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ERIC Number: EJ1228770
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Classroom Popularity Hierarchy Predicts Prosocial and Aggressive Popularity Norms across the School Year
Laninga-Wijnen, Lydia; Harakeh, Zeena; Garandeau, Claire F.; Dijkstra, Jan K.; Veenstra, René; Vollebergh, Wilma A. M.
Child Development, v90 n5 e637-e653 Sep-Oct 2019
This study examined the coevolution of prosocial and aggressive popularity norms with popularity hierarchy (asymmetries in students' popularity). Cross-lagged-panel analyses were conducted on 2,843 secondary school students (N[subscript classrooms] = 120; M[subscript age] = 13.18; 51.3% girls). Popularity hierarchy predicted relative change in popularity norms over time, but not vice versa. Specifically, classrooms with few highly popular and many unpopular students increased in aggressive popularity norms at the beginning of the school year and decreased in prosocial popularity norms at the end of the year. Also, strong within-classroom asymmetries in popularity predicted relatively higher aggressive popularity norms. These findings may indicate that hierarchical contexts elicit competition for popularity, with high aggression and low prosocial behavior being seen as valuable tools to achieve popularity.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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