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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2009): |
Socioemotional characteristics of elementary school children identified as exhibiting social leadership qualities.
Full Abstract
Elementary school teachers identified characteristics in 4 major socioemotional domains associated with children's social leadership: self-perception, social anxiety, attachment orientation with peers, and interpersonal goals and skills in close friendships. Participants were 260 4th- and 5th-grade students (126 boys, 134 girls) from 10 classes in a school in northern Israel. Social leadership skills were associated with positive self-perceptions in various domains, low social anxiety, secure orientation to peers, higher levels of relationship-maintenance goal, lower levels of revenge goal in close friendships, and-unexpectedly-lower levels of accommodation as a strategy to solve conflicts with a friend. Positive self-concept and attachment security were indirectly associated with leadership qualities through their significant association with prosocial orientation skills. The authors discuss these findings as reflecting an internalization of positive model of self and positive model of others in children who exhibit social leadership qualities. The authors also discuss implications of these qualities for school and class ecology, as well as the importance of culture.
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Author/s: Scharf, Miri (M); Mayseless, Ofra (O);
Affiliation: University of Haifa, Faculty of Education, Haifa 31905, Israel. scharfm(-atsign-)construct.haifa.ac.il
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: The Journal of genetic psychology (J Genet Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-Mar; vol 170 (issue 1) : pp 73-94
Dates: Created 2009/02/23; Completed 2009/03/30;
PMID: 19230521, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 3/30/2009, IMS Date: 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00)
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