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Self-Perpetuation Processes in Children’s Peer Relationships

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Social Competence in Developmental Perspective

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Abstract

At least two related indicators of social competence can be identified in the literature (Asher & Coie, in press). The first is the quality of a child’s actual social behavior in a given context-most notably, in the peer group. The second is the social status or position that a child acquires in that group. The relationship between social behavior and social status has been demonstrated very clearly in several studies (Coie, Dodge, & Kupersmidt, in press). The goal of this chapter is to specify some of the processes that may account for the emergence and maintenance of status in the peer group, social behavior in the peer group and the social status-social behavior link.

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  1. Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Toon Cillessen & Tamara J. Ferguson

  2. Utah State University, USA

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Cillessen, T., Ferguson, T.J. (1989). Self-Perpetuation Processes in Children’s Peer Relationships. In: Schneider, B.H., Attili, G., Nadel, J., Weissberg, R.P. (eds) Social Competence in Developmental Perspective. NATO ASI Series, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2442-0_13

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