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Profiles Of Children’S Classroom Relationships And Their Association To Peer Social Competence, Tara K. Cossel
Profiles Of Children’S Classroom Relationships And Their Association To Peer Social Competence, Tara K. Cossel
Tara K. Cossel (Tara Morton)
The nature of children’s peer relationships, usually investigated in terms of mutual friends and/or mutual antipathies, is critical to their social functioning and adjustment. Recently, Olsen, Parra, Cohen, Schoffstall, and Egli (2012) offered a comprehensive framework for studying children’s peer relationships as all possible dyads within classrooms, using both friendship and antipathy nominations. This present research extended this work by systematically considering a more complete profile of all the classroom relationships of each third-sixth grade child and comparing these profiles to social functioning, including: children’s self-ratings of social competence and peer optimism, and peer nominations of sociability, showing respect, overt …