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Adolescents' Selective Visual Attention for High-Status Peers: The Role of Perceiver Status and Gender
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Lansu, Tessa A. M.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Karremans, Johan C. – Child Development, 2014
Previous research has shown that adolescents' attention for a peer is determined by the peer's status. This study examined how it is also determined by the status of the perceiving adolescent, and the gender of both parties involved (perceiver and perceived). Participants were 122 early adolescents (M age = 11.0 years) who completed…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Eye Movements, Social Status, Early Adolescents
Children's Cross-Ethnic Relationships in Elementary Schools: Concurrent and Prospective Associations between Ethnic Segregation and Social Status
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Wilson, Travis M.; Rodkin, Philip C. – Child Development, 2013
This study examined whether ethnic segregation is concurrently (fall) and prospectively (fall to spring) associated with social status among 4th- and 5th-grade African American and European American children ("n" = 713, ages 9-11 years). Segregation measures were (a) same-ethnicity favoritism in peer affiliations and (b) cross-ethnicity…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Racial Relations, Ethnic Groups, Social Status
Danish Majority Children's Reasoning about Exclusion Based on Gender and Ethnicity
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Moller, Signe J.; Tenenbaum, Harriet R. – Child Development, 2011
This study investigated 282 eight- to twelve-year-old Danish majority children's judgments and justifications of exclusion based on gender and ethnicity (i.e., Danish majority children and ethnic-minority children of a Muslim background). Children's judgments and reasoning varied with the perpetrator of the exclusion and the social identity of the…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Childhood Attitudes, Minority Group Children, Intergroup Relations
A Longitudinal Study of Forms and Functions of Aggressive Behavior in Early Childhood
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Murray-Close, Dianna; Ostrov, Jamie M. – Child Development, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the distinct forms (i.e., physical and relational) and functions (i.e., proactive and reactive) of aggressive behavior during early childhood (n = 101; M age = 45.09 months). Forms, but not functions, of aggressive behavior were stable over time. A number of contributors to aggression were associated…
Descriptors: Aggression, Young Children, Longitudinal Studies, Interpersonal Relationship
Cardiac Vagal Regulation and Early Peer Status
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Graziano, Paulo A.; Keane, Susan P.; Calkins, Susan D. – Child Development, 2007
A sample of 341 5 1/2-year-old children participating in an ongoing longitudinal study was the focus of a study on the relation between cardiac vagal regulation and peer status. To assess cardiac vagal regulation, resting measures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and RSA change (suppression) to 3 cognitively and emotionally challenging tasks…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Social Behavior, Young Children, Longitudinal Studies
From Censure to Reinforcement: Developmental Changes in the Association between Aggression and Social Status
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Mayeux, Lara – Child Development, 2004
Developmental changes were examined in the associations among physical and relational aggression, and sociometric and perceived popularity based on peer nominations. Participating in the longitudinal study were 905 children (440 girls, 465 boys) from ages 10 to 14. Associations between the forms of status and between the forms of aggression…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Children, Adolescents, Social Status