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Wargo Aikins, Julie; Collibee, Charlene; Cunningham, Jessica – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
Despite its omnipresence, quantitative research examining both the nature and the function of adolescent gossip has been limited. The present study aimed to address this limitation in the literature by examining the nature and function of adolescent gossip; in particular, it aimed to explore observed differences between the gossip of those popular…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Social Status
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Carlerby, Heidi; Viitasara, Eija; Knutsson, Anders; Gadin, Katja Gillander – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This study aimed to analyze how bullying involvement is associated with the distribution of parental background and with subjective health complaints (SHC) among Swedish boys and girls. Data were collected from the World Health Organization, Health Behavior in School-aged Children (WHO/HBSC) survey, measurement years 1997/1998, 2001/2002 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Health Behavior, Adolescents
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Choukas-Bradley, Sophia; Giletta, Matteo; Widman, Laura; Cohen, Geoffrey L.; Prinstein, Mitchell J. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
A performance-based measure of peer influence susceptibility was examined as a moderator of the longitudinal association between peer norms and trajectories of adolescents' number of sexual intercourse partners. Seventy-one 9th grade adolescents (52% female) participated in an experimental "chat room" paradigm involving…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Sexuality
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Sachkova, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
The purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of the intragroup relations between the middle-status adolescents in a student group and the other status categories. It is assumed that the social and psychological portrait of an open adolescent student group, the character of the orientation and the level of its development, and the…
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Social Status, Group Behavior