Yvonne H M Van Den Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4637626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvonne H M Van Den Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvonne H M Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BERG Y H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9833-7722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Inflated Peer Status Self‐Perceptions in Youth: Overestimation of Likeability and Popularity and Adjustment Outcomes
Most research on self‐overestimation focuses on cognitive domains, yet its occurrence in social contexts remains understudied. This study examines overestimation of one's social status by comparing self‐reports of likeability and popularity with peer reports. Participants were 186 primary school students (51.1% girls; mean age = 10.5 years) and 1513 secondary school students (48.2% girls; mean age = 13.7 years) from predominantly White, middle‐cl…
Co‐Transitioning Peers Impact the Continuation of Victimization Across the Transition From Primary to Secondary School
The present two‐wave longitudinal study examined the stability of self‐ and peer‐reported victimization across the transition from primary to secondary school and the role of children's peer group in this stability. A total of 193 students from 36 primary school classrooms in the Netherlands (60% boys; M age T1 = 12.16 years) were followed as they transitioned into 37 secondary school classrooms. Their level of victimization before and after the …
How classmates’ evaluation of and behavior toward (victimized) children affects their well-being: An examination of implicit and explicit processes
As people have the need to belong, receiving negative social cues from group members can lead to poor well-being in the recipient. This may be even more pronounced in victims of bullying, yet these social cues may not only be communicated on a deliberate or explicit level. This preregistered study ( https://osf.io/4ksyz ) therefore examines classmates’ implicit and explicit attitudes as well as automatic behavior and deliberate behavior intention…
Friendships in Emerging Adulthood: The Role of Parental and Friendship Attachment Representations and Intimacy
The current studies addressed the associations between attachment representations with parents and a single best friend, intimacy behaviors (self-disclosure and support-seeking), and friendship quality in emerging adulthood, using the actor–partner interdependence mediation model (APIMeM). Study 1 ( N = 186 dyads) examined whether attachment to parents predicted friendship quality, and whether this was mediated by attachment to their best friend.…
Assessing youth's internal and external attributions to negative peer interactions and victimization—development of the Causal Attributions for Peer Experiences ( Cape ) scale
Many youth experience negative behavior from their peers, which can have lasting consequences for their social functioning and well-being. One mechanism through which negative interactions affect youth is causal attributions, that is, the interpretations that they make for why a negative interaction occurred. We present the newly developed CAPE (Causal Attributions for Peer Experiences) scale, which assesses youth's stable internal, unstable inte…
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood
Peer status is associated with social functioning throughout childhood and adolescence, but little is known about its’ long‐term implications. This study examined longitudinal associations of childhood and adolescent popularity with social behavior and status in emerging adulthood. In line with concurrent associations of popularity with social behavior, we hypothesized that childhood popularity would be associated with a positive, prosocial profi…
Being on top versus not dangling at the bottom: Popularity motivation and aggression in youth
Whereas research on aggression and status motivation in youth has predominantly looked at a promotion focus (striving for popularity), a prevention focus (wanting to avoid low popularity) could also be an important determinant of aggression, as youth who fear low popularity may use strategic aggression to secure their position. The aim of the current study was to develop reliable measures for both popularity motivations, and examine how both moti…
Can classroom seating arrangements help establish a safe environment for victims? A randomized controlled trial
Students around the globe still experience bullying daily. Teachers play a key role in supporting victimized students and they could do so using their classroom seating arrangement. Common teacher strategies are to separate victims and bullies and to seat victims close to supportive others, but research has not examined whether these strategies support victims' wellbeing. Therefore, the current study tested an intervention in which victims in exp…
Does being defended relate to decreases in victimization and improved psychosocial adjustment among victims
School bullying is a clear violation of children's rights to a safe education and is a major concern among school professionals and parents. Many antibullying interventions focus on enhancing peer defending of victims to combat bullying and to promote victims' psychosocial functioning. However, longitudinal studies on the effects of being defended on (a) diminishing victimization and (b) enhancing victims' psychosocial adjustment are lacking, and…
Perks of the Pandemic: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Socially Withdrawn Emerging Adults
Emerging adults were among those especially affected by the distancing measures and instability brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all emerging adults were affected equally. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to determine if different types of socially withdrawn emerging adults (shy, unsocial, avoidant, mixed-withdrawn) were affected differently from one another and from non-withdrawn emerging adults. Pandemic impact was measured …
The longitudinal link between popularity, likeability, fear of negative evaluation and social avoidance across adolescence
This study investigated the longitudinal bidirectional associations between likeability, popularity, fear of negative evaluation, and social avoidance, to aid in preventing the negative consequences and persistent trajectories of low social status and heightened social anxiety. In total, 1741 adolescents in grades 7–9 participated at 3 yearly waves. A self‐report questionnaire measured fear of negative evaluation. Peer nominations assessed likeab…
Teachers’ goals and strategies for classroom seating arrangements: A qualitative study
Teachers can use seating arrangements to effectively manage classroom dynamics. However, what do teachers aim for and how are they trying to achieve this when creating seating arrangements? We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 upper elementary school teachers. Teachers expressed to have both academic and social-emotional goals addressing the group and individual students. Although their goals were quite similar, teachers employed diffe…
The importance of considering and reporting sources of error in peer nomination research: A response to Bukowski et al
A wide variety of methodological choices and situations can affect the quality of peer nomination measurements but have not received adequate study. This article begins by focusing on systematic nominator missingness as an example of one such situation. We reanalyzed findings from a recent study by Bukowski, Dirks, Commisso, Velàsquez, and Lopez in the year 2019 and compared the results to recent findings of Babcock, Marks, van den Berg, and Cill…
Changes in adolescent loneliness and concomitant changes in fear of negative evaluation and self-esteem
Current theories of loneliness posit that biases in social information processing play a key role in the development and maintenance of loneliness. However, this assumption has rarely been tested in longitudinal research in adolescence. The current study concentrated on two constructs associated with such biases, that is, fear of negative evaluation and self-esteem. More specifically, we examined whether changes in loneliness were associated with…
Differences in Aggression and Alcohol Use among Youth with Varying Levels of Victimization and Popularity Status
Awareness that high-status adolescents can be targets of aggression has grown in recent years. However, questions remain about the associations of the confluence of victimization and popularity with adjustment. The current study fills this gap by examining the joint and unique effects of victimization and popularity on aggression and alcohol use. Participants were 804 Dutch adolescents (50.2% boys, M age = 13.65) who were followed for one year. H…
A Longitudinal Social Network Perspective on Adolescents' Exposure to Violent Video Games and Aggression
Adolescents play video games as a social leisure activity, yet it is unclear whether peer influences play a role in spreading violent video game exposure (VVE) and aggression. It has been suggested that adolescents' aggression increases because of their friend's exposure to violent video games. This study tests this suggestion by using longitudinal social network analyses to investigate selection and socialization of aggression owing to VVE. A to…
Emerging Adults’ Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Longitudinal Study on the Importance of Social Support
The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate emerging adults' mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether social support from mothers, fathers, and best friends moderated the change in mental health. Participants were 98 emerging adults (46% men) who were assessed prior to COVID-19 ( M age = 20.60 years) and during the first lockdown ( M age = 22.67 years). Results indicated that the pandemic did not uniformly lead…
Adolescent Popularity as a Nonlinear, Two-Dimensional Construct: Convergent Results From Three Large Samples
The goal of this study was to advance the conceptualization and measurement of adolescent popularity by exploring the commonly used composite score (popularity minus unpopularity). We used standardized peer nominations from 4,414 early adolescents (ages ≈ 12-14 years) from three samples collected in two countries. Popularity and unpopularity were strongly related, but not linearly; scatterplots of the two variables resembled an L-shaped right ang…
Adolescent Victim Types Across the Popularity Status Hierarchy: Differences in Internalizing Symptoms
Previous studies have called attention to the fact that popular youth are not immune to peer victimization, suggesting there is heterogeneity in the popularity of victims. Yet, no study to date has determined whether victims with different levels of popularity status can be identified using person-oriented analysis. Such analysis is critically needed to confirm the existence of popular victims. Further, there remains a paucity of research on inte…
Bidirectional Associations between Popularity, Popularity Goal, and Aggression, Alcohol Use and Prosocial Behaviors in Adolescence: A 3-Year Prospective Longitudinal Study
Adolescents’ popularity and popularity goal have been shown to be related to their aggression and alcohol use. As intervention efforts increasingly aim to focus on prosocial alternatives for youth to gain status, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of how popularity and popularity goal are associated with aggression and substance use as well as prosocial behaviors over time. The current study examined the bidirectional associati…
The Role of Aggressive Peer Norms in Elementary School Children’s Perceptions of Classroom Peer Climate and School Adjustment
Although prior research has indicated that peer norms for aggression enhance the spread of aggression in classrooms, it is unclear to date how these norms relate to students’ classroom climate perceptions and school adjustment. Aggressive descriptive norms reflect the average aggression of all students in classrooms, whereas aggressive popularity norms represent the extent to which aggressive behavior relates to popularity among peers. This study…
Preference and popularity as distinct forms of status: A meta‐analytic review of 20 years of research
INTRODUCTION: A systematic meta-analysis was conducted of the association between preference and popularity across childhood and adolescence. The role of development, sex, and region of the world were examined. METHOD: The analysis was conducted on 135 samples including 136,014 participants. The samples were divided by age (upper grades primary school, k = 41; lower grades secondary school, k = 72; upper grades secondary school, k = 22) and regio…
Dyadic nominations of bullying: Comparing types of bullies and their victims
Previous studies indicate that when identifying individuals involved in bullying, the concordance between self‐ and peer‐ reports is low to moderate. There is support that self‐ and peer‐ identified victims constitute distinct types of victims and differ in adjustment. Likewise, differentiating between self‐ and peer‐ reports of bullying may also reveal distinct types of bullies. The goal of this study was to examine differences between types of …
It's not just what you say, it's how you say it too. Adolescents' hostile attribution of intent and emotional responses to social comments
A highly prevalent and relevant situation in which adolescents have to interpret the intentions of others is when they interact with peers. We therefore successfully introduced a new paradigm to measure hostile attribution bias (HAB) and emotional responses to such social interactions and examined how it related to youth's aggressiveness. We presented 881 adolescents ( M age = 14.35 years; SD = 1.23; 48.1% male) with audio fragments of age‐mates …
The functions of aggression in gaining, maintaining, and losing popularity during adolescence: A multiple-cohort design
This study examined associations between perceived popularity trajectories and changes in proactive and reactive aggression in middle adolescence. The sample included 1,374 adolescents from 5 cohorts who were followed from Grade 7 to Grade 9 (49% males, M age = 12.67 years, SD = .67). Popularity trajectories were identified based on initial status and changes in status over time, and linear mixed effects models tested group differences in changes…
Popularity differentially predicts reactive and proactive aggression in early adolescence
Previous research has indicated that peer popularity is associated with aggressive behavior. However, it is not yet clear whether popularity is uniquely related to different functions of aggression. In this study, we examined associations between peer-perceived popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression using a cross-sectional and a longitudinal design. Yearly sociometric measures of popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression were g…
Identifying Subtypes of Peer Status by Combining Popularity and Preference: A Cohort-Sequential Approach
The purpose of this study was to identify and validate subtypes of peer status by integrating preference and popularity into a single framework. Person-oriented analyses were performed among 3,630 children and adolescents of different cohorts in primary and secondary education. In the young age groups (Grade 3/4 to Grade 7), three clusters were found: popular-liked, average, and unpopular-disliked. In the older age group (Grade 8), four clusters …
The functions of aggression in gaining, maintaining, and losing popularity during adolescence: A multiple-cohort design
This study examined associations between perceived popularity trajectories and changes in proactive and reactive aggression in middle adolescence. The sample included 1,374 adolescents from 5 cohorts who were followed from Grade 7 to Grade 9 (49% males, M age = 12.67 years, SD = .67). Popularity trajectories were identified based on initial status and changes in status over time, and linear mixed effects models tested group differences in changes…
Bidirectional Associations between Popularity, Popularity Goal, and Aggression, Alcohol Use and Prosocial Behaviors in Adolescence: A 3-Year Prospective Longitudinal Study
Adolescents’ popularity and popularity goal have been shown to be related to their aggression and alcohol use. As intervention efforts increasingly aim to focus on prosocial alternatives for youth to gain status, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of how popularity and popularity goal are associated with aggression and substance use as well as prosocial behaviors over time. The current study examined the bidirectional associati…
The working alliance between homeless young adults and workers: A dyadic approach
Considerations for classroom seating arrangements and the role of teacher characteristics and beliefs
As a part of classroom management, teachers face the question of how and where to seat their students. However, it is far from clear what considerations teachers have when making seating arrangements. Therefore, in this study seating arrangement considerations from 50 teachers in grades 4–6 of elementary school were assessed. In Phase 1, teachers were interviewed about their goals and considerations for classroom seating arrangements. Teachers me…
Adolescent Popularity as a Nonlinear, Two-Dimensional Construct: Convergent Results From Three Large Samples
The goal of this study was to advance the conceptualization and measurement of adolescent popularity by exploring the commonly used composite score (popularity minus unpopularity). We used standardized peer nominations from 4,414 early adolescents (ages ≈ 12-14 years) from three samples collected in two countries. Popularity and unpopularity were strongly related, but not linearly; scatterplots of the two variables resembled an L-shaped right ang…
Dyadic nominations of bullying: Comparing types of bullies and their victims
Previous studies indicate that when identifying individuals involved in bullying, the concordance between self‐ and peer‐ reports is low to moderate. There is support that self‐ and peer‐ identified victims constitute distinct types of victims and differ in adjustment. Likewise, differentiating between self‐ and peer‐ reports of bullying may also reveal distinct types of bullies. The goal of this study was to examine differences between types of …
Adolescent Victim Types Across the Popularity Status Hierarchy: Differences in Internalizing Symptoms
Previous studies have called attention to the fact that popular youth are not immune to peer victimization, suggesting there is heterogeneity in the popularity of victims. Yet, no study to date has determined whether victims with different levels of popularity status can be identified using person-oriented analysis. Such analysis is critically needed to confirm the existence of popular victims. Further, there remains a paucity of research on inte…
The Role of Aggressive Peer Norms in Elementary School Children’s Perceptions of Classroom Peer Climate and School Adjustment
Although prior research has indicated that peer norms for aggression enhance the spread of aggression in classrooms, it is unclear to date how these norms relate to students’ classroom climate perceptions and school adjustment. Aggressive descriptive norms reflect the average aggression of all students in classrooms, whereas aggressive popularity norms represent the extent to which aggressive behavior relates to popularity among peers. This study…
Friendly fire: Longitudinal effects of exposure to violent video games on aggressive behavior in adolescent friendship dyads
Research on gaming effects has focused on adolescence, a developmental period in which peer relationships become increasingly salient. However, the impact of peers on the effects of violent gaming on adolescents has been understudied. This study examined whether adolescents' exposure to violent video games predicted their own and their friend's aggression one year later. Among 705 gaming adolescents, 141 dyads were identified based on reciprocate…
Measuring Social Status and Social Behavior with Peer and Teacher Nomination Methods
Sociometric nomination methods are used extensively to measure social status and social behaviors among children and adolescents. In the current study, the correspondence between teacher and peer nomination methods for the identification of preference and popularity was examined. Participants were 733 children in grade 5/6 ( M age = 12.05 years, SD = .64; 53.3 percent boys) and their 29 teachers. Children and teachers completed nomination questio…
Teachers’ goals and strategies for classroom seating arrangements: A qualitative study
Teachers can use seating arrangements to effectively manage classroom dynamics. However, what do teachers aim for and how are they trying to achieve this when creating seating arrangements? We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 upper elementary school teachers. Teachers expressed to have both academic and social-emotional goals addressing the group and individual students. Although their goals were quite similar, teachers employed diffe…
Differences in Aggression and Alcohol Use among Youth with Varying Levels of Victimization and Popularity Status
Awareness that high-status adolescents can be targets of aggression has grown in recent years. However, questions remain about the associations of the confluence of victimization and popularity with adjustment. The current study fills this gap by examining the joint and unique effects of victimization and popularity on aggression and alcohol use. Participants were 804 Dutch adolescents (50.2% boys, M age = 13.65) who were followed for one year. H…
Assessing youth's internal and external attributions to negative peer interactions and victimization—development of the Causal Attributions for Peer Experiences ( Cape ) scale
Many youth experience negative behavior from their peers, which can have lasting consequences for their social functioning and well-being. One mechanism through which negative interactions affect youth is causal attributions, that is, the interpretations that they make for why a negative interaction occurred. We present the newly developed CAPE (Causal Attributions for Peer Experiences) scale, which assesses youth's stable internal, unstable inte…
The longitudinal link between popularity, likeability, fear of negative evaluation and social avoidance across adolescence
This study investigated the longitudinal bidirectional associations between likeability, popularity, fear of negative evaluation, and social avoidance, to aid in preventing the negative consequences and persistent trajectories of low social status and heightened social anxiety. In total, 1741 adolescents in grades 7–9 participated at 3 yearly waves. A self‐report questionnaire measured fear of negative evaluation. Peer nominations assessed likeab…
It's not just what you say, it's how you say it too. Adolescents' hostile attribution of intent and emotional responses to social comments
A highly prevalent and relevant situation in which adolescents have to interpret the intentions of others is when they interact with peers. We therefore successfully introduced a new paradigm to measure hostile attribution bias (HAB) and emotional responses to such social interactions and examined how it related to youth's aggressiveness. We presented 881 adolescents ( M age = 14.35 years; SD = 1.23; 48.1% male) with audio fragments of age‐mates …
Identifying Subtypes of Peer Status by Combining Popularity and Preference: A Cohort-Sequential Approach
The purpose of this study was to identify and validate subtypes of peer status by integrating preference and popularity into a single framework. Person-oriented analyses were performed among 3,630 children and adolescents of different cohorts in primary and secondary education. In the young age groups (Grade 3/4 to Grade 7), three clusters were found: popular-liked, average, and unpopular-disliked. In the older age group (Grade 8), four clusters …
Measuring Social Status and Social Behavior with Peer and Teacher Nomination Methods
Sociometric nomination methods are used extensively to measure social status and social behaviors among children and adolescents. In the current study, the correspondence between teacher and peer nomination methods for the identification of preference and popularity was examined. Participants were 733 children in grade 5/6 ( M age = 12.05 years, SD = .64; 53.3 percent boys) and their 29 teachers. Children and teachers completed nomination questio…
Considerations for classroom seating arrangements and the role of teacher characteristics and beliefs
As a part of classroom management, teachers face the question of how and where to seat their students. However, it is far from clear what considerations teachers have when making seating arrangements. Therefore, in this study seating arrangement considerations from 50 teachers in grades 4–6 of elementary school were assessed. In Phase 1, teachers were interviewed about their goals and considerations for classroom seating arrangements. Teachers me…
Popularity differentially predicts reactive and proactive aggression in early adolescence
Previous research has indicated that peer popularity is associated with aggressive behavior. However, it is not yet clear whether popularity is uniquely related to different functions of aggression. In this study, we examined associations between peer-perceived popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression using a cross-sectional and a longitudinal design. Yearly sociometric measures of popularity, and reactive and proactive aggression were g…
The working alliance between homeless young adults and workers: A dyadic approach
Friendly fire: Longitudinal effects of exposure to violent video games on aggressive behavior in adolescent friendship dyads
Research on gaming effects has focused on adolescence, a developmental period in which peer relationships become increasingly salient. However, the impact of peers on the effects of violent gaming on adolescents has been understudied. This study examined whether adolescents' exposure to violent video games predicted their own and their friend's aggression one year later. Among 705 gaming adolescents, 141 dyads were identified based on reciprocate…
The functions of aggression in gaining, maintaining, and losing popularity during adolescence: A multiple-cohort design
This study examined associations between perceived popularity trajectories and changes in proactive and reactive aggression in middle adolescence. The sample included 1,374 adolescents from 5 cohorts who were followed from Grade 7 to Grade 9 (49% males, M age = 12.67 years, SD = .67). Popularity trajectories were identified based on initial status and changes in status over time, and linear mixed effects models tested group differences in changes…
Preference and popularity as distinct forms of status: A meta‐analytic review of 20 years of research
INTRODUCTION: A systematic meta-analysis was conducted of the association between preference and popularity across childhood and adolescence. The role of development, sex, and region of the world were examined. METHOD: The analysis was conducted on 135 samples including 136,014 participants. The samples were divided by age (upper grades primary school, k = 41; lower grades secondary school, k = 72; upper grades secondary school, k = 22) and regio…
Dyadic nominations of bullying: Comparing types of bullies and their victims
Previous studies indicate that when identifying individuals involved in bullying, the concordance between self‐ and peer‐ reports is low to moderate. There is support that self‐ and peer‐ identified victims constitute distinct types of victims and differ in adjustment. Likewise, differentiating between self‐ and peer‐ reports of bullying may also reveal distinct types of bullies. The goal of this study was to examine differences between types of …
It's not just what you say, it's how you say it too. Adolescents' hostile attribution of intent and emotional responses to social comments
A highly prevalent and relevant situation in which adolescents have to interpret the intentions of others is when they interact with peers. We therefore successfully introduced a new paradigm to measure hostile attribution bias (HAB) and emotional responses to such social interactions and examined how it related to youth's aggressiveness. We presented 881 adolescents ( M age = 14.35 years; SD = 1.23; 48.1% male) with audio fragments of age‐mates …
A Longitudinal Social Network Perspective on Adolescents' Exposure to Violent Video Games and Aggression
Adolescents play video games as a social leisure activity, yet it is unclear whether peer influences play a role in spreading violent video game exposure (VVE) and aggression. It has been suggested that adolescents' aggression increases because of their friend's exposure to violent video games. This study tests this suggestion by using longitudinal social network analyses to investigate selection and socialization of aggression owing to VVE. A to…
Emerging Adults’ Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Longitudinal Study on the Importance of Social Support
The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate emerging adults' mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether social support from mothers, fathers, and best friends moderated the change in mental health. Participants were 98 emerging adults (46% men) who were assessed prior to COVID-19 ( M age = 20.60 years) and during the first lockdown ( M age = 22.67 years). Results indicated that the pandemic did not uniformly lead…
Adolescent Popularity as a Nonlinear, Two-Dimensional Construct: Convergent Results From Three Large Samples
The goal of this study was to advance the conceptualization and measurement of adolescent popularity by exploring the commonly used composite score (popularity minus unpopularity). We used standardized peer nominations from 4,414 early adolescents (ages ≈ 12-14 years) from three samples collected in two countries. Popularity and unpopularity were strongly related, but not linearly; scatterplots of the two variables resembled an L-shaped right ang…
Adolescent Victim Types Across the Popularity Status Hierarchy: Differences in Internalizing Symptoms
Previous studies have called attention to the fact that popular youth are not immune to peer victimization, suggesting there is heterogeneity in the popularity of victims. Yet, no study to date has determined whether victims with different levels of popularity status can be identified using person-oriented analysis. Such analysis is critically needed to confirm the existence of popular victims. Further, there remains a paucity of research on inte…
Bidirectional Associations between Popularity, Popularity Goal, and Aggression, Alcohol Use and Prosocial Behaviors in Adolescence: A 3-Year Prospective Longitudinal Study
Adolescents’ popularity and popularity goal have been shown to be related to their aggression and alcohol use. As intervention efforts increasingly aim to focus on prosocial alternatives for youth to gain status, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of how popularity and popularity goal are associated with aggression and substance use as well as prosocial behaviors over time. The current study examined the bidirectional associati…
The Role of Aggressive Peer Norms in Elementary School Children’s Perceptions of Classroom Peer Climate and School Adjustment
Although prior research has indicated that peer norms for aggression enhance the spread of aggression in classrooms, it is unclear to date how these norms relate to students’ classroom climate perceptions and school adjustment. Aggressive descriptive norms reflect the average aggression of all students in classrooms, whereas aggressive popularity norms represent the extent to which aggressive behavior relates to popularity among peers. This study…
The importance of considering and reporting sources of error in peer nomination research: A response to Bukowski et al
A wide variety of methodological choices and situations can affect the quality of peer nomination measurements but have not received adequate study. This article begins by focusing on systematic nominator missingness as an example of one such situation. We reanalyzed findings from a recent study by Bukowski, Dirks, Commisso, Velàsquez, and Lopez in the year 2019 and compared the results to recent findings of Babcock, Marks, van den Berg, and Cill…
Changes in adolescent loneliness and concomitant changes in fear of negative evaluation and self-esteem
Current theories of loneliness posit that biases in social information processing play a key role in the development and maintenance of loneliness. However, this assumption has rarely been tested in longitudinal research in adolescence. The current study concentrated on two constructs associated with such biases, that is, fear of negative evaluation and self-esteem. More specifically, we examined whether changes in loneliness were associated with…
Differences in Aggression and Alcohol Use among Youth with Varying Levels of Victimization and Popularity Status
Awareness that high-status adolescents can be targets of aggression has grown in recent years. However, questions remain about the associations of the confluence of victimization and popularity with adjustment. The current study fills this gap by examining the joint and unique effects of victimization and popularity on aggression and alcohol use. Participants were 804 Dutch adolescents (50.2% boys, M age = 13.65) who were followed for one year. H…
Does being defended relate to decreases in victimization and improved psychosocial adjustment among victims
School bullying is a clear violation of children's rights to a safe education and is a major concern among school professionals and parents. Many antibullying interventions focus on enhancing peer defending of victims to combat bullying and to promote victims' psychosocial functioning. However, longitudinal studies on the effects of being defended on (a) diminishing victimization and (b) enhancing victims' psychosocial adjustment are lacking, and…
Perks of the Pandemic: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Socially Withdrawn Emerging Adults
Emerging adults were among those especially affected by the distancing measures and instability brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all emerging adults were affected equally. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to determine if different types of socially withdrawn emerging adults (shy, unsocial, avoidant, mixed-withdrawn) were affected differently from one another and from non-withdrawn emerging adults. Pandemic impact was measured …
The longitudinal link between popularity, likeability, fear of negative evaluation and social avoidance across adolescence
This study investigated the longitudinal bidirectional associations between likeability, popularity, fear of negative evaluation, and social avoidance, to aid in preventing the negative consequences and persistent trajectories of low social status and heightened social anxiety. In total, 1741 adolescents in grades 7–9 participated at 3 yearly waves. A self‐report questionnaire measured fear of negative evaluation. Peer nominations assessed likeab…
Teachers’ goals and strategies for classroom seating arrangements: A qualitative study
Teachers can use seating arrangements to effectively manage classroom dynamics. However, what do teachers aim for and how are they trying to achieve this when creating seating arrangements? We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 upper elementary school teachers. Teachers expressed to have both academic and social-emotional goals addressing the group and individual students. Although their goals were quite similar, teachers employed diffe…
Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood
Peer status is associated with social functioning throughout childhood and adolescence, but little is known about its’ long‐term implications. This study examined longitudinal associations of childhood and adolescent popularity with social behavior and status in emerging adulthood. In line with concurrent associations of popularity with social behavior, we hypothesized that childhood popularity would be associated with a positive, prosocial profi…
Being on top versus not dangling at the bottom: Popularity motivation and aggression in youth
Whereas research on aggression and status motivation in youth has predominantly looked at a promotion focus (striving for popularity), a prevention focus (wanting to avoid low popularity) could also be an important determinant of aggression, as youth who fear low popularity may use strategic aggression to secure their position. The aim of the current study was to develop reliable measures for both popularity motivations, and examine how both moti…
Psychology (29 works) · Social Psychology (26 works) · Developmental psychology (24 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (22 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Popularity (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 works) · Aggression (12 works) · Poison control (11 works)