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Citation

García Bacete FJ, Carrero Planes VE, Marande Perrin G, Musitu Ochoa G. Front. Psychol. 2017; 8: e462.

Affiliation

Department of Education and Social Psychology, Pablo de Olavide UniversitSevilla, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00462

PMID

28421008

PMCID

PMC5378718

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this research was to obtain the views of young children regarding their reasons for rejecting a peer.

METHOD: To achieve this goal, we conducted a qualitative study in the context of theory building research using an analysis methodology based on Grounded Theory. The collected information was extracted through semi-structured individual interviews from a sample of 853 children aged 6 from 13 urban public schools in Spain.

RESULTS: The children provided 3,009 rejection nominations and 2,934 reasons for disliking the rejected peers. Seven reason categories emerged from the analysis. Four categories refer to behaviors of the rejected children that have a cost for individual peers or peer group such as: direct aggression, disturbance of wellbeing, problematic social and school behaviors and dominance behaviors. A further two categories refer to the identities arising from the preferences and choices of rejected and rejecter children and their peers: personal identity expressed through preferences and disliking, and social identity expressed through outgroup prejudices. The "no-behavior or no-choice" reasons were covered by one category, unfamiliarity. In addition, three context categories were found indicating the participants (interpersonal-group), the impact (low-high), and the subjectivity (subjective-objective) of the reason.

CONCLUSION: This study provides researchers and practitioners with a comprehensive taxonomy of reasons for rejection that contributes to enrich the theoretical knowledge and improve interventions for preventing and reducing peer rejection.


Language: en

Keywords

early elementary education; grounded theory; group; identity; norms; preferences; reasons for peer rejection; unfamiliarity

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