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Social Status of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Special Needs Schools: The Role of Students' Problem Behavior and Descriptive Classroom Norms
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Schoop-Kasteler, Noemi; Hofmann, Verena; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Müller, Christoph M. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Introduction: Individual social status among peers (i.e., acceptance and rejection) has important implications for students' social and academic development. The present study investigates the role of individual problem behavior and classroom norms in the development of acceptance and rejection among students with intellectual disabilities (ID) in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Special Schools, Behavior Problems
Peer Rejection and HPA Activity in Middle Childhood: Friendship Makes a Difference
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Peters, Ellen; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; de Weerth, Carolina – Child Development, 2011
Exclusion and victimization by classmates were related to levels and diurnal change in cortisol in 97 fourth graders (53% boys, M = 9.3 years). Number and quality of friendships were considered as moderators. Salivary cortisol was collected 5 times daily on 2 school days. Excluded children had elevated cortisol levels at school and a flattened…
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Groups, Group Dynamics, Grade 4
Clueless or Powerful? Identifying Subtypes of Bullies in Adolescence
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Peeters, Margot; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Scholte, Ron H. J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
This study examined the heterogeneity of bullying among adolescents. It was hypothesized that bullying behavior serves different social functions and, depending on these functions, bullies will differ in their skills, status and social behavior. In a total sample of 806 8th graders, 120 adolescents (52 boys, 68 girls) were identified as bullies…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Behavior, Females, Peer Groups
Associations of Peer Acceptance and Perceived Popularity with Bullying and Victimization in Early Adolescence
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de Bruyn, Eddy H.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Wissink, Inge B. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
This study examined the role of peer acceptance and perceived popularity in bullying and victimization in early adolescent peer groups. Peer acceptance is the degree to which adolescents are well liked by their peers; perceived popularity indicates visibility, dominance, and prestige. It was hypothesized that acceptance negatively predicts…
Descriptors: Bullying, Early Adolescents, Group Dynamics, Peer Acceptance
Conceptualizing and Measuring Peer Acceptance and Rejection.
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Bukowski, William M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Introduces the basic ideas of Jacob Moreno's (1934) historical model of sociometric judgment and discusses how developmental psychologists have used this model in child development research. Traces the development of sociometric techniques to study children's peer relations, and notes the limitations of contemporary sociometric techniques. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Models, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship
Predicting Changes in Adjustment Using Repeated Measures of Sociometric Status
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Mayeux, Lara; Bellmore, Amy D.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2007
The authors' goals in the study were to investigate the possible gains made by including multiple assessments of status in the prediction of change in psychosocial adjustment and to compare the effectiveness of continuous and categorical measures of peer status in predicting adjustment. The authors obtained continuous and categorical measures of…
Descriptors: Sociometric Techniques, Social Adjustment, Grade 5, Grade 4
Children's Problems Caused by Consistent Rejection in Early Elementary School.
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; And Others – 1992
A study was conducted to test the effects of early consistent rejection by peers in early elementary school on children's social and emotional adjustment at the end of elementary school. The study used data from a longitudinal study conducted in the Netherlands between 1986 and 1991. In 1986, a total of 231 kindergarten and first-grade boys from…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Antisocial Behavior, Children, Depression (Psychology)