Sixth Graders’ Attitudes Toward School and Interpersonal Conditions in the Classroom

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Abstract
Analyses of data from fourteen sixth grade classrooms in a Midwestern metropolitan school system showed that: (1) Attitudes toward school were not related to the extent of friendship involvement but were affected in unexpected ways by sex and socioeconomic status (SES). (2) There was a positive relationship between “popularity” and school attitudes. (3) Interpersonal attraction and similarity of attitudes were generally positively related, particularly for high SES girls. Two kinds of classroom peer influences on the individual pupil were suggested: (1) Those emanating from direct interaction with peers who tend to be of similar (favorableor unfavorable) school attitudes and (2) modeling after high status peers who are likely to have favorable school attitudes.

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