scholarly journals Early Adolescents’ Social Standing in Peer Groups: Behavioral Correlates of Stability and Change

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 1084-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Lansford ◽  
Ley A. Killeya-Jones ◽  
Shari Miller ◽  
Philip R. Costanzo
Keyword(s):  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Behavioral Correlates ◽  
Stability And Change

Adolescent Popularity as a Nonlinear, Two-Dimensional Construct: Convergent Results From Three Large Samples

2021 ◽  
pp. 027243162110160
Author(s):  
Peter E. L. Marks ◽  
Ben Babcock ◽  
Yvonne H. M. van den Berg ◽  
Rob Gommans ◽  
Antonius H. N. Cillessen
Keyword(s):  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Composite Score ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Behavioral Correlates ◽  
Large Samples ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
Peer Nominations

The goal of this study was to advance the conceptualization and measurement of adolescent popularity by exploring the commonly used composite score (popularity minus unpopularity). We used standardized peer nominations from 4,414 early adolescents (ages ≈ 12-14 years) from three samples collected in two countries. Popularity and unpopularity were strongly related, but not linearly; scatterplots of the two variables resembled an L-shaped right angle. Subsequent analyses indicated that either including popularity as a curvilinear term or including both popularity and unpopularity as separate terms explained significantly more variance in social and behavioral correlates than linear, bivariate analyses using popularity, unpopularity, or composite popularity. These results suggest that researchers studying adolescent popularity should either separate popularity and unpopularity or treat composite popularity as curvilinear.

Primary Group Influence on Party Loyalty

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 757-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert McClosky ◽  
Harold E. Dahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Primary Group ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Group Influence ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Primary Groups

Political science, like other fields of social inquiry, has had an enduring interest in questions of stability and change. This interest—until now principally expressed in studies of the rise and fall of institutions—has lately been focused increasingly upon individual and group behavior, in a search for the influences that hold men to their political beliefs and affiliations or cause them to shift about. Such influences are important not only for the study of voting and party membership, but for haute politique as well—for the great and dramatic questions surrounding political loyalty, conformity, deviation, apostasy, and other states of membership or disaffiliation. Although the research reported below concentrates on the former, it is our hope that it may also cast light upon the latter. It is concerned specifically with primary groups—those small, face-to-face, solidary, informal and enduring coteries that we commonly experience as family, friendship and occupational peer groups.

Friendship Conceptions among Early Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study of Stability and Change

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Bukowski ◽  
Andrew F. Newcomb ◽  
Betsy Hoza
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Stability And Change

Stability and Change in Individual and Culture

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (38) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Gelman
Keyword(s):  
Stability And Change
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