Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups Book

I. Introduction: History and Theory
1. Critical Issues and Theoretical Viewpoints, Willard W. Hartup
2. Trends, Travails, and Turning Points in Early Research on Children’s Peer Relationships: Legacies and Lessons for Our Time?, Gary W. Ladd
II. Social Behaviors, Interactions, Relationships, and Groups: What Should be Measured, How, and Why?
3. Children's Behaviors and Interactions with Peers, Richard A. Fabes, Carol Lynn Martin, and Laura D. Hanish
4. Methods for Investigating Children’s Relationships with Friends, Thomas J. Berndt and Melissa A. McCandless
5. Sociometric Methods, Antonius H. N. Cillessen
6. Assessment of the Peer Group: Identifying Naturally Occurring Social Networks and Capturing Their Effects, Thomas A. Kindermann and Scott D. Gest
III. Infancy and Early Childhood
7. The Beginnings of Peer Relations, Dale F. Hay, Marlene Caplan, and Alison Nash
8. Peer Interactions and Play in Early Childhood, Robert J. Coplan and Kimberley A. Arbeau
9. Social–Emotional Competence in Early Childhood, Linda Rose-Krasnor and Susanne Denham
10. Friendship in Early Childhood, Carollee Howes
11. Structural Descriptions of Social Transactions among Young Children: Affiliation and Dominance in Preschool Groups, Brian E. Vaughn and António José Santos
IV. Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence
12. Friendship as Process, Function, and Outcome, William M. Bukowski, Clairneige Motzoi, and Felicia Meyer
13. The Behavioral Basis of Acceptance, Rejection, and Perceived Popularity, Steven R. Asher and Kristina L. McDonald
14. Social Exclusion in Childhood and Adolescence, Melanie Killen, Adam Rutland, and Noah Simon Jampol
15. Conflict in Peer Relationships, Brett Laursen and Gwen Pursell
16. Aggression and Peer Relationships in School-Age Children: Relational and Physical Aggression in Group and Dyadic Contexts, Nicki R. Crick, Dianna Murray-Close, Peter E. L. Marks, and Nazanin Mohajeri-Nelson
17. Avoiding and Withdrawing from the Peer Group, Kenneth H. Rubin, Julie C. Bowker, and Amy E. Kennedy
18. Bullies, Victims, and Bully–Victim Relationships in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence, Christina Salmivalli and Kätlin Peets
19. Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Experiences, Wyndol Furman and W. Andrew Collins
20. Informal Peer Groups in Middle Childhood and Adolescence, B. Bradford Brown and Erin L. Dietz
V. Distal Correlates of Children’s Peer Relationships
21. Sex Differences in Peer Relationships, Amanda J. Rose and Rhiannon L. Smith
22. Race and Ethnicity in Peer Relations Research, Sandra Graham, April Z. Taylor, and Alice Y. Ho
23. Neighborhood Contexts of Peer Relationships and Groups, Håkan Stattin and Margaret Kerr
24. Peer Interactions and Relationships from a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Xinyin Chen, Janet Chung, and Celia Hsiao
VI. Proximal Correlates of Children’s Social Skills and Peer Relationships
25. Genetic Factors in Children’s Peer Relations, Mara Brendgen and Michel Boivin
26. Temperament, Self-Regulation, and Peer Social Competence, Nancy Eisenberg, Julie Vaughan, and Claire Hofer
27. Child–Parent Attachment Relationships, Peer Relationships, and Peer-Group Functioning, Cathryn Booth-LaForce and Kathryn A. Kerns
28. Family Influences on Children’s Peer Relationships
Hildy Ross and Nina Howe
VII. Childhood Peer Experiences and Later Adjustment
29. Peers and Academic Functioning at School, Kathryn R. Wentzel
30. Peer Reputations and Psychological Adjustment, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Diana Rancourt, John D. Guerry, and Caroline B. Browne
31. The Role of Friendship in Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Development, Frank Vitaro, Michel Boivin, and William M. Bukowski
VIII. Translation and Policy
32. Deviant by Design: Peer Contagion in Development, Interventions, and Schools, Thomas J. Dishion and Timothy F. Piehler 33. Social Skills Training to Improve Peer Relations, Karen L. Bierman and C. J. Powers