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The Effects of Observed Friendship Formation on Group Level Peer Experiences: A Study of Behaviorally Inhibited Preschooler

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dc.contributor Rubin, Kenneth H
dc.contributor Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.contributor University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
dc.contributor Human Development
dc.creator Fleece, Hailey
dc.date 2020-09-25T05:32:46Z
dc.date 2020-09-25T05:32:46Z
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-20T08:38:32Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-20T08:38:32Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.13016/qd46-mvht
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26421
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/117631
dc.description Early social withdrawal places children at a greater risk for later internalizing disorders and peer difficulties. However, positive friendships can serve as a buffer against this trajectory. Currently, very little is known about if friendships develop between preschool aged withdrawn children, and how this affects their group level peer processes. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether socially withdrawn children who made a friend demonstrated gains in social skills in their preschool classrooms over an 8-week period during which they had participated in an intervention designed to increase social interaction and decrease social reticence. Overall, the children who made a friend over the intervention period had less observed reticent behavior and more prosocial behavior in their preschool classrooms both before and after the intervention period. These children entered the intervention with more advanced social skills and were able to utilize them to develop a meaningful friendship.
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dc.language en
dc.subject Developmental psychology
dc.subject Early childhood education
dc.subject Behavioral inhibition
dc.subject Friendship
dc.subject observed
dc.subject Preschool
dc.subject social skills
dc.subject Social withdrawal
dc.title The Effects of Observed Friendship Formation on Group Level Peer Experiences: A Study of Behaviorally Inhibited Preschooler
dc.type Thesis


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