Peer Relationships and Social Skills in Childhood

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Some Reflections on the State of the Art: The Study of Peer Relationships and Social Skills

      • Kenneth H. Rubin, Hildy S. Ross

      Pages 1-8

3. Social Skills

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Dyadic Interaction in the First Year of Life

      • Dale F. Hay, Jan Pedersen, Alison Nash

      Pages 11-39

   3. The Toddler’s Emerging Interactive Skills

      • Carol O. Eckerman, Mark R. Stein

      Pages 41-71

   4. Toddler—Peer Communication

      • Hildy S. Ross, Susan P. Lollis, Connie Elliott

      Pages 73-98

   5. Social Rules Governing Object Conflicts in Toddlers and Preschoolers

      • Roger Bakeman, John R. Brownlee

      Pages 99-111

   6. An Observational Study of Social Problem Solving in Young Children

      • Linda Rose Krasnor

      Pages 113-132

   7. Peers and Prosocial Development

      • Carolyn Zahn-Waxler, Ronald Iannotti, Michael Chapman

      Pages 133-162

   8. A Structural Approach to Research on the Development of Interpersonal Behavior Among Grade School Children

      • Carolyn R. Stone, Robert L. Selman

      Pages 163-183

4. Peer Relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Social Interaction in the First Year: Infants’ Social Skills with Peers versus Mother

      • Deborah Lowe Vandell, Kathy Shores Wilson

      Pages 187-208

   3. Social Relations Among Children: Comparison of Sibling and Peer Interaction

      • Debra Pepler, Carl Corter, Rona Abramovitch

      Pages 209-227

   4. Friends, Acquaintances, and Strangers: The Influence of Familiarity and Ethnolinguistic Background on Social Interaction

      • Anna-Beth Doyle

      Pages 229-252

   5. Fairness and Friendship

      • Thomas J. Berndt

      Pages 253-278

   6. Social Development Through Friendship

      • Jacqueline Smollar, James Youniss

      Pages 279-298

5. Individual Differences in Peer Relationships and Social Skills

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299

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   2. Toward an Applied Social Ethology: A Case Study of Social Skills Among Blind Children

      • Henry Markovits, F. F. Strayer

      Pages 301-322

   3. Peer Relationships of Young Children with Behavior Problems

      • Susan B. Campbell, Patricia Cluss

      Pages 323-351

   4. Social and Social—Cognitive Developmental Characteristics of Young Isolate, Normal, and Sociable Children

      • Kenneth H. Rubin

      Pages 353-374

Amy Rubin, the seven-year-old daughter of one of this volume's editors, was discussing with her close friend Kristin,. her teacher's practice of distributing stickers to her classmates for completing their seat work. As the conversation continued, Joshua, Amy's two-year-old brother (al­ though Amy would argue that he more often resembles an albatross around her neck) sauntered up to the older children. He flashed a broad smile, hugged his sister, and then grabbed her book of stickers. Corey Ross, the nine-year-old son of the other editor was trying to plan a tobogganing party with his friend Claire. The problem facing Corey and Claire was that there were too few toboggans to go around for their grade four classmates. Jordan, Corey's younger brother had agreed to lend his toboggan. However, Harriet, Claire's younger sister and Jordan's close friend had resisted all persuasive attempts to borrow her toboggan. The older children decided that the best strategy was to use Jordan's friendship with Harriet and his good example of sibling generosity in presenting thejr case to Harriet. Both of these anecdotes exemplify what this volume on peer relation­ ships and social skills is about. Children have friends with whom they discuss issues of perceived social significance. During the early elemen­ tary school years, rather sophisticated conversations and debates con­ cerning topics of reward distribution, altruism, person perception, social status, sibling relations, and cooperation can be overheard (especially by eavesdropping parents who have professional interests in such matters).

• Kind
• Sozialverhalten
• behavior
• communication
• conflict
• cooperation
• development
• interaction
• peer group
• perception

• Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Kenneth H. Rubin, Hildy S. Ross

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