Enemies in the Gendered Societies of Middle Childhood: Prevalence, Stability, Associations With Social Status, and Aggression

Social integration between African American and European American children in majority black, majority white, and multicultural elementary classrooms

“…In the absence of positive intergroup sentiment, the distribution of antipathies helps distinguish two scenarios: one where groups ignore one another versus a second where they harbor active hostility. For instance, Rodkin, Pearl, Farmer, and Van Acker (2003) found in a longitudinal sample of third through fifth graders that boys and girls had almost as many cross-sex as same-sex liked-least nominations, a striking contrast to the absence of cross-sex nominations in positive sentiments. Boys and girls appeared to participate actively in relationships of mutual dislike.…”

Mutual antipathies during early adolescence: More than just rejection

“…Some of the recent research on mutual antipathies has followed this same line of reasoning and many researchers have presented analyses in which they both do and do not statistically control for rejection (e.g., Abecassis, Hartup, Haselager, Scholte, & Van Lieshout, 2002;Parker & Gamm, 2003;Rodkin, Pearl, Farmer, & Van Acker, 2003;Schwartz, Hopmeyer-Gorman, Toblin, & Abou-ezzedine, 2003). Consistent with research on rejection, which has been found to be associated with a variety of negative outcomes such as academic difficulties, victimisation, internalising problems, externalising problems, and immaturity (Bagwell et al, 1998;DeRosier & Thomas, 2003;Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 1998), studies have shown that having a mutual antipathy is independently associated with psychosocial adjustment problems.…”

“…Consistent with research on rejection, which has been found to be associated with a variety of negative outcomes such as academic difficulties, victimisation, internalising problems, externalising problems, and immaturity (Bagwell et al, 1998;DeRosier & Thomas, 2003;Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 1998), studies have shown that having a mutual antipathy is independently associated with psychosocial adjustment problems. For example, Abecassis et al (2002) found that children and adolescents with a mutual antipathy displayed higher levels of antisocial behaviour, social withdrawal, bullying, victimisation, and depression than those with no antipathies (see also Card & Hodges, 2003;Rodkin et al, 2003).…”

Social preference choices in late elementary school: Within and across group nominations

“…Research along these lines has focused on the peer-group placement of students with specific sociometric status types (Bagwell, Coie, Terry, & Lochman, 2000;Farmer, Estell, Bishop, O'Neal, & Cairns, 2003) and the analyses of reciprocal antipathies (Rodkin, Pearl, Farmer, & Van Acker, 2003;Schwartz, Hopmeyer-Gorman, Toblin, & Abou-ezzedine, 2003). To our knowledge, no studies have examined the distribution of sociometric nominations within and across peer groups.…”