By Antonius H. N. Cillessen, David Schwartz, Lara Mayeux

Specific emphasis is given to the hazards and merits of being well known. the amount studies learn linking recognition to substance use, terrible educational functionality, and different adjustment difficulties. members additionally handle the optimistic facet of recognition, together with its organization with social competence and management talents. in the course of the booklet, implications for prevention and intervention with teens are highlighted. learn more... content material: reputation as a social thought : meanings and value / William M. Bukowski -- Conceptualizing and measuring acceptance / Antonius H.N. Cillessen, Peter E.L. Marks -- Being there awhile : an ethnographic standpoint on acceptance / Don E. Merten -- Social recognition and recognition : precise kinds of peer prestige / Lara Mayeux, John J. Houser, Karmon D. Dyches -- attractiveness and gender : the 2 cultures of girls and boys / Amanda J. Rose, Gary C. Glick, Rhiannon L. Smith -- recognition as a kind of social dominance : an evolutionary viewpoint / Anthony D. Pellegrini ... [et al.] -- Prosocial abilities, social competence, and recognition / Julie Wargo Aikins, Scott D. Litwack -- reputation in peer crew point of view : the position of prestige in adolescent peer platforms / B. Bradford Brown -- Peer attractiveness within the context of ethnicity / Amy Bellmore, Adrienne Nishina, Sandra Graham -- the facility of recognition : impression strategies in youth and youth / Marlene J. Sandstrom -- The excessive rate of excessive prestige : acceptance as a mechanism of chance / David Schwartz, Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman -- towards a idea of recognition / Antonius H.N. Cillessen. summary: specific emphasis is given to the hazards and advantages of being renowned. the quantity studies learn linking acceptance to substance use, negative educational functionality, and different adjustment difficulties. members additionally tackle the confident facet of recognition, together with its organization with social competence and management talents. through the publication, implications for prevention and intervention with young people are highlighted

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To be popular means that one is a part of the group and apart from it at the same time. The popular person is valued by the group for what she or he does for basic group functioning. Groups give power to popular children. Ironically, this access to power may be a source of the risk. As a social construct, the meaning and significance of popularity are likely to vary across contexts. Understanding this variability is a challenge for peer researchers. By trying to understand how contextual factors influence what popularity means and how it affects well-being, peer researchers will obtain a richer view of how individuals 22 METHODS OF STUDYING POPULARITY and groups fit together.

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For example, van den Berg (2009) and Pennings (2009) collected popularity ratings, as well as most and least popular nominations, in grades 5 and 6 at three times during one school year. Peer ratings of popularity were highly stable in this study and positively correlated with popularity nominations. An advantage of ratings is that they can be used to divide the variance in peer judgments into actor, partner, and dyadic components (Malloy, Albright, & Scarpati, 2007; van den Berg, 2009), which is more difficult with nominations (see also Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006).

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