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Preference-oriented popularity is analyzed within very first time area having fun with an excellent limited nomination sociometric procedure

Preference-oriented popularity is analyzed within very first time area having fun with an excellent limited nomination sociometric procedure

Each adolescent, his or her closest friend, and two other target peers named by the adolescent were asked to nominate up to 10 peers in their grade with whom they would most like to spend time on a Saturday night and an additional 10 peers in their grade with whom they would least like to spend time on a Saturday night. The raw number of like nominations each teen received was standardized within grade level before being added to the main data set as the primary measure of popularity following the procedure described in Coie, Dodge, and Coppotelli (1982). This procedure resulted in a sample of 72 146 teens (depending on the grade level), comprising approximately 38% of the entire student population in these grades, who provided nominations of anyone in their grade at school. Grade-based nominations were utilized rather than classroom-based nominations due to the age and classroom structure of the school that all of the participants attended. The large number of raters for each teen (each received a yes no nomination from each participating nominator in his or her grade) means that this subsample of nominators is likely to yield fairly reliable estimates of popularity for each teen (Prinstein, in press). Preliminary analyses of the 1-year test retest stability of these popularity ratings over time indicating a 1-year stability coefficient of r = .77 (p < .001)>

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