Peer Relationships, Child Development, and Adjustment: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective

Abstract

This chapter first traces peer experiences and relationships from their building blocks in infancy and early childhood through their advances in adolescence. It then discusses the major theoretical frameworks that have guided thinking and research on the importance and impact of peer relationships. The chapter illustrates some dimensions along which children's peer experiences may differ. Next, the chapter tackles the implications of problematic peer relationships. Research pertaining to reciprocal behavior between children and their peers to support a model of the processes underlying peer maladjustment is then reviewed. This model specifies the reciprocal roles of child social cognition and behavior and peer appraisals and responses in the unfolding of peer adjustment or maladjustment, with attention to the emerging understanding of emotion in this process. Finally, the chapter uses child social anxiety to illustrate how the principles of developmental psychopathology may guide the understanding of peer maladjustment.

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Jeffrey G. Parker, Kenneth H. Rubin, Stephen Andrew Erath, Julie C. Wojslawowicz, Allison A. Buskirk (2015). Peer Relationships, Child Development, and Adjustment: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470939383.ch12

@article{g2015peer,
  title  = {Peer Relationships, Child Development, and Adjustment: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective},
  author = {Parker, Jeffrey G. and Rubin, Kenneth H. and Erath, Stephen Andrew and Wojslawowicz, Julie C. and Buskirk, Allison A.},
  year   = {2015},
  doi    = {10.1002/9780470939383.ch12}
}

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