Social Rejection By Elizabeth Millen Summary

In this Journal, it is written by the author Elizabeth A. Millen. Elizabeth A. Millen decided to do sociology research in terms of the specific issue of rejections among adults. The author starts off introduces the experience of rejections towards other that causes of painful and confusing from a child to a young adult which is during the process that adolescents are developing a sense of personal identity. While following up the authors interpretation of social rejection, the author also mentions the outcome of it in which in can later on cause school violence and having trouble in school. Not only can that factor occur but also the aggressive behavior, depression, and surprisingly suicide. All these factors according to the author have all been experienced with an adolescent peer rejection experience. The long-term factor of peer rejection will have a hard time on academic performance, issues as aggression, difficulties with loneliness, depression and self-concept. While the author is continuing on describing the factor of, the author is, however, unsure or less understood of how

Millen mentions that peer social rejection is called rejection sensitivity in adulthood. The author refers the rejection sensitivity in adulthood as an expectation of, acts in a particular way towards perceiving and are sensitive to apparent reactions. The author refers to the other research saying the more the child is getting rejected in the early age of childhood would most likely have a higher result of sensitivity to being rejected in adulthood. But she had said she is only focusing on the mental health outcomes of the social peer rejections. So far her research journal is not going off topic, it actually goes with the title that is mentioned in the beginning of the research journal. So far while reading the Elizabeth A Millen, it questions me if she had done enough research on her own to state her own information instead stating so many references of other