Antecedents & Subgroups of Peer Rejected Children

描述（由申请人提供）：同伴拒绝与儿童和青少年的严重适应不良有关的证据强调了早期识别和干预有同伴拒绝风险的幼儿的重要性。拟议的研究将通过检查儿童亚组的稳定性、不同报告者（即教师、家长和观察者）的影响以及儿童亚组中拒绝的早期前因来解决同龄人拒绝文献中的空白。参与者将从一项更大的纵向研究中选择，该研究考察了父母关于婴幼儿社会情感和行为问题、社会情感能力以及后来幼儿园和二年级社会情感和学业适应的报告。拟议的研究将重点关注两组儿童：(1)拥有父母和教师调查数据的出生队列中的所有儿童（预计N=719）；(2)从积极/被拒绝的亚组中随机抽取约150名儿童，收集观察性数据。数据将通过家长和老师填写的调查问卷以及对二年级课堂上孩子们的观察来收集。从这项研究中获得的信息将有助于确定有同龄人排斥风险的儿童，并制定预防和干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Evidence that peer rejection is associated with significant child and adolescent maladjustment emphasizes the importance of early identification and intervention for young children at-risk for peer rejection. The proposed study will address gaps in the peer rejection literature by examining the stability of subgroups of children, the effects of different reporters (i.e. teacher, parent, and observations), and early antecedents of rejection in subgroups of children. Participants will be selected from a larger longitudinal study examining parent reports of infant-toddler social-emotional and behavior problems and social-emotional competence and later social-emotional and academic adjustment in kindergarten and second grade. The proposed study will focus on two groups of children: (1) all children in the birth cohort with parent and teacher survey data (expected N=719) and (2) approximately 150 children randomly sampled across aggressive/rejected subgroups for whom observational data will be collected. Data will be collected through questionnaires filled out by parents and teachers and observations of children in their second grade classroom. The information derived from this study will be useful in identifying children at-risk for peer rejection and the development of prevention and intervention efforts.