@article{ref1,
title="Peer relationships and social competence during early and middle childhood",
journal="Annual review of psychology",
year="1999",
author="Ladd, G. W.",
volume="50",
number="",
pages="333-359",
abstract="This review demarcates major periods of empirical activity and accomplishment (i.e. &quot;generations&quot;) in research on children's peer relations and social competence during recent decades and identifies the investigative agendas that were dominant or ascendant during these periods. A sampling of studies that were conducted during the most recent generation of peer relations research is organized and reviewed in relation to two types of research objectives: (a) enduring agendas--aims from past research generations that have continued to serve as an impetus for empirical investigation during the 1990s--and (b) innovative agendas--newly emergent objectives that are predicated on novel conceptual issues or ongoing research controversies and deficiencies. This profile of continuity and change in investigators' research agendas provides a platform for delineating and analyzing recent empirical accomplishments in the field of peer relations research.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0066-4308",
doi="10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.333",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.333"
}