Journal of youth and adolescence, 2014-07, Vol.43 (7), p.1123-1133
2014
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- Titel
- Inequality Matters: Classroom Status Hierarchy and Adolescents’ Bullying
- Ist Teil von
- Journal of youth and adolescence, 2014-07, Vol.43 (7), p.1123-1133
- Ort / Verlag
- Boston: Springer US
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2014
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- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The natural emergence of status hierarchies in adolescent peer groups has long been assumed to help prevent future intragroup aggression. However, clear evidence of this beneficial influence is lacking. In fact, few studies have examined between-group differences in the degree of status hierarchy (defined as within-group variation in individual status) and how they are related to bullying, a widespread form of aggression in schools. Data from 11,296 eighth- and ninth-graders (mean age = 14.57, 50.6 % female) from 583 classes in 71 schools were used to determine the direction of the association between classroom degree of status hierarchy and bullying behaviors, and to investigate prospective relationships between these two variables over a 6-month period. Multilevel structural equation modeling analyses showed that higher levels of classroom status hierarchy were concurrently associated with higher levels of bullying at the end of the school year. Higher hierarchy in the middle of the school year predicted higher bullying later in the year. No evidence was found to indicate that initial bullying predicted future hierarchy. These findings highlight the importance of a shared balance of power in the classroom for the prevention of bullying among adolescents.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0047-2891eISSN: 1573-6601DOI: 10.1007/s10964-013-0040-4Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1680151842
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- Schlagworte
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior - psychology, Adolescents, Aggression, Aggressiveness, Balance of power, Behavior, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Bullying, Bullying - psychology, Child and School Psychology, Child development, Classrooms, Clinical Psychology, Egalitarianism, Empirical Research, Ethnic Diversity, Evidence, Female, Females, Grade 6, Health Psychology, Hierarchy, Hierarchy, Social, History of Psychology, Humans, Inequality, Intermediate Grades, Law and Psychology, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Models, Psychological, Multilevel Analysis, Nominations, Peer Acceptance, Peer Groups, Peer Relationship, Peers, Popularity, Power, Power (Psychology), Prevention, Prospective Studies, Psychology, Resistance (Psychology), Schools, Secondary Schools, Social impact, Socioeconomic Factors, Status, Structural equation modeling, Structural Equation Models, Student Diversity, Students, Surveys and Questionnaires, Teenagers, Victimization