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Social Reputation and Peer Relationships in Chinese and Canadian Children: A Cross‐cultural Study
Author(s) -
Chen Xinyin,
Rubin Kenneth H.,
Sun Yuerong
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01698.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cross cultural , reputation , social psychology , sociometry , developmental psychology , sociology , social science , anthropology
480 children in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China, and 296 children in Southern Ontario, Canada, aged 8 and 10 years, were administered the Revised Class Play and a sociometric nomination measure. Factor analyses of the Revised Class Play items resulted in 3 orthogonal factors in each of the Chinese and the Canadian samples; the factor structure in the Canadian sample was somewhat more similar than that of the Chinese sample vis‐à‐vis the original factor structure. The variables that were formed by the same items loading on each factor in both samples were labeled ( a ) “sociability‐leadership,” ( b ) “aggression‐disruption,” and ( c ) “shyness‐sensitivity.” Consistent with the Western literature extant, it was found that sociability‐leadership was positively correlated with peer acceptance and the aggression‐disruption was positively correlated with peer rejection in both the Chinese and Canadian children. Shyness‐sensitivity was significantly and negatively correlated with measures of peer acceptance in the Canadian sample. Inconsistent with Western results, it was found that items describing shyness‐sensitivity were separated from items assessing isolation in the factor structure for the Chinese sample. Shyness‐sensitivity was positively associated with sociability‐leadership and with peer acceptance in the Chinese sample.