Peer status and the directionality of symptomatic behavior: Prime social competence predictors of outcome for vulnerable children.

Rolf, Jon E.

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1976.tb01229.x

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“…Piers (1972) compared an unspecified clinic group with a non-clinic sample on the Piers-Harris Self-Goncept Scale (Piers, 1969) and found that referred children rated themselves as less popular and less happy than controls. Rolf (1976) compared acting out children to a number of other groups on a sociometric measure in which children are assigned roles in a class play. Externalizers more often assigned themselves to negative roles such as the "bad guy" or the "class bully", roles which are assumed to reflect a negative self-image.…”

Section: Self-reportsmentioning

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“…The classic study by Gowen et al (1973) indicates that peer rejection at age 8 was predictive of psychiatric problems in early adulthood. Rolf (1976) has likewise reported that children with externalizing symptoms are more likely to be rated negatively by peers than other groups of children "at risk". Several studies of children of schizophrenic mothers have reported that high risk groups receive more negative peer ratings than controls (Garmezy, 1975;Rolf, 1972), while within a high risk group, those individuals who actually break down had more problems with peers prior to their breakdown (Mednick and Schulsinger, 1968).…”

Section: Peer Ratingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Peer Relations in Hyperactive Children

Campbell

Paulauskas

1979

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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RESEARCH and clinical work with hyperactive children have focused on problems with attention, self-control, disciplinary problems, and school achievement. Remarkably little emphasis has been placed on the social functioning of these youngsters or the difficulties which may follow from problems with peers. Indeed, relatively little empirical data exist on the social competence or incompetence of hyperactive children with agemates or siblings, although the importance of peer interaction to general adjustment is accepted virtually without question.Recently there has been renewed interest in social behaviour, social cognition, and patterns of peer interaction in non-clinical populations of children (e.g. Asher, Oden and Gottman, 1976;Hartup, 1970;Shantz, 1975) and there is wide agreement that satisfactory relations with peers are a crucial facet of normal development. Evidence from several studies indicates that popularity with peers is an important predictor of adjustment in childhood and adulthood. Cowen et al. (1973) reported that children who were rated negatively by peers in third grade were more likely to end up on the psychiatric register in early adulthood. Indeed, peer ratings were more accurate predictors of later adjustment than teacher or parent reports of school achievement. The long-term follow-up studies of Robins (1966) and Roff (1961) likewise indicate that poor peer relations are likely precursors of adult psychopathology, while Garmezy (1975) notes that children at risk are similarly characterized by problems with peers. Subjects in many of these studies include heterogeneous groups of aggressive and withdrawn children, many of whom are very likely to have been hyperactive.As Hartup (1976) has argued in his discussion of peer interaction in normal children, socialization within the peer group is an important part of development. He suggests that socialization of aggression, morality, and sex-typing, for example, are very strongly influenced by peer group experiences. Moreover, positive peer relations are associated with social competence, school achievement, and general adjustment. Given the strong link between social success in the peer group and other indices of adjustment and maladjustment across the age range from the preschool years (Kohn, 1976;Bronson, 1966) through adulthood (Robins, 1966;Roff, 1961), it appears obvious that some consideration should be given to peer interaction in children specifically diagnosed as hyperactive.•Requests for reprints to:

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Section: Self-reportsmentioning

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Peer Relations in Hyperactive Children

Campbell

Paulauskas

1979

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Relatively few of these young children are initially diagnosably ill, but they can all be assessed with respect to their level of social and cognitive competence. While child functioning is of importance in its own right, several authors have emphasized that child competence/incompetence should be regarded as a precursor of adult psychological health versus psychiatric disorder (Garmezy, 1974; Rolf, 1976; Weintraub, 1987).…”

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Competence in Children at Risk for Psychopathology Predicted from Confirmatory and Disconfirmatory Family Communication

Wichstrøm

Holte

Husby³

et al. 1993

Family Process

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The relationship between confirmation/disconfirmation in parental and family communication and offspring social competence was examined in 59 families in which at least one of the parents had been hospitalized for a functional psychiatric disorder. Communication samples were obtained using the Consensus Rorschach procedure both with parental couples and with parent-child family units. The communication was analyzed using the Confirmation-Disconfirmation Coding System (CONDIS). The competence at school of 7-and 10-year-old boys was rated by both peers and teachers. Competence at home was rated by the parents. The results indicated that the more competent the high-risk children were, both at school and at home, the more their family communicated in confirmatory ways and the less they communicated in disconfirmatory ways. Furthermore, although the parental couple CONDIS score and the family CONDIS score were modestly correlated, each contributed separately to the prediction of offspring competence. These communication data were not significantly related to parental psychopathology, neither severity of parental impairment nor the diagnosis of the patient-parent.

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“…Index children have been depicted as abrasive, disagreeable, delinquent, undisciplined, impatient, disruptive, and behavior problems. These children are not as disruptive, however, as children being treated for externalizing problems (Rolf, 1972; Rolf (1976) and Watt et al . (1979) found index males to be more aggressive while index females were more withdrawn.…”

Section: Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%