Table 1 shows the differences in Peer acceptance, Peer rejection, Prosociality, Bullying and Victimization as a function of group (gender-referred versus control children).
Peer rejection, affiliation with deviant peers, delinquency, and risky sexual behavior.
For peer rejection, we found that male classmates rejected the gender-referred girls less than they rejected other girls.
For some mothers, empathizing with the pain of peer rejection is excruciating.
Social harassment refers to the use of peer rejection or exclusion to humiliate or isolate a person.
"Once you factor out peer rejection,"" he said in an interview,, "the effects of antipathetic relationships on adjustment are pretty slight".
There is no lasting damage, unlike secondary pathologies such as self-harming, eating disorders, depression, substance abuse and the consequences of dropping out of education, bullying and peer rejection.
For another, the results have been warped by a phenomenon called peer rejection: a small group of children are so different from their peers that they suffer far more than their share of bullying.
In a review of these types of studies in the current issue of the journal Developmental Psychology, Noel A. Card, a psychologist at the University of Arizona, corrected the combined results for peer rejection.
Early peer rejection predicted growth in aggression.
Peer rejection was related to subsequent risk factors for girls but not boys.
