Stability and Change in Peer Relationships During the Transition to Middle-Level School

Journal of Early Adolescence - Tập 22 Số 2 - Trang 117-142 - 2002
Cindy Hardy1, William M. Bukowski1, Lorrie K. Sippola1
1Concordia U, Montreal, PQ, Canada

Tóm tắt

In this short-term longitudinal study, Canadian young adolescents’ peer relationships were assessed as students moved from Grade 6 in small elementary schools to Grade 7 in a middle-level school offering Grades 7 through 12. Sociometric nominations were conducted in May of Grade 6, monthly during the fall term, and in May of Grade 7. Peer rejection was stable; peer acceptance was less stable during the transition than subsequently. Girls experienced greater instability in reciprocated friendships than did boys, although girls and boys had similar numbers of reciprocated friendships overall. During the fall term of Grade 7, students lost old reciprocated friendships and formed new reciprocated friendships with previously unfamiliar peers. Girls were more likely than boys to nominate previously unfamiliar peers as friends. Girls from the large elementary school, as compared with other girls, established reciprocated friendships with peers who were unfamiliar from elementary school earlier in the fall term.

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Journal of Early Adolescence

Tập 22 Số 2

117-142

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