Sociometric status
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Sociometric status is a measurement that reflects the degree to which someone is liked or disliked by their peers
Peer group
A peer group is a social group consisting of humans. Peer groups are an informal primary group of people who share a similar or equal status and who are usually of roughly the same age, tended to travel around and interact within the social aggregate Members of a particular peer group often have...

 as a group.

Developmental psychology

In developmental psychology
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to...

, this system has been used to examine children's status in peer groups, its stability over time, the characteristics that determine it, and the long-term implications of one's popularity or rejection by peers.

The most commonly used sociometric system, developed by Coie & Dodge, 1988, asks children to rate how much they like or disklike each of their classmates and uses these responses to classify them into five groups:
  • Popular children - Children are designated as popular if they receive many positive nominations.
  • Rejected children - Children are designated as rejected if they receive many negative nominations and few positive nominations.
  • Neglected children - Children are designated as neglected if they receive few positive or negative nominations. These children are not especially liked or disliked by peers, and tend to go unnoticed.
  • Average children - Children are designated as average if they receive an average number of both positive and negative nominations.
  • Controversial children - Children are designated as controversial if they receive many positive and many negative nominations. They are said to be liked by quite a few children, but also disliked by quite a few.
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