TY  - GEN
A1  - Kulawiak, Pawel R.
A1  - Wilbert, Jürgen
T1  - Introduction of a new method for representing the sociometric status within the peer group
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Sociometrically neglected children are not often liked and not often disliked by their peers. This kind of social information is known as social status. Evidence concerning internalizing behaviour of neglected children is as yet equivocal. Contradictory research results could possibly be attributed to methodological issues of social status classification methods. Therefore, we will paradigmatically emphasize insufficiencies of one social status classification method. Since arbitrary cutoffs (sociometric data) provide the basis for the categorical classification of social status groups, the classification approach lacks precision and consistency. Furthermore, social status classification discounts the multidimensional nature of a child’s social status (social status group affiliation is mutually exclusive), disregards between-peer-group differences in the sociometric data, and offers a peer-group-norm-referenced interpretation. By contrast, we will highlight some advantages of the newly introduced social status extreme points procedure, which describes a child’s social status in terms of the child’s adaptation to sociometric extreme points. The continuous social status extreme points variables offer a criterion-referenced interpretation (multidimensionality: degree of adaptation to each and every sociometric extreme point). The performance and agreement of both methods will be demonstrated using empirical data (N = 316 children within 22 school classes).
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 570 
KW  - sociometry
KW  - social status
KW  - sociometric status
KW  - peer status
KW  - peer group
KW  - sociometrically neglected children
KW  - internalizing behaviour
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43413
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434137
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 570
ER  -