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Brendgen, Mara; Little, Todd D.; Krappmann, Lothar – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2000
Examined relations between children's and their friends' perceptions of friendship features as a function of children's sociometric status. Found rejected children's perceptions showed considerably lower correlations with friends' perceptions than did average and popular children's perceptions; rejected children's friends perceived their…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comparative Analysis, Friendship

Hart, Craig H.; Draper, Thomas W.; Olsen, Joseph A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2001
Examined cross-informant concordance, temporal stability, and reliability of sociometrics in 84 preschoolers. Found that parallel forms of teacher and peer sociometrics measured overlapping and unique aspects of popularity. Teacher-measured popularity was highly stable over 8 weeks; peer-measured popularity showed lower stability. Both teacher and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Peer Acceptance, Peer Evaluation, Peer Relationship

Black, Betty – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1992
Examined communication strategies that 68 preschoolers used to negotiate themes and roles in social pretend play. A major finding was that children in the disliked group used higher proportions of suggestions and demands than did children in the liked and low-impact groups. Disliked girls used the highest proportion of suggestions. (LB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship

Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Bellmore, Amy D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1999
Examined the role of fourth graders' social self-perceptions in their social development. Found significant relationships among self-perception measures, and they were moderately stable over the school year. Found significant sociometric status and gender effects for generalized and dyadic perceptions. Inaccurate social self-perceptions predicted…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comparative Analysis, Intermediate Grades