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Strategies for making friends: Relations to social behavior and peer acceptance in early adolescence.

Kathryn R. Wentzel, Cynthia A. Erdley

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This study examined relations among strategy knowledge about making friends, prosocial and antisocial behavior, and peer acceptance at school during early adolescence. Based on a sample of 423 6th- and 7th-grade students, findings indicated that knowledge of both appropriate and inappropriate strategies for making friends was related significantly to both types of social behavior and to peer acceptance. Results also suggested that displays of prosocial (but not antisocial) behavior represent an intermediate process that links knowledge about making friends to peer acceptance. These results were obtained even when taking into account significant relations of IQ to strategy knowledge, social behavior, and peer acceptance

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Key concepts: Psychology, Peer acceptance, Peer relations, Social acceptance, Developmental psychology, Social approval, Social psychology, Peer influence