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Socialization of Physical and Social Aggression in Early Adolescents' Peer Groups: High-Status Peers, Individual Status, and Gender
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Shi, Bing; Xie, Hongling – Social Development, 2012
The influence of high-status peers on a target individual's physical and manipulative social aggression in peer groups was examined in a diverse sample of seventh-grade students. A total of 245 individual members belonging to 65 groups were included in analyses. Aggression was assessed by peer and victim nominations in the fall and spring…
Descriptors: Aggression, Early Adolescents, Grade 7, Socialization
Agentic or Communal? Associations between Interpersonal Goals, Popularity, and Bullying in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence
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Caravita, Simona C. S.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Social Development, 2012
This study investigated whether perceived popularity mediates and/or moderates the association between agentic goals and bullying, and whether sociometric popularity mediates and/or moderates the association between communal goals and bullying. Age and gender differences were also examined. Participants were 276 fourth and fifth graders (middle…
Descriptors: Bullying, Early Adolescents, Grade 4, Grade 5
Developmental Changes in the Priority of Perceived Status in Childhood and Adolescence
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LaFontana, Kathryn M.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Social Development, 2010
This study examined the degree to which children and adolescents prioritize popularity in the peer group over other relational domains. Participants were 1013 children and adolescents from grade 1 through senior year of college (ages 6-22 years) who were presented with a series of social dilemmas in which attaining popularity was opposed to five…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Young Adults
Status and Gender Differences in Early Adolescents' Descriptions of Popularity
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Closson, Leanna M. – Social Development, 2009
This study examined gender and status differences among sixth through eighth grade early adolescents' (N = 387) descriptions of what it means to be popular. More boys than girls specified being "cool", "athletic", "funny", and "defiant/risky", whereas more girls than boys identified wearing nice "clothing", being "attractive", "mean", "snobby",…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Females, Preadolescents, Grade 8
Contextual Variation in Stereotype Content: An Investigation of Children's Central Tendency and Group Variability Judgements
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Bennett, Mark; Sani, Fabio – Social Development, 2006
Drawing upon self-categorization theory, we predicted that the content of children's stereotypes concerning the gender in-group would be contextually variable. Two studies are reported, each looking at five-, seven-, and 10-year-old children's stereotypes of the gender in-group in two different contexts. Study 1 examined judgements of the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Classification, Multivariate Analysis, Stereotypes
They're Cool: Social Status and Peer Group Supports for Aggressive Boys and Girls
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Rodkin, Philip C.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Pearl, Ruth; Van Acker, Richard – Social Development, 2006
This study examined who among the 526 fourth to sixth graders are nominated as among the coolest kids in their class. There were two questions: (1) Are popular-aggressive (tough) children nominated as cool by a broad spectrum of their peers, or only by a select few? (2) Does variability in children's cool nominations more closely follow their…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Social Status, Aggression, Peer Acceptance