Beliefs about the controllability of social characteristics and children's jealous responses to outsiders' interference in friendship.

ABSTRACT: Although some jealous children respond to outsider interference in friendships with problem solving and discussion, others withdraw from the relationship or retaliate against the friends or others. Beliefs about the nature of social characteristics are proposed as an explanation for behavioral heterogeneity in response to jealous provocation. Based on learned helplessness theory and research on children's implicit personality theories, children who subscribed strongly to the belief that social characteristics are fixed and that social outcomes are uncontrollable (high entity beliefs), were expected to more strongly endorse asocial and antisocial responses and less strongly endorse prosocial responses to outsider interference than children who did not have strong entity beliefs, depending o

SUBMITTER: Lavallee KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6334908 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature