The Role Of Cross-Group Friendship Facilitating Orphan, Status-Based Rejection Sensitivity Reducing

The orphans,status-based rejection sensitivity (RS-status) is the tendency to anxiouslyexpect, readily perceive, and overreact to rejection based on a child,s orphan status. With thefifth to seventh grades orphans from an orphan school as experimental research participants, thepresent research, using2×3two factors random experimental design and context-createdexperiments of fast friendship procedure, through the comparison of cross-group friendship andin-group friendship, examined the role of cross-group friendship facilitating orphans’ RS-statusreducing basic on different levels of friendship closeness. The research conclusions are asfollow:(1) The levels of RS-status of the orphans are decreased in varying degrees both after theorphans participating in cross-group friendship interaction and in-group friendship interaction.(2) In comparison with the context of in-group contact, the decreasing degree of the orphans’RS-status is significant more in the context of intergroup. Namely, the role effects of reducingorphan RS-status by cross-group friendship is better than that by in-group friendship.(3) Therole effects of reducing orphans’ RS-status by cross-group friendship are depended on thedifferent degree of friendship closeness. In another word, the role effect of high level offriendship closeness is superior to the role effect of low level of friendship closeness.Specifically, the role effect was influenced not only by the quantity of friendship closeness----thelength of time of establishing and consolidating, but also by the quality of friendshipcloseness----creation methods.