Age difference existing between children may affect the quality and quantity of their interactions even when they are well acquainted, and bullying of younger peer can appear as well as rejection by own peers (Ratrup, 1983). Friendship and social interaction become better and stable with age: 2-3 year children old flirt with different playmates, while five years olds are faithful to one or two peers sometime (Brierman and Furman, 1984). This is because younger children are less differentiated in their perceptions of peer’s behavior than are older children. Coie and Pennington (1976), and younger, (1985, 1986) found that fourth and seventh graders were not differentiated in their social perception of their peers than first graders. This is because
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This gives all elements in the population and equal chance of being included in the final study sample. Two hundred (200) sighted boys and girls were targeted but only 185 correctly filled the questionnaire. They were selected using the systematic random sampling procedure using the class registers. Approximately 94 girls and 91 boys constituted the final tally of the study sample. Non probability sampling was used to select 16 visually impaired pupils, 12 parents of the visually impaired while all teachers (48) who taught any integrated classroom was selected. All the schools in the sample were selected on the basis of having at least one visually impaired …show more content…
Younger children appear to enjoy and accommodate successfully the demands of cross- age interaction and older children in such situations console, entertain, and help care for younger classmates. Children with young siblings seem to be more helpful.
This was contradicted by Thurnbull and Dixon (1981) finding that younger non handicapped children have been found to have less negative attitude towards their peers than older ones. However, Coie and Pennington (1976) and Younger et al (1985) found that fourth and seventh graders were more differentiated in their social perception of their peers than first graders. Their explanation was that, children gain social awareness with increasing age. Krason (1986), Shantz and Shantz (1985) in support of this position, reported that younger children have more difficulty in social
This gives all elements in the population and equal chance of being included in the final study sample. Two hundred (200) sighted boys and girls were targeted but only 185 correctly filled the questionnaire. They were selected using the systematic random sampling procedure using the class registers. Approximately 94 girls and 91 boys constituted the final tally of the study sample. Non probability sampling was used to select 16 visually impaired pupils, 12 parents of the visually impaired while all teachers (48) who taught any integrated classroom was selected. All the schools in the sample were selected on the basis of having at least one visually impaired …show more content…
Younger children appear to enjoy and accommodate successfully the demands of cross- age interaction and older children in such situations console, entertain, and help care for younger classmates. Children with young siblings seem to be more helpful.
This was contradicted by Thurnbull and Dixon (1981) finding that younger non handicapped children have been found to have less negative attitude towards their peers than older ones. However, Coie and Pennington (1976) and Younger et al (1985) found that fourth and seventh graders were more differentiated in their social perception of their peers than first graders. Their explanation was that, children gain social awareness with increasing age. Krason (1986), Shantz and Shantz (1985) in support of this position, reported that younger children have more difficulty in social