Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/6530
Title: Group Entry as it Relates to Various Elements of Adjustment: Exploring a Domineering Group Entry Style.
Authors: Isaacs, Jennifer L.
Cherniak, Aaron
Keywords: Senior honors thesis
group entry
Issue Date: Aug-2014
Publisher: New York, NY: Yeshiva College. Yeshiva University.
Citation: Cherniak, Aaron. Group Entry as it Relates to Various Elements of Adjustment: Exploring a Domineering Group Entry Style Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, August 2014. Mentor: Jennifer L. Isaacs Department of Psychology, Yeshiva University.
Abstract: Group entry behavior is essential to and even diagnostic of social competence (Dodge, Schlundt, Schocken & Delugach, 1983). It thus has important consequences for social adjustment, including peer acceptance and the ramifications of peer rejection. However, group entry has not been studied among adolescents and seldom in the context of school peer groups. The current inquiry, involving a compilation of self report and peer report questionnaires, examined distinct group entry styles identified by previous literature in a sample of 202 male high school students. This endeavor investigated implications of group entry style on social preference, social power, perceived popularity, relational aggression, and delinquency. Moreover, the study focused on exploring a heretofore overlooked style of pushy, domineering group entry that may or not be erratic but also may be skillful. Though hypotheses were supported modestly at best, this work prompts important questions – both concerning the growing body of knowledge about social development and the methodology used – addressed in the discussion section.
Description: Senior honors thesis / Open Access
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/6530
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