Sociometric status


Sociometric status is a measurement that reflects the degree to which someone is liked or disliked by their peers as a group.

Developmental psychology

In developmental psychology, this system has been used to examine children's status in peer groups, its stability over time, the characteristics that determine it, and the long-term implications of one's popularity or rejection by peers.
The most commonly used sociometric system, developed by Coie & Dodge, 1988, asks children to rate how much they like or dislike each of their classmates and uses these responses to classify them into five groups:
While socioeconomic measures of status do not correspond to greater happiness, measures of sociometric status do correlate to increased subjective well-being, above and beyond the effects of extroversion and other factors.