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The architecture of high status among Finnish youth
Author(s) -
Caravita Simona C. S.,
Pöyhönen Virpi,
Rajala Irene,
Salmivalli Christina
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.2011.02034.x
Subject(s) - popularity , psychology , prosocial behavior , peer acceptance , construct (python library) , attractiveness , developmental psychology , aggression , social psychology , peer group , programming language , computer science , psychoanalysis
We tested the construct validity of a two‐dimensional model of high status, consisting of social acceptance and perceived popularity (hereafter, acceptance and popularity ) among Finnish children and adolescents. In addition, we investigated the correlates of the two forms of high status, as well as their relations to resource control. Participants were 563 boys and girls in grades four and eight, that is, aged 10–11 and 14–15. CFA and SEM models supported the hypothesis of acceptance and popularity representing distinct, yet associated constructs that have partly different correlates. Acceptance and popularity were most closely connected among grade four students, particularly among boys. Prosocial behaviour was associated with acceptance, whereas peer‐valued characteristics (physical attractiveness, athletic ability) and aggression were related especially to popularity. Popularity, but not acceptance, was positively related to resource control.