Sociometric Types and Social Interaction Styles in a Sample of Spanish Adolescents

  1. Inglés Saura, Cándido J. 1
  2. Delgado Domenech, Beatriz 1
  3. García Fernández, José M.ª 2
  4. Ruiz Esteban, Cecilia 3
  5. Díaz Herrero, Ángela 3
  1. 1 Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
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    Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

    Elche, España

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  2. 2 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

  3. 3 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

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Revue:
The Spanish Journal of Psychology

ISSN: 1138-7416

Année de publication: 2010

Volumen: 13

Número: 2

Pages: 730-740

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600002390 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

D'autres publications dans: The Spanish Journal of Psychology

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Résumé

This study analyzed the relationship between social interaction styles and sociometric types in a sample of 1,349 (51.7% boys, and 48.3% girls) Spanish adolescents. The results revealed that the proportion of prosocial adolescents nominated as liked by peers was significantly higher than prosocial with social anxiety, whereas the proportion of aggressive adolescents nominated by peers as rejected was significantly higher than the proportion of rejected-prosocial and rejected-with social anxiety. The percentages of sociometric types and social interaction styles varied significantly according to gender and academic grade. Logistic regression analyses showed that being prosocial was 48% more likely when adolescents are nominated by peers as liked, whereas being prosocial was 41% and 79% less likely when adolescents were nominated as rejected and neglected, respectively. Furthermore, prosocial adolescents were 67% more likely nominated by peers as liked, and were less likely nominated as rejected (42%) and neglected (78%). Finally, being neglected was 83% more likely in aggressive adolescents.

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This work was carried out via the Research Project SEJ 2004-07311/EDUC of the Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia awarded to the first author. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Cándido J. Inglés. Área de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Dpto. de Psicología. Universidad Miguel Hernández. Avda. de la Universidad, s/n. 03202 Elche. Alicante. (Spain). E-mail: cjingles@umh.es

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