Life after High School: Adjustment of Popular Teens in Emerging Adulthood

Autor/inn/en	Sandstrom, Marlene J.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.
Titel	Life after High School: Adjustment of Popular Teens in Emerging Adulthood
Quelle	In: Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 56 (2010) 4, S.474-499, Artikel 3 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-930X
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Females; Psychopathology; Student Adjustment; Peer Acceptance; Victims of Crime; Depression (Psychology); Adolescents; High School Students; Correlation; At Risk Students; Aggression; Interpersonal Relationship; Personality Traits; Foreign Countries; Urban Areas; Young Adults; Work Environment; Evaluation Methods; Adjustment (to Environment) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Weibliches Geschlecht; Psychopathologie; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; High schools; Korrelation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; Urban area; Stadtregion; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Arbeitsmilieu
Abstract	This project examines the adjustment sequelae of perceived popularity beyond high school, and the moderating role of relational aggression (RA) in this process. Yearly sociometric measures of popularity and RA were gathered across grades 9-12 for a sample of 264 adolescents in a lower-middle-class high school. In addition, data on post-high school adjustment were collected from three yearly self-report assessments of depression, psychopathology, workplace victimization, and risk behavior. Results revealed a positive association between popularity in high school and risk behaviors in emerging adulthood, after controlling for prior levels of risk behaviors. In addition, the combination of low popularity and high RA was associated with higher levels of adjustment problems for boys across all adjustment measures, after controlling for prior levels of adjustment. Finally, RA in high school emerged as double-edged sword for girls. For girls, high levels of RA in high school were associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms, but higher levels of workplace victimization in emerging adulthood. Implications and directions for future research are discussed. (Contains 2 tables, 4 figures and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10