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Bellmore, Amy; Jiang, Xiao Lu; Juvonen, Jaana – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
Although peer nominations provide invaluable data on social status and reputations of classmates, the large size and organizational structure of secondary schools pose a practical challenge to utilizing nomination methods. Particularly problematic is determining the appropriate reference group when students are no longer in self-contained…
Descriptors: Methods, Sociometric Techniques, Peer Relationship, Peer Acceptance
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Juvonen, Jaana; Ho, Alice Y. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
The goal of the study was to examine whether social motives (social mimicry, mutual attraction, and unreciprocated attraction) predict changes in antisocial behavior across middle school grades. The 2,003 initial participants (55% girls) were drawn from a larger longitudinal study of urban public school students: 44% Latino, 26% African-American,…
Descriptors: Social Status, Adolescents, Grade 8, Grade 6