Search results for "Sociometry"

Normativité des choix sociométriques et différences sociodynamiques dans la représentation sociale des relations entre nations européennes

2007

Exploring sociometric between 39 different nationalities within Europe, we identified a social representation of relationship between these nations.

El clima social del aula entre los alumnos repetidores con sus compañeros a través de Agent SocialMetric

2015

En este articulo describiremos una plataforma computacional web, denominada Agent SocialMetric que simplifica al docente la obtencion, gestion y muestra del clima del aula dado por el grado y estructura de las relaciones de los alumnos en la clase, a traves de un agente de interfaz conversacional llamado Albert, con el que el docente interactua en lenguaje natural. Agent SocialMetric posibilitara que los docentes conozcan a los alumnos a traves de sus relaciones reticulares, estableciendo la estructura social de la clase. Circunscribiremos la aplicacion a un caso practico en el ambito de Educacion Secundaria y conoceremos el clima social de la clase donde hay alumnos repetidores y determina…

The relationships of family and classroom environments with peer relational victimization: An analysis of their gender differences

2010

This study analyzes the relationships of adolescents' perceptions of their family and classroom environments with peer relational victimization, taking into account that these relationships could be mediated by adolescents' self-esteem, feelings of loneliness, and sociometric status. These relationships, and their possible gender differences, were analyzed in a sample of 1319 Spanish adolescents (48% boys and 52% girls), ages 11 to 16 years (M= 13.7,SD= 1.5). A structural equation modeling was calculated for boys and girls separately. The findings suggested that the adolescents' self-esteem, loneliness, and sociometric status had a significant direct effect on peer relational victimization …

The importance of the analysis of the environment in the classroom to improve the educational inclusion

2015

El presente articulo defiende la importancia de analizar el clima de las aulas como primer paso para la mejora de los procesos de inclusión educativa. Concretamente se analiza el rechazo entre iguales en un aula. Inicialmente se describen los términos en los que se conocen los conceptos de rechazo-inclusión. Posteriormente se explica el diseño y los resultados de una intervención concreta en un aula de primaria. El análisis que se plantea muestra cómo además de cumplirse la hipótesis de un niño con problemas de inclusión en el aula, emergió un caso que hasta el momento no había sido detectado por la profesora. Por último, atendiendo a los resultados obtenidos, se concluye que es necesario r…

Opposites detract: Middle school peer group antipathies

2009

This study examines variability in patterns of peer group antipathy. Same-grade adolescent peer groups were identified from sociometric nominations of preferred affiliates in a community sample of 600 Finnish ninth-grade middle school students (mean age = 15.0 years). Hierarchical linear modeling determined characteristics of youths in actor groups (nominators) that predicted antipathy for youths in target groups (nominatees) on the basis of target group characteristics. Most antipathies were based on dissimilarity between groups representing the mainstream culture and groups opposed to it. The higher a peer group’s school burnout, the more its members disliked students in peer groups with …

Exploring wider well-being in the EU-15 countries: an empirical application of the Stiglitz Report

2012

We draw on the recommendations of the Stiglitz Report to select a set of economic and social variables that can be used to make cross-country comparisons of wider well-being. Using data for the EU-15 countries for 1999 and 2005, we show how three-way analysis can be used to extract synthetic information from a large data set to determine the main latent explanatory factors. In our case, we identify one dominant factor that we term the development profile, which is positively associated with the level of education outputs, technological progress and female labour market participation and negatively associated with the level of pollution. We rank the countries according to this factor and com…

"We are human beings" : a study on friendship and ethnicity in a finnish elementary school classroom

1999

Situation-specificity of children's social goals: Changing goals according to changing situations?

2007

Children's agentic and communal goals were examined in hypothetical conflict, group entry, victimization, and positive situations ( N = 310, 11—13 years). Multilevel modeling was used to separate the variation in goals to the between- and within- (i.e., situation-specific) individual levels. About half of the variation in goals was due to individual differences. Boys endorsed more agentic goals than girls. A positive perception of self was associated with more agentic goals, whereas a positive perception of peers was associated with high degrees of communal goals. In addition, agentic goals were associated with rejection, whereas communal goals were related to peer acceptance. Children aim…

Sociometric status of young adults: Behavioural correlates, and cognitive-motivational antecedents and consequences

2001

A cross-lagged longitudinal study was carried out to investigate whether social reaction styles and loneliness serve as antecedents and consequences of sociometric status among young adults. Behavioural correlates of sociometric status were also studied. Questionnaires measuring sociometric ratings, social reaction styles, loneliness, and group atmosphere were ”lled in by 154 students one week after starting at a new school, then half a year later, and ”nally, one year later. In Measurement 2, the participants’ social behaviour was rated by their classmates. The results indicated that social reaction styles, feelings of loneliness, and satisfaction with the group atmosphere prospectively p…

Obesity and Interpersonal Problems: An Analysis with the Interpersonal Circumplex

2011

This study examines the interpersonal problems profiles of obese individuals by cluster analysing the interpersonal problems circumplex scores of participants. The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems—Short Circumplex (IIP-32) was completed by 368 treatment-seeking obese individuals. These data were cluster analysed, and groups of obese subjects defined by varying interpersonal problems were compared with regard to psychological distress, self-esteem, body dissatisfaction, quality of life and binge behaviours. Cluster analyses of the IIP-32 resulted in four clusters, which occupied two quadrants of the interpersonal circumplex. Several differences in body mass index, psychological distress, …