The Effects of Observed Friendship Formation on Group Level Peer Experiences: A Study of Behaviorally Inhibited Preschooler

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dc.contributor.advisorRubin, Kenneth Hen_US
dc.contributor.authorFleece, Haileyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHuman Developmenten_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-25T05:32:46Z
dc.date.available2020-09-25T05:32:46Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractEarly social withdrawal places children at a greater risk for later internalizing disorders and peer difficulties. However, positive friendships can serve as a buffer against this trajectory. Currently, very little is known about if friendships develop between preschool aged withdrawn children, and how this affects their group level peer processes. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether socially withdrawn children who made a friend demonstrated gains in social skills in their preschool classrooms over an 8-week period during which they had participated in an intervention designed to increase social interaction and decrease social reticence. Overall, the children who made a friend over the intervention period had less observed reticent behavior and more prosocial behavior in their preschool classrooms both before and after the intervention period. These children entered the intervention with more advanced social skills and were able to utilize them to develop a meaningful friendship.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/qd46-mvht
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26421
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledDevelopmental psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEarly childhood educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBehavioral inhibitionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFriendshipen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledobserveden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPreschoolen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial skillsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocial withdrawalen_US
dc.titleThe Effects of Observed Friendship Formation on Group Level Peer Experiences: A Study of Behaviorally Inhibited Preschooleren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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