Gender Stereotypes

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This results of this study supported the hypothesis that girls will display more AS behaviour than boys, and that AS boys will confer greater risk of peer exclusion over time.
Contrary to Chaplin & Aldao (2013), the present study did find that girls have a greater prevalence of AS than boys, expanding upon the works of Doey, Coplan, and Kingsbury (2014) and French (1990) to locate this effect in early middle childhood. This similarity of prevalence combined with conceptual overlap affirms the value of shyness studies in the conceptualisation of an AS gender effect. Moreover, these results add empirical support to the implication that violation of male gender norms appears less prevalent as early as third grade (Caspi et al., 1988; Coplan et al.). Ultimately, these findings provide a clear theoretical platform from which to analysis projected peer interaction heterogeneity.
The present results empirically support Gazelle and Ladd’s (2003) diathesis-stress model linking peer exclusion and vulnerability for anxiety, and imply that AS boys confrere greater risk for peer adversity in the early school years than girls (Gazelle & Rudolph, 2004). …show more content…

Taken together, these results suggest that girl’s AS behaviour is primarily motivated by internal forces, while boy’s is simultaneously motivated by internal and external forces. Moreover, this highlights the profound detrimental effect confirmation of inhibition anxiety through PE has on persistence of maladaptive social and emotional development (Gazelle, 2003; Ladd, 2006). Developing a curriculum that fosters understanding and treatment of peer-related interpersonal stress is thus paramount for boys in particular (Gazelle,

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