Eight-year-old Dwayne is pretty shy at home, where he is in the middle of 12 children, but extroverted at school, where he is the leader of his friends. What might be the reason for his personality change?
What will be an ideal response?
Peer groups have a powerful influence on which personality traits are encouraged and expressed, and peers can even override the child's situation at home.
You might also like to view...
Research has been conducted in efforts to find the relationship between divorce of parents and the functioning abilities of middle childhood children
One estimation has found _______ of children in stepfamilies have serious problems in at least one aspect of functioning compared to _________ of their peers in non-divorced families. 45%; 30% 20%; 10% 30%; 20% 10%; 5%
According to the text, David Gilmore (1990) concluded that in most traditional cultures, an adolescent boy must demonstrate three capacities before he can be considered a man. He must ____
provide, protect, and procreate || be proficient, pure, and political || be proud, perfect, and polite || perform, promote, and prosper || || ||