TY - JOUR
T1 - The breadth of peer relationships among preschoolers
T2 - An application of the Q-connectivity method to externalizing behavior
AU - Hanish, Laura
AU - Martin, Carol
AU - Fabes, Richard
AU - Barcelo, Hélène
PY - 2008/7
Y1 - 2008/7
N2 - Preschoolers' (Mage = 48.7 months) social breadth (the number of peer children interact with and the frequency of these interactions) and the relations between breadth and externalizing behaviors were examined using the Q-connectivity method. After considering age, sex, and classroom effects on social breadth, children's externalizing behaviors were studied in relation to levels of social breadth across variations in frequency of exposure to peers and to patterns of decline in social breadth. Externalizing preschoolers occasionally interacted with most of their classmates. However, their individual peer networks moderately to rapidly became selective, and they engaged in repeated interactions with a relatively small number of peers. Although there were no sex effects, significant age and classroom effects were obtained.
AB - Preschoolers' (Mage = 48.7 months) social breadth (the number of peer children interact with and the frequency of these interactions) and the relations between breadth and externalizing behaviors were examined using the Q-connectivity method. After considering age, sex, and classroom effects on social breadth, children's externalizing behaviors were studied in relation to levels of social breadth across variations in frequency of exposure to peers and to patterns of decline in social breadth. Externalizing preschoolers occasionally interacted with most of their classmates. However, their individual peer networks moderately to rapidly became selective, and they engaged in repeated interactions with a relatively small number of peers. Although there were no sex effects, significant age and classroom effects were obtained.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01179.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01179.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 18717910
AN - SCOPUS:47249116555
SN - 0009-3920
VL - 79
SP - 1119
EP - 1136
JO - Child development
JF - Child development
IS - 4
ER -