Heterogeneity of Popular Boys: Antisocial and Prosocial Configurations

Heterogeneity of Popular Boys: Antisocial and Prosocial Configurations The move from conceptualizing unpopular children as a uniform group to recognizing distinct configurations of unpopular children has been a key area of progress in the study of children's peer relationships (Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 1998). Some unpopular (e.g., peer rejected) children are highly aggressive, others are extremely withdrawn, still others are both aggressive and withdrawn, and others still resist classification along externalizing or internalizing dimensions (Cillessen, van …

…here were 34 Latino boys who were not included in the ethnicity analyses due to sample-size constraints. Of the 34, 9 (26.5%) were model, 4 (11.8%) were tough, 3 (8.9%) were low academic, 13 (38.2%) were passive, 1 (2.9%) was bright antisocial, and 4 (11.8%) were troubled. Latinos tended to be overrepresented among passive boys and underrepresented among bright-antisocial boys, but these differences were not significant. 3 Our initial system for classifying classroom ethnic composition differentiated between 23 classrooms that were over 60% European American and 12 multiethnic classrooms in whic