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Direct linkBrass, Nicole R.; Ryan, Allison M. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study investigated the role of school context in changes in the behaviors associated with having high social status during early adolescence. Three waves of surveys were collected from students (N = 542, 53% girls; 44% Black, 44% White, 5% Hispanic/Latinx, and 7% other; 60% free/reduced-fee lunch) in the middle of their sixth, seventh, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Lu, Ting; Li, Ling; Niu, Li; Jin, Shenghua; French, Doran C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The concurrent and longitudinal associations between popularity, likeability, and prosocial behavior were evaluated in this three-year study of middle school and high school Chinese adolescents. The initial sample included 766 middle school (mean age = 13.3 years) and 668 high school participants (mean age = 16.6 years); there were 880 (399 girls)…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Adolescents, Peer Acceptance, Middle School Students
Zook, Joan M.; Russotti, Justin M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
This study examined early adolescents' beliefs about which academic self-presentation strategies hypothetical hard-working, high-achieving students should use with popular peers, adolescents' own use of self-presentation strategies, and links between popularity and self-presentation strategies. In response to scenarios in which popular classmates…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Peer Acceptance, High Achievement, Grades (Scholastic)
Ludden, Alison Bryant – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2012
The current research examines how social goals and perceptions of what is needed for social status at school relate to school misbehavior and substance use among rural adolescents (N = 683). Results indicate that social goals and perceptions of social status have differential links to problem behaviors depending upon adolescents' achievement.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Social Status, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement
Hirao, Katsura – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A self-report assessment scale of school connectedness was validated in this study based on the data from middle-school children in a northeastern state of the United States (n = 145). The scale was based on the School Bonding Model (Morita, 1991), which was derived reductively from the social control (bond) theory (Hirschi, 1969). This validation…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Peer Acceptance, African American Children, Validity
Francis, Becky; Skelton, Christine; Read, Barbara – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
In spite of research showing that pupils--particularly boys--tend to experience tension between high academic achievement and popularity with peers at school, some pupils continue to maintain simultaneous production of both. This article focuses on a sample of 12-13 year-old pupils, identified as high achieving and popular, to examine classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Peer Acceptance, Students
Chavous, Tabbye M.; Rivas-Drake, Deborah; Smalls, Ciara; Griffin, Tiffany; Cogburn, Courtney – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The authors examined relationships among racial identity, school-based racial discrimination experiences, and academic engagement outcomes for adolescent boys and girls in Grades 8 and 11 (n = 204 boys and n = 206 girls). The authors found gender differences in peer and classroom discrimination and in the impact of earlier and later discrimination…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Discrimination, Racial Identification, Grade 8
Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Mayeux, Lara – Journal of School Psychology, 2007
This study integrated research on aggression, peer status, and social and academic functioning across the middle- and high-school transitions. We examined how peer status and aggression are related to adolescents' expectations about their academic and social functioning in a new school system before the transition into that system, and their…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 8, Peer Acceptance, Adolescents
