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- Title
Trajectories of social withdrawal from middle childhood to early adolescence.
- Authors
Wonjung Oh; Rubin, Kenneth; Bowker, Julie; Booth-LaForce, Cathryn; Rose-Krasnor, Linda; Laursen, Brett; Oh, Wonjung; Rubin, Kenneth H; Bowker, Julie C
- Abstract
Heterogeneity and individual differences in the developmental course of social withdrawal were examined longitudinally in a community sample (N = 392). General Growth Mixture Modeling (GGMM) was used to identify distinct pathways of social withdrawal, differentiate valid subgroup trajectories, and examine factors that predicted change in trajectories within subgroups. Assessments of individual (social withdrawal), interactive (prosocial behavior), relationship (friendship involvement, stability and quality, best friend's withdrawal and exclusion/victimization) and group- (exclusion/victimization) level characteristics were used to define growth trajectories from the final year of elementary school, across the transition to middle school, and then to the final year of middle school (fifth-to-eighth grades). Three distinct trajectory classes were identified: low stable, increasing, and decreasing. Peer exclusion, prosocial behavior, and mutual friendship involvement differentiated class membership. Friendlessness, friendship instability, and exclusion were significant predictors of social withdrawal for the increasing class, whereas lower levels of peer exclusion predicted a decrease in social withdrawal for the decreasing class.
- Publication
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 4, p553
- ISSN
0091-0627
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s10802-007-9199-z