Comparison Behavior in Elementary School Children

Abstract

In the psychology literature of recent years considerable research has been concerned with social comparison processes. In much of this work a core theoretical assumption is that when the individual is uncertain about how to evaluate himself or part of the external world, he turns to relevant others to gain greater certainty (Latane, 1966). Implications of this line of thinking and research would seem to be of immediate relevance to classroom situations. The writer

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