Intensive and Extensive Peer Behavior: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Analyses

Abstract

WALDROP, MARY F., and HALVERSON, CHARLES F., JR. Intensive and Extensive Peer Behavior: Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Analyses. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1975, 46, 19-26. Data on peer relations were obtained when a group of children were 2?z years old and again when they were 7?1/ years old. The children who at age 21/2 were friendly, involved with their peers, and able to cope with aggressive peers were likely, at age 7?1/, to spend many hours outside school with peers, to be socially at ease, and to be the ones who decided with whom they would play and what they would play. In other words, sociability at 21/ was positively related to sociability at 71/?. Social behavior at 71 had very different meanings for boys than for girls. The highly social boys, when with peers, tended to have extensive peer relations; that is, they usually played with groups of boys. The highly social girls, when with peers, tended to have intensive peer relations; that is, they usually played with only 1 other girl.

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