Social Goals, Aggression, Peer Preference, and Popularity: Longitudinal Links during Middle School

Autor/inn/en	Ojanen, Tiina; Findley-Van Nostrand, Danielle
Titel	Social Goals, Aggression, Peer Preference, and Popularity: Longitudinal Links during Middle School
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 50 (2014) 8, S.2134-2143 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0037137
Schlagwörter	Social Influences; Goal Orientation; Peer Influence; Peer Relationship; Middle School Students; Correlation; Aggression; Preferences; Social Status; Power Structure; Predictor Variables; Longitudinal Studies; Foreign Countries; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Social Cognition; Factor Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Einfluss; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Peer-Beziehungen; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Korrelation; Sozialer Status; Prädiktor; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ausland; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Soziale Kognition; Faktorenanalyse; Statistische Analyse; Finnland
Abstract	Social goals are associated with behaviors and adjustment among peers. However, it remains unclear whether goals predict adolescent social development. We examined prospective associations among goals, physical and relational aggression, social preference, and popularity during middle school (N = 384 participants, ages 12-14 years). Agentic (status, power) goals predicted increased relational aggression and communal (closeness) goals predicted decreased physical aggression. Popularity predicted increases and preference predicted decreases in both forms of aggression. Goals moderated longitudinal links between aggression and popularity: Aggression predicted increases in popularity and vice versa for youth with higher agentic goals, and popularity predicted increases in physical aggression for youth with higher agentic and lower communal goals. Implications for research on social goals, aggression, and popularity are discussed. (As Provided).
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