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ERIC Number: EJ409677
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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The Social Comparison Choices of Elementary and Secondary School Students: The Influence of Gender, Race, and Friendship.
Meisel, C. Julius; Blumberg, Carol Joyce
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v15 n2 p170-82 Apr 1990
Two studies involving 63 second through fourth graders and 43 ninth graders investigated the influence of gender, race, and friendship on social comparison choices. Implications of the results for social comparison theory and social policy and education practice are discussed. (TJH)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Friendship, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 9, Influences, Peer Evaluation, Predictor Variables, Race, Secondary School Students, Sex, Social Desirability, Sociometric Techniques
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Social Comparison
Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (93rd, Los Angeles, CA, August 23-27, 1985).