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Children\'s Social and Emotional Competence Levels and Friendship Quality According to Peer Status
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate how children\'s social and emotional competence levels related their friendship quality according to peer status. Peer Nomination(Coie & Dodge, 1983), the Social Competence Scale(Doe & Falbo, 1994), Emotional Intelligence(Institute of Daekyo, 1997), and the Friendship Quality Scale (Lee & Koh, 1999) were administered to 298 2nd, 4th, 6th elementary school students around the capital city. The data were analyzed through Cronbach\'s α tests, standard deviations, 3-way MANOVAs, Multiple Discriminant Analyses, Pearson\'s Correlations, and Canonical Correlation Analyses. The results of this study were as follows: 1. Children\'s social competence, emotional intelligence and friendship quality differed according to the grade of children and peer status. Sixth-grade children had higher leadership levels, emotional expression and emotional control than second and fourth graders. Popular children had higher leadership levels, emotional control, empathy, emotional expression, emotional stability, support and reliability than neglected and rejected children. 2. The children\'s social and emotional competence were presumably associated with friendship quality regardless of peer status. Leadership was the most powerful predictor of popular children\'s friendship quality, Leadership, social participation, and empathy were all important predictors of normal children\'s friendship quality, and social participation, empathy and emotional control were the influential predictors of neglected children\'s friendship quality and leadership levels and social participation levels were the most powerful predictors of rejected children\'s friendships.