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Beliefs about the controllability of social characteristics and children's jealous responses to outsiders' interference in friendship

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dc.contributor.authorLavallee, Kristen L.
dc.contributor.authorParker, Jeffrey G.
dc.contributor.otherRuhr University Bochum
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T21:05:09Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T21:05:09Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAlthough some jealous children respond to outsider interference in friendships with problem solving and discussion, others withdraw from the relationship or retaliate against the friends or others. Beliefs about the nature of social characteristics are proposed as an explanation for behavioral heterogeneity in response to jealous provocation. Based on learned helplessness theory and research on children's implicit personality theories, children who subscribed strongly to the belief that social characteristics are fixed and that social outcomes are uncontrollable (high entity beliefs), were expected to more strongly endorse asocial and antisocial responses and less strongly endorse prosocial responses to outsider interference than children who did not have strong entity beliefs, depending on their internal versus external attributions of blame. Two hundred eighty-six children in sixth through eighth grades (primarily Caucasian) participated in an experimental test of this hypothesis. Although hypothesized interactions between beliefs and locus of blame were not supported, results indicated that children who believe social characteristics are changeable also believed they had more control in the internal condition than children who believe social characteristics are immutable. Further, pessimistic children were more likely to tend to endorse asocial and antisocial behavior and less likely to endorse prosocial behavior than optimistic children.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationLavallee, K. L., & Parker, J. G. (2019). Beliefs about the controllability of social characteristics and children’s jealous responses to outsiders’ interference in friendship. In V. Capraro (Ed.), PLOS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 1, p. e0209845). Public Library of Science (PLoS). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209845
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0209845
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/12004
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPLOS
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS
dc.subjectGENDER-DIFFERENCES
dc.subjectYOUNG ADOLESCENTS
dc.subjectIMPLICIT THEORIES
dc.subjectSELF-ESTEEM
dc.subjectATTRIBUTIONS
dc.subjectAGGRESSION
dc.subjectPREDICTORS
dc.subjectALTRUISM
dc.subjectSUCCESS
dc.subjectMultidisciplinary Sciences
dc.titleBeliefs about the controllability of social characteristics and children's jealous responses to outsiders' interference in friendshipen_US
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