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Children were asked to respond to scenarios involving a negative social situation with an unclear cause by selecting from a fixed set of choices that assessed their attribution for the cause of the event, their emotional reaction to the event, and how they would behave in response. Peer nominations and sociometric ratings were obtained at a separate classroom visit, completed by a subset of all participants. On the measure of SIP, children with severe TBI were less likely than children with OI to make attributions of external blame or respond by avoiding the antagonist; they were more likely to report feelings of sadness and request adult intervention. Compared to children with OI, children with severe TBI also were more likely to have no mutual friends in their classroom. However, only avoidant responses were found to mediate the relationship between injury group and peer relationships, such that avoidance was detrimental to peer relationships (both peer acceptance and reciprocal friendships). Although children with TBI demonstrate poor peer relationships, the findings provide little evidence to suggest that SIP mediates the relationship between TBI and peer relations. Future studies should determine the relationship between SIP and children’s observed social behaviors, which mediate the relationship between SIP and peer relations.","abstract_html":"Children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often display poor social adjustment compared to children without TBI. Little is known regarding the nature of social deficits in TBI, but models of social competence suggest links between social information-processing (SIP), peer acceptance, and friendship. However, no studies to date have documented the relationship between these constructs in a sample of children with TBI. Participants included 8 to 13 year old children, 25 with severe TBI, 57 with complicated mild-to-moderate TBI, and 61 with orthopedic injuries (OI). Children were asked to respond to scenarios involving a negative social situation with an unclear cause by selecting from a fixed set of choices that assessed their attribution for the cause of the event, their emotional reaction to the event, and how they would behave in response. Peer nominations and sociometric ratings were obtained at a separate classroom visit, completed by a subset of all participants. On the measure of SIP, children with severe TBI were less likely than children with OI to make attributions of external blame or respond by avoiding the antagonist; they were more likely to report feelings of sadness and request adult intervention. Compared to children with OI, children with severe TBI also were more likely to have no mutual friends in their classroom. However, only avoidant responses were found to mediate the relationship between injury group and peer relationships, such that avoidance was detrimental to peer relationships (both peer acceptance and reciprocal friendships). Although children with TBI demonstrate poor peer relationships, the findings provide little evidence to suggest that SIP mediates the relationship between TBI and peer relations. 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