Childhood Peer Rejection, Aggression, Withdrawal, and Perceived Competence as Predictors of Self-Reported Behavior Problems in Preadolescence is a new article I got yesterday from the research for my final argument and I read it throughout today. It talks about a study used to predict how peer rejection, aggression, withdrawal, and perceived competence will affect the behavior problems reported by preadolescence. Although my theme basically focuses on adolescents, I think this problem happens to people in every age category, so I still did this article.
After the researchers finished the study and got to the discussion part, here is the conclusion J. Kupersmidt and C. Patterson have reached,
“Low acceptance emerged as part of the risk profile for the prediction of a general negative outcome for both boys and girls. Low-accepted boys with low self-esteem were at greatest risk, whereas low-accepted, aggressive girls were most likely to report behavior problems in the clinical range.” (Page 444)
This conclusion means that rejection by peers will cause negative effects on the behavior of the rejected ones; this rule applies to both boys and girls. However, as the data shows, the effect on boys and girls are different in the numbers. Boys will react to the rejection much more severely than girls do. Girls tend to feel bad about their behaviors when they are not accepted, and the feeling of social incompetent sometimes serves as a protective factor for then. But the boys tend to show aggression when they are not accepted into peer groups.
Bibliography:
Janis B. Kupersmidt, Charlotte J. Patterson. “Childhood Peer Rejection, Aggression, Withdrawal, and Perceived Competence as Predictors of Self-Reported Behavior Problems in Preadolescence.” Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 19.4 (1991): 427-447. Google. 29 Jan. 2011.
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