Interpersonal Perceptions of Adverse Peer Experiences in First-Grade Students.

The aim of this study was to identify which adverse peer experiences better predict perceived negative peer relationships among elementary school first graders according to sex. The peer experiences examined were peer rejection, peer victimization, and mutual antipathy; the interpersonal perceptions studied were perceived peer victimization, dyadic meta-perception of peer disliking, and loneliness. The participants were 809 children ( = 6.

Understanding Rejection between First-and-Second-Grade Elementary Students through Reasons Expressed by Rejecters.

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