Perception Accuracy of Affiliative Relationships in Elementary School Children and Young Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: There has been a rapid growth of studies focused on selection and socialization processes of peer groups, mostly due to the development of stochastic actor-based models to analyze longitudinal social network data. One of the core assumptions of these models is that individuals have an accurate knowledge of the dyadic relationships within their network (i.e., who is and is not connected to whom). Recent cross-sectional findings suggest that elementary school children are very inaccurate in perceiving their classmates' dyadic relationships. These findings question the validity of stochastic actor-based models to study the developmental dynamics of children and carry implications for future research as well as for the interpretation of past findings. The goal of the present study was thus to

SUBMITTER: Daniel JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5676090 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature