Applying the Interpersonal Circumplex Model to Children's Social Goals: Connections With Peer Reported Behavior and Sociometric Status
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Keywords
social goals, social adjustment, interpersonal circumplex, agency, communality, peer reported social behavior, sociometric status
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.41.5.699
Abstract
The objective of the present research was to develop an assessment model for children's social goals. The aims were (a) to fit children's social goals to a circumplex model and to examine links between goals and peer-reported social behaviors (aggression, withdrawal, and prosocial behavior) in a sample of 276 participants (134 girls, 11- to 12-year-olds) and (b) to replicate these findings and examine whether social behavior mediates the relationship between goals and sociometric status in an independent cross-validation sample of 310 participants (143 girls, 11- to 13-year-olds). Results showed a satisfactory fit to the circumplex model and adequate psychometric properties of the goal scales of the new measure, the Interpersonal Goals Inventory for Children. Other findings included significant and meaningful relations between goals and peer-reported behavior. Social behavior mediated the relations between goals and sociometric status.
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No
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Developmental Psychology, v. 41, issue 5, 699-710.
Scholar Commons Citation
Ojanen, Tiina; Grönroos, M.; and Salmovalli, C., "Applying the Interpersonal Circumplex Model to Children's Social Goals: Connections With Peer Reported Behavior and Sociometric Status" (2005). Psychology Faculty Publications. 926.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/926
