Since the articles I have found on the Internet are all about studies on how peer rejection and aggression will predict one’s externalizing problems, I searched again and luckily, found some argumentative essays on this topic.
As stated in Social Competence by T. Davidson, J. Welsh, and K. Bierman,
“Rejection or victimization by peers may become a source of significant stress to children, contributing to feelings of loneliness and low self-esteem. In addition, peer rejection can escalate in a negative developmental spiral. That is, when children with poor social skills become rejected, they are often excluded from positive interactions with peers that are critical for learning social skills. Rejected children typically have fewer options in terms of play partners and friends than do accepted children.”
Peer-rejected teens look down on themselves and as this kind of feeling cumulate in their mind, their behavior changes from positive to negative. In addition, since they are not accepted in to large groups, they form smaller groups with other rejected teens and this prevents them from learning social skills or getting new ideas. Their lack of social experience and disability in social skills will also increase over time, along with feelings of anxiety and inadequacy toward the society.
I found that this essay relates to Jess well. Jess only has a small group to join and this group is made up of Willow, Xander, and himself. All of these three people are outsiders. Just as the essay has demonstrated, the outsiders form a small group with each other and not interact with other large groups. Although Willow and Xander didn’t show their anxiety at first, Jess became a vampire and expressed his anger to the society.
Bibliography:
Tish Davidson, Janet Welsh, and Karen Bierman. “Social Competence.” Education. Web. 30 Jan. 2011.
Your blog reminds me of infantile autism. When people are not accepted by the group or they receive bad reactions from others, mostly they would close the door to their heart.
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