Early Adolescents’ Social Goals in Peer Conflict Situations: A Mixed Methods Study

Dunn, Courtney B.; Pittman, Sarah K.; Mehari, Krista R.; Titchner, Denicia; Farrell, Albert D.

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“…The social cognitive perspective in research underscores parents' and adolescents' interpretations of and justifications for disputes (Smetana 2011). Identifying one's own and others' intentions in peer conflicts may buffer against aggressive behavior during social conflicts (Dunn et al 2022), as advanced theory of mind enables adolescents to adequately understand others' intentions and behaviors and to solve social conflicts without violence.…”

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How Can Social Understanding in Adolescence Be Enhanced? Observations Based on Short-Term Conversation-Based Training

Sikorska,

Stępień-Nycz,

Białecka

2024

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Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by significant changes and intensified social interactions. The role of parents decreases and the importance of peer groups increases. Peers, especially friends, may deliver instrumental aid and emotional support; they may also promote a sense of security and be a significant source of affection and intimacy. Additionally, peer relations provide a testing ground for exercising many competencies necessary in complex social situations, such as social problem-solving, conflict resolution, and negotiation. The intensified contact with peers may also enhance adolescents’ social understanding skills. Therefore, practicing social understanding skills within a peer group may enhance one’s social functioning in adolescence. For these practical and educational reasons, we aimed to confirm the effectiveness of conversation-based training in these skills and identify what factors potentially support or hinder its effectiveness. Social understanding, the ability to understand oneself and others in various social situations, develops in childhood and adolescence. As this ability impacts satisfactory social functioning in adolescence and develops in a social context, a training process was proposed with the aim of enhancing the development of this ability based on the social-constructivist approach to social understanding. The efficacy of the training to enhance the understanding of one’s own and others’ mental states was verified using a sample of 65 Polish adolescents (mean age: 14.6 years). They participated in nine one-hour sessions and were divided into an experimental group (social understanding, n = 26) and two control groups: attention/perception (n = 17) and film/text literacy (n = 22). Although no direct effect of the theory of mind training was found, the results provided important observations for further work on adolescent social understanding training programs.

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Section: Importance Of Social Understanding Training For Mental Healt...mentioning

confidence: 99%

How Can Social Understanding in Adolescence Be Enhanced? Observations Based on Short-Term Conversation-Based Training

Sikorska,

Stępień-Nycz,

Białecka

2024

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Exploring social goal orientations, self‐perceptions and popularity with students attending regular and special education schools

Goagoses,

Eilts

2024

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Embedded within social dynamics and social‐information processing, the current qualitative study explores the social goal orientations, self‐perceptions and perceptions of popularity of students attending regular and special education schools in Germany. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with seven students in Grade 8, of which three were attending a special educational school specialised in supporting social‐emotional development. Students' endorsement of leadership, intimacy, nurturance and popularity goals were determined, with a focus on the strategies they employ for attainment within everyday social encounters. A range of strategies emerged, including communication strategies, humour and prosocial spending, which expands on past literature that only focused generalised behavioural tendencies and responses to conflict situations. Furthermore, students named both agentic and communal traits when describing how their peers view them. Lastly, students' perspective of popularity characteristics was explored, which thus far has only received minimal inquiry in Germany. This resulted in a collection of conditions, traits and behaviours required for popularity, with both similarities and differences in comparison to other European countries. The inclusion of both students attending regular and special education schools, offered new perspectives and contributed towards addressing knowledge gaps, generating insights and conceptual understandings, as well as offering directions for future research endeavours.

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Early Adolescents’ Social Goals in Peer Conflict Situations: A Mixed Methods Study

Cited by 2 publications

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How Can Social Understanding in Adolescence Be Enhanced? Observations Based on Short-Term Conversation-Based Training

How Can Social Understanding in Adolescence Be Enhanced? Observations Based on Short-Term Conversation-Based Training

Exploring social goal orientations, self‐perceptions and popularity with students attending regular and special education schools

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