Sentences with phrase «perceived social acceptance»

Further regression analyses revealed that, in addition to adolescents» perceived social acceptance and global self - worth, parental and neighborhood characteristics are significant predictors of adolescents» externalizing behavior problems.

The combined findings of mediation by loneliness but not by low perceived social acceptance seem to suggest that the acute awareness of being isolated from cliques — rather than the more indirect process of developing negative self - schemata concerning one's own role in this specific negative experience — underlies the association between clique isolation and subsequent depressive feelings.

This study examined whether clique isolation predicted an increase in depressive symptoms and whether this association was mediated by loneliness and perceived social acceptance in 310 children followed from age 11 — 14 years.

However, we found that the association between clique isolation and perceived social acceptance was only significant for boys.

The objectives of the present study were (a) to investigate whether clique isolation from age 11 to 13 years is a social risk factor for subsequent depressive symptoms in early adolescence; (b) to test the potential role of loneliness and perceived social acceptance as cognitive and emotional constructs underlying the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms; and (c) to explore possible sex differences in the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms.

Also, the possibility exists that clique isolation did not cause the internalizing problems measured in the present study (i.e., loneliness, perceived social acceptance and depressive symptoms), but that clique isolation was the result of internalizing problems.

Whereas loneliness mediated the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms, no such mediation effect was found for perceived social acceptance.

Moreover, we found that loneliness, but not perceived social acceptance mediated the association between being isolated from cliques and depressive symptoms in early adolescence.

The link between clique isolation and social anxiety (instead of depressive symptoms) could well be mediated by not only loneliness but also by perceived social acceptance.

Our finding that the probability of being isolated from cliques from age 11 to 13 years were associated with low perceived social acceptance seems to support the theory that children's self - esteem regarding their social competencies is based on their actual experiences in the peer group (Cole 1991; Harter et al. 1996; Mead 1934).

We also hypothesize that the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms would be mediated by loneliness and perceived social acceptance.

For instance, social anxiety is found to be related to problematic peer relations, perceived social acceptance and loneliness (e.g., La Greca and Moore Harrison 2005).

In addition, the finding that loneliness but not perceived social acceptance mediated the link between clique isolation and depressive symptoms provides insight into underlying cognitive - emotional constructs, which may be helpful in preventing depressive symptoms in early adolescence.

However, perceived social acceptance did not predict depressive symptoms at age 14 years above and beyond the association between clique isolation and depressive symptoms.

In particular children who are isolated from such friendship groups are expected to be denied of the possibility to attain positive group experiences including a sense of belongingness and support from other clique members, resulting in cognitive - emotional responses such as feelings of loneliness and low perceived social acceptance, and subsequent depressive symptoms.

Obese girls scored lower in these domains than obese boys and also had reduced perceived social acceptance.

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The Pictorial scale of perceived competence and social acceptance for young children.

Relations of social goal pursuit to social acceptance, classroom behavior, and perceived social support.

[jounal] Wentzel, K. R. / 1994 / Relations of social goal pursuit to social acceptance, classroom behavior, and perceived social support / Journal of Educational Psychology 86: 173 ~ 182

Overall, on average, siblings» peer relationships are similar to those of matched comparison peers in terms of number of friends, number of reciprocated friendships, level of peer acceptance, and self - perceived social support and friendship quality.