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- Title
Development of social problem solving in early childhood: stability, change, and associations with social competence.
- Authors
Mayeux, Lara; Cillessen, Antonius H N
- Abstract
Kindergarten and 1st-grade boys were administered social cognitive interviews in 2 consecutive years to investigate the response-generation step of N. R. Crick and K. A. Dodge's (1994) social information processing model. Boys generated responses to 4 types of hypothetical social dilemmas. Responses to these situations were primarily prosocial, with a large minority of avoidant and antisocial solutions. In general, older boys provided more effective solutions than did their younger peers, and stabilities were modest but significant for subcategories of both prosocial and antisocial responses. Boys who were accepted by their peers provided more prosocial and effective solutions than did boys of lower peer status, but no status differences emerged for antisocial responses. The data also suggest that young children view aggression as an acceptable means to solving peer conflict.
- Publication
The Journal of genetic psychology, 2003, Vol 164, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0022-1325
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/00221320309597975