It's Lonely at the Top: Adolescent Students' Peer-perceived Popularity and Self-perceived Social Contentment
It's Lonely at the Top: Adolescent Students' Peer-perceived Popularity and Self-perceived Social Contentment
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DOI：
10.1007/s10964-018-0970-y
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发表时间：
2019-02-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Ryan, Allison M.
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作者：
Ferguson, Sharlyn M.;Ryan, Allison M.
年轻人对人气的渴望很高，往往比学业成就或友谊更受欢迎。最近的证据表明，在同龄人中被认为受欢迎(感知到的受欢迎程度)在青春期可能比广受欢迎(社交受欢迎程度)更有害。因此，这项研究试图更好地理解受欢迎的两个维度(感知和社交测量)如何有助于青少年自己对其学校社交生活的满意度和幸福感的看法，并假设受欢迎与青少年的社会满意度之间的关系将比以前用线性模型考虑的更复杂(和曲线)。在一系列等级回归中，青少年的同伴受欢迎程度和自我知觉的社会满意度被考察为沿每个地位连续体的线性和曲线关联。参与者是来自中西部两所中学的767名7年级学生(52%是女性，46%是白人，45%是非裔美国人)。通过同龄人提名(最受欢迎和最受欢迎的分别是)来评估感知和社交受欢迎程度。自我报告的社会满意度、最好的友谊质量、社会自我概念和学校归属感被评估为社会满意度的各个方面。结果表明，无论是高水平还是低水平的受欢迎程度，以及高水平和低水平的社交测量受欢迎程度，都预示着比中等水平的青少年更低的社会满意度、更差的最佳友谊质量和更低的社会自我概念。讨论了通过瞄准年轻人中不成比例的受欢迎程度来促进青少年心理社会健康的影响。
Popularity is highly desired among youth, often more so than academic achievement or friendship. Recent evidence suggests being known as popular among peers (perceived popularity) may be more detrimental during adolescence than being widely well-liked (sociometric popularity). Thus, this study sought to better understand how two dimensions of popularity (perceived and sociometric) may contribute to adolescents' own perceptions of satisfaction and happiness regarding their social life at school, and hypothesized that being popular would have a more complex (and curvilinear) association with adolescents' social contentment than previously considered by linear models. Adolescents' peer popularity and self-perceived social contentment were examined as both linear and curvilinear associations along each status continuum in a series of hierarchical regressions. Participants were 767 7th-grade students from two middle schools in the Midwest (52% female, 46% White, 45% African American). Perceived and sociometric popularity were assessed via peer nominations (most popular and liked the most, respectively). Self-reported social satisfaction, best friendship quality, social self-concept, and school belonging were assessed as aspects of social contentment. The results indicated that both high and low levels of perceived popularity, as well as high and low levels of sociometric popularity, predicted lower perceptions of social satisfaction, poorer best friendship quality, and lower social self-concept than youth with moderate levels of either status. Implications to promote adolescents' psychosocial well-being by targeting popularity's disproportionate desirability among youth are discussed.