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Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School
As students transition into middle school they must successfully negotiate a new, larger peer context to attain or maintain high social standing. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which the maintenance, attainment, and loss of a cool status over the course of the sixth grade is ass...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20842415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9590-x |
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author | Bellmore, Amy Villarreal, Vanessa M. Ho, Alice Y. |
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description | As students transition into middle school they must successfully negotiate a new, larger peer context to attain or maintain high social standing. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which the maintenance, attainment, and loss of a cool status over the course of the sixth grade is associated with student and classroom levels of physical, verbal, and relational aggression. To address this goal, we studied a sample of 1985 (55% girls) ethnically diverse adolescents from 99 sixth grade classrooms in the United States. Attaining a cool status at any point across the school year was associated with stronger aggressive reputations. Additionally, classroom norms for aggressive behavior moderated the association between changes in aggression over the school year and the stability of coolness such that students who maintained their coolness across the school year showed greater increases in their verbally aggressive reputations from fall to spring when they were in classrooms with higher levels of aggression. The findings illustrate the importance of fitting in with social norms for maintaining a high social status among a new set of peers in middle school. |
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spelling | pubmed-31117272011-07-14 Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School Bellmore, Amy Villarreal, Vanessa M. Ho, Alice Y. J Youth Adolesc Empirical Research As students transition into middle school they must successfully negotiate a new, larger peer context to attain or maintain high social standing. The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which the maintenance, attainment, and loss of a cool status over the course of the sixth grade is associated with student and classroom levels of physical, verbal, and relational aggression. To address this goal, we studied a sample of 1985 (55% girls) ethnically diverse adolescents from 99 sixth grade classrooms in the United States. Attaining a cool status at any point across the school year was associated with stronger aggressive reputations. Additionally, classroom norms for aggressive behavior moderated the association between changes in aggression over the school year and the stability of coolness such that students who maintained their coolness across the school year showed greater increases in their verbally aggressive reputations from fall to spring when they were in classrooms with higher levels of aggression. The findings illustrate the importance of fitting in with social norms for maintaining a high social status among a new set of peers in middle school. Springer US 2010-09-15 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3111727/ /pubmed/20842415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9590-x Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Empirical Research Bellmore, Amy Villarreal, Vanessa M. Ho, Alice Y. Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School |
title | Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School |
title_full | Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School |
title_fullStr | Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School |
title_full_unstemmed | Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School |
title_short | Staying Cool Across the First Year of Middle School |
title_sort | staying cool across the first year of middle school |
topic | Empirical Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20842415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-010-9590-x |
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