The relation between oral communicative competence and sociometric status is expected to be interactional and transactional rather than unidirectional¶

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q1 i? The authors argue the relation is unlikely to go one way; the two components are expected to be mutually strengthening and to continue influencing each other. → Femke van der Wilt 2019

Evidence¶

Femke van der Wilt 2019¶

Femke van der Wilt, Chiel van der Veen, Claudia van Kruistum, Bert van Oers (2019). Why Do Children Become Rejected by Their Peers? A Review of Studies into the Relationship Between Oral Communicative Competence and Sociometric Status in Childhood. Educational Psychology Review (2019) 31:699–724. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-019-09479-z

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Authors' interpretation, attributed to Parker et al. (2006): because antecedents and consequents of problematic peer relationships are extremely complex, neither direction alone is correct. This is a theoretical expectation, not a tested result; the review states there is still insufficient empirical evidence to answer the direction question.

"It is, instead, expected that they are linked in an interactional and transactional manner in which both components are mutually strengthening and continue to influence each other"

Discussion¶

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• Children with poorer oral communicative competence experience higher levels of peer rejection after controlling for gender, age, and SES — related
• Rejected and disliked children communicate less responsively and less coherently than popular or liked peers — related
• Oral communicative competence relates to peer acceptance only for boys and not to peer rejection, indicating gender as a moderator — related