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Leadership, Social Networks and Personal
Attributes in School Age Girls
Edwards, Cynthia Allen
Dissertation. University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill 1990
Purpose:
"Assess the relationship between leadership,
social networks, and personal attributes
among naturally occurring and semi-structured
groups of school age girls in a summer camp
setting"
Sample:
159 girls, grades 3 - 9, attending a Girl
Scout summer camp.
Methods/Instruments:
Counselor rating scales, peer nominations,
"peer produced sociometric measures."
Results:
- Leaders described by their peers as
being friendly, thoughtful and organized.
- Leaders were scored by their counselors
as being more effective than non-leaders,
however, no significant differences were
found in empathy scores.
- Subjects centrally located in their
peer social network were more frequently
nominated by their peers as leaders and
rated more highly as leaders by their
counselors.
- Leadership status was shown to have
consistency across different social settings.
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