times, genuine and does not link appreciation to a child’s achievements (Brummelman, Crocker & Bushman, 2016)
How do classmates influence SE
- Social comparisons are also important (Butler, 1992)
- They compare with peers
- Kids learn very quickly where they rank academically
What are the 2 types of children with respect to SE?
How are they different?
What is the norm for kids, SE and peers?
- Idiocentric people emphasize independence and personal needs and goals over those of others
- Allocentric people emphasize interdependence and cooperation more than personal goals
- Only allocentric kids SE could be predicted by the level of social support they experienced from their best friends – not true for idiocentric kids (Dayan, Doyle & Markiewicz, 2000)
- BUT most kids SE is high when others view them positively and low when negatively (so dependent on others) Interesting thoughts on gifted class – used to being the best, now average, SE drops (Hoge et al., 1990)
What are the known consequences of low SE for kids?
(4 things)
Is this relationship causal and if so in what direction?
Id there something some kids could benefit from?
• Low SE kids are at risk for:
1. Problems with peers
2. Psychological disorders like depression
3. More likely to be involved in antisocial behavior
4. Do poorly at school
• Does not mean it caused the outcome, sometimes the outcome caused low SE
• Bad at school, low SE, try less, worse at school etc.
• Some kids could benefit from a psychological intervention
How and why does peer interaction change in middle childhood?
As children can get on better with others, what changes?
- Kids in middle childhood get along better cos they have the required cognitive and social skills to manage the conflicts that arise
- As children move beyond the preschool years, they realise that others have different perspectives
- Also, they can see each themselves as other children do
- Maltreatment and abuse can interfere with this process, making it harder to take another person’s perspective (Buracl et al., 2006)
- Because kids in middle childhood are better and getting on with others, they tend to spend more time with peers away from adult supervision
What do kids do together?
• Zurbatany, Hartmann & Rankin found kids spend time with peers mostly hanging out and talking
What is Rough-and-Tumble play, when doe sit start and how does it differ by gender?
- Rough-and-tumble play begins; physical play – chasing, pushing etc. but for fun
- This type of play is still a game and when interrupted by adults, kids say there is no problem (Pellegrini & Smith, 1998)
- Girls do less than buys and theirs tends to involve chasing, boys wrestle also
What are the 3 purposes of prosocial activities with peers
• Prosocial activities with peers have 3 purposes (Zarbatany, Hartmann & Rankin, 1990)
- The activities provide a prosocial context to support children’s development of relationships and provide a sense of belonging
- Provide a focus on achievements well as the integrity of the child’s self
- Offer opportunities for learning and instruction
• Not all peer activities provide tall of these which is why it is valuable that they are involved in several
Is all peer activity helpful?
• Peer activities can also allow negative interpersonal interactions (Ellis, Zarbatany, Chen, Kinal & Boyoko, 2018)
Negative laughter directed to another individual
Could be negative interpersonal actions of coersion
If peer group does it, kid might
What is friendship and a best friend?
- Friendship is a voluntary relationship based on two people who like each other
- By kindergarten, kids have a best friend which is a child they play with and is nice to them
How is a typical friend similar?
- At this point, friends are like them in age, gender and race (Hartup, 1992)
- Though ethnic segregation begins at this age (Hamm, 2000)
- Friendships are more common with friends from the same age and ethnic group
In what way might the typical pattern of friendship ethnicity differ and why?
Are their special difficulties immigrants must overcome with respect to friendship?
- Mixed friendships are more common when the school has small class sizes
- When classes are larger, kids choose from the larger pool of same race peers
- Interracial friendships are usually confined to school, unless the neighborhood is integrated (DuBois & Hirsch, 1990)
- Immigrants must overcome social and linguistic barriers to make friends, in north America, increasing English is associated with increased chances for youth to broaden their social networks
Besides ethnicity, class size and age, are their other factors which determine whom middle children might be friends with?
Do people become more or less similar to their friends with time?
- Also, friendships are based on other things: attitudes towards school, recreation and the future
- As time passes, friends become more similar in their values and attitudes
How does gender influence friendships in middle childhood?
What happens if a kid has both gender friends?
And if only opposite sex friends?
- Overwhelmingly, friendships are same sex but not always
- Boys and girls are equally likely to have opposite sex friends
- Kids who have both same & opposite sex friends are sociable and well adjusted
- Those who only have opposite sex friends are unpopular, less competent academically and socially
- This could be because they were rejected by peers and then took opposite sex parents as their last resort (Kovacsm Parker & Hoffman, 1996)
How doe friendships end (3 things)?
- Sometimes friendships in middle childhood are brief because thee kids have the ability to make friends but not sustain them (e.g. cannot keep secrets or too bossy)
- Sometimes friendships end because there is conflict
- Or because their interests turn out not to be similar
Quality of online friends in middle childhood
• Children in middle childhood also make online friendships and they are as good as real ones
Consequences of good relationships with friends (2 things)
Relationships that stay are valuable; children with Good friends have higher SE, Less likely to be lonely More often prosocial Less likley to be victimized by peers These kids cope with stress better Greater self-worth as young adults
What are the 5 possibilities for middle children with respect to popularity at school
There are 5 categories in children with respect to popularity (Marks, 2017)
- Popular children are liked by many classmates
- Rejected children are disliked by many classmates
- Controversial children are both liked and disliked by classmates
- Average children are liked and disliked by some children but without the intensity as the previous 3
- Neglected children are ignored by classmates