Original scientific paper

Acceptance of boys and girls in a group of pre-school peers

Lara Cakić ; Učiteljski fakultet u Osijeku Sveučilište J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku
Ivanka Živčić-Bećirević ; Odsjek za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci Sveučilište u Rijeci

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to establish whether boys and girls differ in terms of acceptance by their peers, social competence, behavioural problems, and in terms of adaptive responses in potential conflict situations. The intention was to examine the possibility of predicting the acceptance of boys and girls in a group of peers based on these parameters. A total of 240 children between 5 and 7 years of age participated in the survey.
The following were applied: the sociometric status rating scale based on peer assessment, the social competence scale, the preschool children behaviour scale for teachers’ assessment, and the technique of testing cognitions in potential conflict situations. The results show that boys and girls do not differ in terms of acceptance by their peers,
but girls were rated as more socially competent and with fewer externalised behavioural problems. When rating the acceptance of boys by their peers, social competence and behavioural problems emerged as significant predictors, while the significant predictor for girls was social competence.

Keywords

Acceptance by a group of peers; behavioural problems; social competence; preschool children

Hrčak ID:

82796

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/82796

Publication date:

15.4.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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