Author ORCID Identifier

Yang - https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4610-7439

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-3-2023

Publication Title

The Journal of Early Adolescence

Volume

43

Issue

9

First Page

1105

Last Page

1128

DOI

https://doi-org.leo.lib.unomaha.edu/10.1177/02724316221149414

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.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in The Journal of Early Adolescence on January 3, 2023, available online: https://doi-org.leo.lib.unomaha.edu/10.1177/02724316221149414

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