Psychological Development and Education ›› 2013, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 353-360.

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Relations between Peer Rejection and Early Adolescents’ Academic Achievement：the Moderating Effects of Peer Acceptance and Friendship Support

ZHANG Jing, TIAN Lu-mei, ZHANG Wen-xin   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • Online:2013-07-15 Published:2013-07-15

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Abstract: Experiences with peers constitute an important developmental context for early adolescence. Adolescents' peer relation can be understood by referring to two levels—in groups (peer rejection and peer acceptance) and in dyadic (friendship). Prior emphases on the main effects of different peer relation indicators on adolescent adjustments have been replaced by emphases on models that emphasize how sets of variables function together via moderation to affect outcome. But no clear and consistent conclusion about these interaction patterns between different peer relation indicators (peer rejection, peer acceptance and friendship) on academic achievement.So this study adopted peer nomination measure, the Chinese modified versions of the Network of Relationships Inventory and midsemester test score on 215 early adolescents from grade 5 and 7, analyzed the relation between peer rejection and academic achievement among early adolescents, and whether the relation can be moderated by peer acceptance and friendship support. The main findings were as follows: (1) Girls received higher academic achievement, and there is no other significant difference was observed between genders; (2) Peer rejection predicted academic achievement significantly for adolescents from grade 5 and 7, and the influence was no significant difference between genders; (3) In grade 7, peer acceptance moderated the relation between peer rejection and academic achievement: higher level of peer acceptance didn't compensate the negative effect of higher level of peer rejection on academic achievement , but the prerequisite for high academic achievement; friendship support can't moderated the relation between peer rejection and academic achievement for early adolescence.

Key words: academic achievement, peer rejection, peer acceptance, friendship support, early adolescence

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  • B844.2
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