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Rejection Sensitivity and Children's Interpersonal Difficulties

Downey, Geraldine, Lebolt, Amy, Rincón, Claudia, Freitas, Antonio L·1998·Child Development
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06161.x
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Some children respond to social rejection in ways that undermine their relationships, whereas others respond with more equanimity. This article reports 3 studies that test the proposition that rejection sensitivity—the disposition to defensively (i.e., anxiously or angrily) expect, readily perceive, and overreact to social rejection—helps explain individual differences in response to social rejection. Data were from urban, minority (primarily Hispanic and African American) fifth to seventh graders. Study 1 describes the development of a measure of rejection sensitivity for children. Study 2 provides experimental evidence that children who angrily expected rejection showed heightened distress following an ambiguously intentioned rejection by a peer. Study 3 shows that rejection sensitive children behaved more aggressively and experienced increased interpersonal difficulties and declines in academic functioning over time.

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Authors
Downey, G., Lebolt, A., Rincón, C., & Freitas, A. L.
Affiliations
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Yale University (US)
Corresponding author
Downey, Geraldine
ORCID
Downey, Geraldine
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1998-08-01
Volume
69
Issue
4
Pages
1074-1091
ISSN
  • 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8624
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06161.x
OpenAlex
W1992292172
Cited by
417
References
49
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FWCI
4.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
  • Yale University
  • National Institutes of Health (1r29mh051113-01)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R29-MH51113)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
rejection sensitivity, social rejection, children, interpersonal problems, anger, defensive responding, peer rejection, aggression, academic functioning, individual differences, measurement development, Hispanic children, African American children
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Aggression, Anger, Anxiety, Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Projective Techniques, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reference Values, Rejection, Psychology, Self-Assessment, Social Adjustment, Social Perception, Statistics as Topic, Urban Health, Reproducibility of Results, Expressed Emotion

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