Describe the characteristics of popular children, distinguishing between prosocial and antisocial children
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Popular children are those who get many positive votes from peers asked about their social preferences or asked to assess their classmates’ perceived popularity. Popular-prosocial children are both well-liked (socially preferred) and admired (high in perceived popularity). They combine academic and social competence, performing well in school and communicating with peers in friendly and cooperative ways.
Other popular children are admired for their socially adept yet belligerent behavior. These popular-antisocial children include “tough” boys—athletically skilled but poor students who cause trouble and defy adult authority—and relationally aggressive boys and girls who enhance their own status by ignoring, excluding, and spreading rumors about other children. Despite their aggressiveness, peers often view these youths as “cool,” perhaps because of their athletic abilities and sophisticated but devious social skills. With age, however, peers like these high-status, aggressive youths less and less, eventually rejecting them.
You might also like to view...
A normal chemical process in the body, resulting from exposure to sunlight, X-rays, and food, creates molecules or atoms that possess an unpaired electron. These atoms and molecules are called _______
a. cross-linkages b. DNA breakages c. free radicals d. antioxidants
The Pygmalion effect, or the tendency to treat others on the basis of some belief that influences their behavior in the anticipated direction, is also termed
a. tracking. c. attentional inertia. b. a self-fulfilling prophecy. d. a heuristic influence.