Yearning for Popularity: How Are Popularity Goals and Self-Perceived Popularity Related to Aggression and Victimization?

Autor/inn/en	Seo, Sunmi; Yang, Joo Young; McDonald, Kristina L.
Titel	Yearning for Popularity: How Are Popularity Goals and Self-Perceived Popularity Related to Aggression and Victimization?
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 43 (2023) 9, S.1105-1128 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Seo, Sunmi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/02724316221149414
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Grade 7; Grade 8; Junior High School Students; Peer Acceptance; Social Status; Aggression; Victims of Crime; Goal Orientation; Student Attitudes; Gender Differences; Christianity; Religious Schools; Alabama + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Schülerin; Sozialer Status; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Schülerverhalten; Geschlechterkonflikt; Christentum
Abstract	Many adolescents want to be popular. Popularity goals are associated with adolescents' relational and overt aggression and aggression has been linked to greater risk for victimization. The current study sought to examine if popularity goals may be linked to victimization through associations with aggression and if self-perceived popularity and gender may moderate these relationships. Participants were 292 adolescents (60.3% girls; 44.5% seventh graders, 55.5% eighth graders; 79.5% White/Caucasian) from the Southern United States. Results indicated that relational aggression accounted for the association between popularity goals and victimization and that self-perceived popularity strengthened this indirect effect for girls but not for boys. Overt aggression also partially explained the relation of popularity goals with victimization similarly for boys and girls. The findings suggest that motivations for popularity and self-perceived popularity are important to understanding variation in adolescent aggression and victimization. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01