Adolescents' Popularity-Motivated Aggression and Prosocial Behaviors : The Roles of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Social Status Insecurity

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.606865/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.606865/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.606865" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2021.606865</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adolescents' Popularity-Motivated Aggression and Prosocial Behaviors : The Roles of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Social Status Insecurity

Original language description

As competition over peer status becomes intense during adolescence, some adolescents develop insecure feelings regarding their social standing among their peers (i.e., social status insecurity). These adolescents sometimes use aggression to defend or promote their status. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among social status insecurity, callous-unemotional (CU) traits, and popularity-motivated aggression and prosocial behaviors among adolescents, while controlling for gender. Another purpose was to examine the potential moderating role of CU traits in these relationships. Participants were 1,047 (49.2% girls; Mage = 12.44 years; age range from 11 to 14 years) in the 7th or 8th grades from a large Midwestern city. They completed questionnaires on social status insecurity, CU traits, and popularity-motivated relational aggression, physical aggression, cyberaggression, and prosocial behaviors. A structural regression model was conducted, with gender as a covariate. The model had adequate fit. Social status insecurity was associated positively with callousness, unemotional, and popularity-motivated aggression and related negatively to popularity-motivated prosocial behaviors. High social status insecurity was related to greater popularity-motivated aggression when adolescents had high callousness traits. The findings have implications for understanding the individual characteristics associated with social status insecurity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN

1664-1078

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

000616704300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85101009446