Peer Relationships Flashcards
ROLE OF PLAY
NON SOCIAL
- unoccupied/onlooker/solitary
SOCIAL
- parallel/associative/cooperative
ASSOCIATIONS
- motor skills
- empathy
- cognitive skills
- emotional regulation
- positive emotions
SOCIOMETRIC STATI
BUKOWSKI ET AL (2012)
- POPULAR
- REJECTED
- NEGLECTED
- AVERAGE
- CONTROVERSIAL
SOCIOMETRIC STATI: POPULAR
BUKOWSKI ET AL (2012)
- highly liked/accepted/impactful peer rating
SOCIOMETRIC STATI: REJECTED
BUKOWSKI ET AL (2012)
- low acceptance/preference
- high rejection AND impact
SOCIOMETRIC STATI: NEGLECTED
BUKOWSKI ET AL (2012)
- low social impact ratings (if any at all)
- go unnoticed
- not especially liked/disliked
SOCIOMETRIC STATI: AVERAGE
- moderate ratings on both impact/preference
SOCIOMETRIC STATI: CONTROVERSIAL
- high impact BUT average performance
- noticed and liked/disliked by quite a lot on each spectrum
SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS
- +85% adolescents have a sibling
- kids tend to spend more time w/siblings > parents
- siblings act as:
1. confidants
2. caregivers
3. teachers/support source - sibling relationships AND small conflicts = associated w/better development
SIBLINGS: THEORIES
BOWLBY: ATTACHMENT THEORY
ADLER: INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY
SIBLINGS: ATTACHMENT
- siblings = attachment figures
- secure attachment -> positive sibling relations
SIBLINGS: INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY
- kids try to overcome inferiority feelings
- aim to differentiate themselves from siblings
- parental favouritism (ie. difs in closeness/confiding/emotional support provision) can -> dif sibling relationships
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
- positive adolescent romantic relations associations:
1. peer group status
2. companionship
3. intimacy/support
3. social competence
4. autonomy sense - partner selection based on:
1. honest/kindness
2. IQ
3. attractiveness
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: CHARACTERISTICS
- involvement (ie. dating frequency/consistency)
- partner identity (ie. characteristics of the partner)
- content (ie. what partners do together)
- relationship quality (ie. supportive VS negative experiences)
- cognitive/emotional processes (ie. perceptions/attributions of self/partner/emotions/moods)
- adolescent romantic relations = oft unreciprocated
- positive association between romantic problems/depressive symptoms
PEER SIMILARITY
- friendships characterised by:
1. intimacy
2. reciprocity - friends have similarities:
1. prosocial behaviours/sociability
2. interests/behaviours
3. maturity in play interactions
4. academic motivation
5. emotions/attributions
6. proximity
CHANGES IN FRIENDSHIP COMPLEXITY
GUMMERUM ET AL (2008)
- age 9+ across 4 dif countries
- complexity of children’s friendship descriptions increased at same rate
- all nearly equal in high complexity ratings by 15Y