Similarity as the Basis for Children's Friendships: The Roles of Sociometric Status, Aggressive and Withdrawn Behavior, Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics

Kupersmidt, Janis B.; DeRosier, Melissa E.; Patterson, Charlotte

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“…Much of the work on individual differences in the establishment of close friendships and peer group selection is based on the idea of proactive transactions. It appears that friendship patterns and peer networks are often the function of children with similar behavioral tendencies affiliating with one another, which may facilitate continuity in each of the individual's traits (Hartup, 1996;Kupersmidt, DeRosier, & Patterson, 1995;Rubin, Lynch, Coplan, Rose-Krasnor, & Booth, 1994). However, proactive selection of peers might also function to discourage continuity of traits.…”

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Does infancy matter? predicting social behavior from infant temperament

Fox

Henderson

1999

Infant Behavior and Development

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In this essay we argue that infant temperament, defined as behavioral styles that appear early in life as a direct result of neurobiological factors, plays a significant role in the development and expression of social behavior. Temperament may be studied using a typological or dimensional approach and the relations between early temperament and later behavior can be examined in terms of homotypic or heterotypic continuity. The implication of each of these approaches for understanding the influence of infant temperament on social development is examined. As well, utilizing data from our laboratory, we suggest that under certain circumstances one can predict social behavior by identifying two temperament types in infancy. These types are high reactive/high negative infants and high reactive/high positive infants. A significant proportion of the high reactive/high negative infants display behavioral inhibition and social reticence through the preschool years, whereas a significant proportion of the high reactive/high positive infants display exuberance and positive social interaction through the preschool period.

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Does infancy matter? predicting social behavior from infant temperament

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Henderson

1999

Infant Behavior and Development

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“…Children who are similar in aggression and withdrawn behavior are known to be more likely to become friends than children who are not (Kupersmidt, DeRosier, & Patterson, 1995). Significant concordances among school-aged children and their friends have also been reported for personal construct use (Erwin, 1985) and self reports of sociability and aggression (Gest, Graham-Bermann, & Hartup, 1991;Hymel & Woody, 1991).…”

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Similarities between Friends and Nonfriends in Middle Childhood

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Similarities were assessed between target children (mean age, 11.1 years) and their friends and nonfriends, respectively. One target child of each sex (N = 192), along with one same-sex friend and one nonfriend, were selected from 102 participating classrooms. "Guess who" nominations obtained within these classrooms were used to measure prosocial behavior, antisocial behavior, shyness / dependency, and sociometric status; selfreports were used to measure depressive symptoms. Children and their friends were more similar to one another than nonfriends across the entire data set-as the participants were rated by their classmates and as their classmates were rated by the participants. Friendship similarities varied from attribute to attribute, being greater in antisocial behavior than in the other domains. Similarities between friends in sociometric status and size of the friendship network were also greater among socially accepted than nonaccepted children.

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“…Children who resemble each other in aggression and withdrawn behaviour are more likely to become friends than children who are not similar (Kupersmidt, DeRosier, & Patterson, 1995). In sum, the similarity of two relationship partners seems to be an important aspect of the quality of the relationship and of the functioning of the partners.…”

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Parent–offspring similarity in personality and adolescents' problem behaviour

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Similarity in personality between adolescents and their parents may have considerable implications for adolescent well-being. We studied how the similarity in personality between 288 adolescents and their parents is linked to adolescent problem behaviour, and whether this link is mediated by warmth and control in the parent-child relationship and moderated by the personality type of the adolescent. Similarity in personality between adolescents and their parents was negatively related to internalizing and externalizing problem behaviour, both concurrently and over time. This relation was not mediated by the parent-child relationship. The effects were present for overcontrolled but not for resilient or undercontrolled adolescents.

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Similarity as the Basis for Children's Friendships: The Roles of Sociometric Status, Aggressive and Withdrawn Behavior, Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics

Cited by 153 publications

References 21 publications

Does infancy matter? predicting social behavior from infant temperament

Does infancy matter? predicting social behavior from infant temperament

Similarities between Friends and Nonfriends in Middle Childhood

Parent–offspring similarity in personality and adolescents' problem behaviour

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