Children's peer relations and social competence : a century of progress
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Current perspectives in psychology.
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| Physical Description: | x, 436 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-419) and index. |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2005]
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| ISBN: | 0300106432 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- The founding of the peer relations discipline : early agendas and research endeavors
- The emergence of peer interaction and sociability
- Defining and describing children's peer relationships
- Making friends and becoming accepted in peer groups : the processes of relationship formation
- Social competence and the search for its origins
- Contributions of peer relationships to children's development and adjustment
- New evidence about children's peer relationships and the processes of relationship formation, maintenance, and change
- The search for the origins of social competence revisited
- New directions in research on the contributions of peer relationships to children's development and adjustment innovative agendas
- Peer victimization is investigated as another aspect of children's peer relations
- The role of gender, emotion, and culture in children's social competence and peer relationships
- Conclusion: appraising the scientific study of children's peer relations and social competence.