A longitudinal analysis of psychosocial outcomes of negative peer experiences and rejection expectation.

详细信息   

• 作者：Ghannadpour ; Jasmine.
• 学历：Ph.D.
• 年：2016
• 毕业院校：St. John's University (New York).
• Department：Developmentalpsychology.
• ISBN：9781339033860
• CBH：3663824
• FileSize：3836762
• Pages：94

文摘

In social interactions, some children expect to be accepted by their peers, while others expect to be rejected. These expectations can have psychosocial consequences, perhaps depending on previous social interactions. The current study will investigate whether children's social expectations will influence their psychosocial adjustment and whether negative interpersonal experiences will amplify the association. The study consisted of self-report and peer-nominated data from an ethnically diverse sample of 346 children, ages 9 to 14 years old and then one year later, at ages 10 to 15 years old. Variables assessed included social (social preference, positive experiences), emotional (depression, emotional dysregulation, anxious feelings about rejection expectation and angry feelings about rejection expectation), cognitive (rumination, revenge goals), and behavioral (withdrawal, relational aggression, and overt aggression) outcomes. Results indicate that although the interaction of negative experiences and rejection expectation did not play a significant role in predicting outcomes, the two factors independently, and in conjunction with gender, did provide significant variance in the prediction of both concurrent and longitudinal outcomes. Implications of these findings and future directions for research are discussed.