Psychological Development and Education ›› 2003, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (4): 70-74.

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Loneliness as a Function of Sociometric Status and Self-Perceived Social Competence in Middle Childhood

ZHOU Zong-kui1, ZHAO Dong-mei1, CHEN Jing1, JIANG Jing-chuan1, Rachel Hundley2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China;
    2. Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, America
  • Online:2003-10-15 Published:2003-10-15

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Abstract: Scales and peer nomination were used to examine the relations between sociometric status,self-perceived social competence and loneliness in a sample of 554 primary students from Grades 3～6.The results indicated that (1)There was significant gender difference on scores of loneliness,and boys scored higher than girls.(2)There was significant sociometric group difference on scores of loneliness.The low-accepted children scored significantly higher on loneliness than the normally-accepted and high-accepted,and the normally-accepted didn't score significantly higher than the high-accepted.(3)Among high-accepted children,those who perceived their social competence negatively scored higher on loneliness than those who did averagely,and those who did averagely scored higher than those who did positively;but among normally-accepted and low-accepted children,there were no such findings.

Key words: sociometric status, self-perceived social competence, loneliness

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  • B844.1
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