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Cooperative behavior as a function of interpersonal style in preschoolers
Author(s) -
McLeod Mark,
Nowicki Stephen
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1985.tb00887.x
Subject(s) - psychology , interpersonal communication , complementarity (molecular biology) , corollary , developmental psychology , interpersonal relationship , social psychology , style (visual arts) , function (biology) , history , genetics , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics , biology , evolutionary biology
A study of the effectiveness of preschoolers interpersonal interactions was conducted based upon a circumplex model of interpersonal behavior and the corollary complementarity hypothesis developed by Leary (1957) and Carson (1969) The interpersonal styles of 92 preschoolers' interpersonal interactions was rated in a naturalistic free‐play environment These ratings were used to obtain status and affiliation scores for each child which, in turn, were the basis for assigning subjects a complementary or an anticom‐plementary partner It was predicted and found that complementary pairs performed a difficult puzzle task more efficiently than did anticomplementary pairs The usefulness of the complementarity hypothesis and implications for its use in future research were discussed