Criteria for Selection and Rejection of Social Relationships among Children in Urban and Rural Kindergartens in Greece

Autor/inn/en	Rekalidou, Galini; Petrogiannis, Konstantinos
Titel	Criteria for Selection and Rejection of Social Relationships among Children in Urban and Rural Kindergartens in Greece
Quelle	In: Education 3-13, 40 (2012) 2, S.173-188 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4279
DOI	10.1080/03004279.2010.506193
Schlagwörter	Criteria; Children; Personality Traits; Foreign Countries; Kindergarten; Rejection (Psychology); Social Development; Interpersonal Relationship; Urban Schools; Rural Schools; Social Influences; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Employment Level; Parents; Geographic Location; Peer Relationship; Play; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; Ablehnung; Soziale Entwicklung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Rural area; Rural areas; Ländlicher Raum; Schulen; Sozialer Einfluss; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Beschäftigungsgrad; Eltern; Peer-Beziehungen; Spiel; Griechenland
Abstract	This paper reports on preschool children's social relationships developed in urban and rural kindergarten classes in Greece. We investigated the selection and rejection criteria children use and examined potential criteria differences as a function of a number of socio-demographic variables (children's age group, gender, parental job status, region of kindergartens' base). The sample consisted of 70 children (30 boys and 40 girls), 4-6 years old, from one urban- and one rural-based kindergarten. The findings of the study indicated that: (1) the children used two criteria on average; (2) as they grow up, children's choices and explanations present a quantitative increase; (3) rejections are attributed to the level of their classmates' negative behaviour, mainly their aggressiveness; and (4) children's explanations for their positive selections seem to focus on their "common interests/play," "closeness/kinship" and "personality characteristics." These findings are discussed in relation to the study's hypotheses, which they support in part. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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