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The Role of Prosocial and Aggressive Popularity Norm Combinations in Prosocial and Aggressive Friendship Processes
- Source :
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(3), 645-663. SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 3, 49, 645-663, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49. Springer New York, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Prior work has shown that popular peers can set a powerful norm for the valence and salience of aggression in adolescent classrooms, which enhances aggressive friendship processes (selection, maintenance, influence). It is unknown, however, whether popular peers also set a norm for prosocial behavior that can buffer against aggressive friendship processes and stimulate prosocial friendship processes. This study examined the role of prosocial and aggressive popularity norm combinations in prosocial and aggressive friendship processes. Three waves of peer-nominated data were collected in the first- and second year of secondary school (N = 1816 students; 81 classrooms; Mage = 13.06; 50.5% girl). Longitudinal social network analyses indicate that prosocial popularity norms have most power to affect both prosocial and aggressive friendship processes when aggressive popularity norms are non-present. In prosocial classrooms (low aggressive and high prosocial popularity norms), friendship maintenance based on prosocial behavior is enhanced, whereas aggressive friendship processes are largely mitigated. Instead, when aggressive popularity norms are equally strong as prosocial norms (mixed classrooms) or even stronger than prosocial norms (aggressive classrooms), aggression is more important for friendship processes than prosocial behavior. These findings show that the prosocial behavior of popular peers may only buffer against aggressive friendship processes and stimulate prosocial friendship processes if these popular peers (or other popular peers in the classroom) abstain from aggression. Funding agencies: HSRD VA [SDR 10-012]
- Subjects :
- Male
PEER CONTAGION
Sociologi
CHILDHOOD
Poison control
Friends
050109 social psychology
Hierarchy, Social
Empirical Research
Social Networking
Sociology
ADOLESCENTS
Social Norms
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Psychology
Longitudinal Studies
media_common
HEALTH-RISK
Schools
4. Education
05 social sciences
Aggression
Health psychology
Psychological Distance
Prosocial behavior
Female
medicine.symptom
Social psychology
INTERVENTION
BEHAVIOR
050104 developmental & child psychology
Adolescent
Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject
Friendship selection
SOCIALIZATION
Peer Group
Education
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Valence (psychology)
Social Behavior
Students
Psykologi
SALIENCE
Popularity norm
Popularity
Friendship influence
Friendship
Social Dominance
Adolescent Behavior
Norm (social)
DEVIANT
NEGATIVITY
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00472891
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c0dcdab5a8d1ee4690308ab0b0557991