Full text: Brendgen, Rosemarie: Peer rejection and friendship quality

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As can be seen, the children's self-rated perspective and their friends' perceptions did not cor- 
relate very highly (approximately 5-12 % shared variance!), although both perspectives relate 
to the same mutually confirmed friendships. All correlations were positive, though. This 
means, that a high evaluation of friendship quality from one perspective more often was 
linked with a high than with a low evaluation of friendship quality from the other perspective. 
Specifically, the correlation was lowest for perceived fun r=.22, SE =07, p.001, a little 
higher for perceived closeness, r=30, SE =.05, p.001, and highest for perceived conflict, 
r=.34, SE =.05, p#.001. 20 
2.1.5.2.4. Testing the equality of the latent mean levels 
In the last set of models, the means of the latent constructs were tested for equivalence across 
perspectives and groups. First, in Model 10, I tested whether the means of the friend-rated 
constructs could be equated to the means of the corresponding self-rated constructs (i.e., they 
were fixed to zero in the first group and constrained to be equal in the second group). No 
cross-group equality constraints were set at this point, yet. No difference in fit occured as 
compared to Model 3, Ay2(6) - 6.91, p-329, indicating that, on average, friendship quality 
was perceived to be the same from the self-rated and the friend-rated perspective. In other 
words, although there was only a moderate amount of agreement between the self-rated and 
friend-rated evaluations of the subjective friendship aspects, no general bias in friendship 
evaluation existed from either perspective in the overall group. In the final test, Model 11, the 
means of all latent constructs were additionally tested for cross-group equivalence. For this 
purpose, the latent means in the second group were equated to those in the first group (i.e., all 
were fixed to zero). When compared to the previous model, no difference in fit was found, A 
x2(5) = 0.99, p =963, indicating that no random processes were affecting the latent construct 
means in the two random groups. 
These correlations were not significantly different from one another, though. Specifically, the equated esti¬ 
mate yielded a common correlation ofr= .30, SE -.04,p.001, Ax2(2) - 2.04, p=.361 (Model 9a).
	        
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