The social status-socioempathy relationship among mildly handicapped and nonhandicapped children: analysis of the person X environment fit.
The notion of person X environment fit was explored as a framework for understanding the relationship between the social status and socioempathy abilities of 234 nonhandicapped and 85 mildly handicapped children in special- and regular-education settings. The results revealed that the amount of discrepancy between actual and estimated social status varied according to child characteristics and the classroom placement settings in which those measurements were taken. Additionally, the person X environment fit model was found to be appropriate for describing the relationship between social status and socioempathy. That is, accurate estimators of social status were significantly more popular than underestimators or overestimators. In turn, underestimators were more popular than overestimators. The same relationships were found for estimates of rejection. The above relationships were examined for integrated and segregated classroom settings.
D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D004645:Empathy; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012928:Social Desirability; D012938:Social Perception