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Establishing friendships represents a developmental task for children. However, the quality of some children's friendships is evaluated negatively by their friends. Other children even remain friendless. In order to investigate why some children have problems to solve this developmental task, the action-theory model of psychological control (e.g., Skinner, Chapman, & Baltes, 1988) was employed as a theoretical framework and adapted for the friendship domain. The model postulates that competence and contingencies represent constituents of objective control. Thus, competence and contingencies determine whether an exerted action results in goal attainment or failure. Consequently, the model differentiates between beliefs about competence and contingency (i.e., causality beliefs and goal difficulty). These beliefs represent subjective interpretations of actual competence and contingencies. The employed quasi-experimental approach tested the influence of differences in objective control on perceived control and its relationships with friendships...
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Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss, 2003
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English
Keywords:
Kind
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Peer-Group
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Freundschaft
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Soziale Integration
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Locus of Control
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Handlungsregulation
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Hochschulschrift
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