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Mingqi Li; Yan Li; Ziyue Cui – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Increasing research has indicated associations between popularity goal and adolescents' social functioning. However, little is known about the processes intervening and moderating these associations. We examined whether popularity status insecurity explained the longitudinal associations of popularity goal with depression and social behavior among…
Descriptors: Social Status, Peer Acceptance, Depression (Psychology), Social Behavior
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Winstone, Lizzy; Mars, Becky; Haworth, Claire M. A.; Kidger, Judi – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
Evidence on how different types of social media use contribute to digital stress in early adolescence is lacking. In-depth interviews were conducted with 24 13-14-year-olds. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, coded and thematically analysed. Themes were generated based on digital stressors specific to passive social media use (time-wasting and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Anxiety, Early Adolescents, Time Management
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Spadafora, Natalie; Al-Jbouri, Elizabeth; McDowell, Hannah; Andrews, Naomi C. Z.; Volk, Anthony A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
Classroom incivility is a critical concept relating to the academic and psychosocial well-being of children and youth. However, there has yet to be research investigating whether there are social benefits to this behavior in early adolescence. Therefore, the goal of this study was to explore the relationship between classroom incivility and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Well Being, Behavior Problems, Academic Achievement
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Strohmeier, Dagmar; Gradinger, Petra; Yanagida, Takuya – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
This study investigated whether social position (e.g., gender, migration, family status), intrapersonal-level (e.g., online risk behaviors, motives of Internet use), interpersonal-level (e.g., victimization and bullying), family-level (e.g., parental mediation), and class-level (e.g., teachers' mediation, ethnic diversity) variables predict…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Bias
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Ákos Bocskor – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
The paper investigates gender differences in coolness dynamics among early and middle adolescents in a Hungarian panel dataset, which followed students from grade 5 (age 11-12) to grade 8 (age 14-15). Drawing on Gender Prototypicality Theory, we expected significantly different gendered patterns in the association between coolness and various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Early Adolescents, Grade 5
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Kim, Jingu; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
The goal of this study was to examine the unique associations of aggression with peer status in a non-Western context. The moderating effects of peer community and teacher closeness at the classroom level and gender and grade at the individual level were considered. Participants were 1954 third to sixth grade students (M[subscript age] = 9.60…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Gender Differences
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Lan, Xiaoyu; Scrimin, Sara; Moscardino, Ughetta – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
The present study used a sample of Chinese rural-to-urban migrants in early adolescence to examine whether emotional awareness (EA) moderated the expected association between status-based discrimination and emotional-behavioral problems and whether patterns of associations differed across informants (self-report vs. teacher-report). A total of 169…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Correlation, Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems
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Wegge, Denis; Vandebosch, Heidi; Eggermont, Steven; Pabian, Sara – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
The present study examines the reciprocal associations between cyberbullying behavior and young adolescents' social status. For this purpose, a two-wave panel study with an 8-month time interval was conducted among an entire grade of 154 secondary school pupils (age 12-14). The survey featured items on traditional bullying and cyberbullying as…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Longitudinal Studies, Early Adolescents
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Franken, Aart; Harakeh, Zeena; Veenstra, Rene; Vollebergh, Wilma; Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
This study investigated the social status (i.e., popularity, likeability, and friendships) of adolescents with an early onset of externalizing behavior (i.e., alcohol use, tobacco use, and antisocial behavior). Building on Moffitt's dual-taxonomy model, it was hypothesized that early onset adolescents were more popular, but not necessarily more…
Descriptors: Social Status, Behavior Problems, Taxonomy, Social Networks
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Boor-Klip, Henrike J.; Segers, Eliane; Hendrickx, Marloes M. H. G.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
This study addressed the moderating role of classroom descriptive norms for overt and relational aggression, social withdrawal, prosocial behavior, and academic reputation in the association of behavior with social preference and popularity in early adolescence. Participants were 1,492 fifth-grade students ([x-bar][subscript age] = 10.6 years,…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Peer Acceptance, Correlation, Aggression
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Müller, Christoph M.; Hofmann, Verena; Arm, Sybille – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
Early adolescents vary in their susceptibility to peer influence on delinquency. However, it is still less clear which factors explain this variation and how these factors relate to each other. In this study, 10 factors that may moderate peer influence were investigated. A sample of 868 participants was followed across six occasions from seventh…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Peer Influence, Prevention, Gender Differences
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Adams, Ryan E.; Bartlett, Nancy H.; Bukowski, William M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
The current study examined social dominance and peer victimization as possible intervening and moderating variables of the association between peer liking and relational aggression because previous findings suggest that social dominance and peer victimization are important for predicting the acceptableness and success of aggression. A total of 367…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Aggression, Social Status