Anxious solitude across contexts: Girls’ interactions with familiar and unfamiliar peers
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Heidi Gazelle, Assistant Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Cross-situational continuity and change in anxious solitary girls' behavior and peer relations were examined in interactions with familiar versus unfamiliar playmates. Fourth-grade girls (N=209, M age=9.77 years, half African American, half European American) were identified as anxious solitary or behaviorally normative using observed and teacher-reported behavior among classmates. Subsequently, girls participated in 1-hr play groups containing 5 same-race familiar or unfamiliar girls for 5 consecutive days. Results support both cross-situational continuity and change in anxious solitary girls' behavior and peer relations. Although anxious solitary girls exhibited difficulty interacting with both familiar and unfamiliar playmates relative to behaviorally normative girls, elements of their behavior improved in unfamiliar play groups, a context in which they received less peer mistreatment.
Anxious solitude across contexts: Girls’ interactions with familiar and unfamiliar peers
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Child Development, 76, 227-246
- Language: English
- Date: 2005
- Keywords
- peer relations, child psychology, girls, interpersonal relations, playmates