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).
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.
Not exact matches
Softening attitudes among police lags general public
acceptance but
seems to confirm an inexorable
social trend.