High Peer Popularity Longitudinally Predicts Adolescent Health Risk Behavior, or Does It?: An Examination of Linear and Quadratic Associations

Prinstein, Mitchell J.; Choukas‐Bradley, Sophia; Helms, Sarah W.; Brechwald, Whitney A.; Rancourt, Diana

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“…Most studies that studied the associations between popularity and adjustment outcomes in a similar age group mainly examined how popularity predicted several outcome behaviors instead of the reverse (e.g., Prinstein et al 2011). However, used a cross-panel design and showed that popularity predicted greater engagement in risk behavior, but also that smoking predicted increased popularity 2 years later.…”

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“…Adolescents' popularity in the peer group is associated with various negative as well as positive behaviors, such as smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, and being cooperative (e.g., Prinstein et al 2011;Prinstein et al 2003). Popularity is typically measured using peer reports, with an individual's popularity being determined by the standardized difference between the number of ''most popular'' and ''least popular'' nominations received by members of a reference group (e.g., classmates).…”

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Behavioral Correlates of Prioritizing Popularity in Adolescence

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Deutz

Schoneveld

et al. 2015

J Youth Adolescence

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Little is known about individual differences in adolescents' motivation to achieve and maintain popularity. This study examined the moderating effects of prioritizing popularity on the associations between popularity and adjustment outcomes in late adolescence. Participants were 314 Dutch eleventh-grade students (M = 16.83 years; 52 % male) who completed measures of popularity, prioritizing popularity, and prosocial, antisocial, and risk behaviors. It was hypothesized that associations between popularity and adjustment outcomes are stronger for adolescents who prioritize popularity. The results indicate that the combination of being popular and valuing popularity was strongly related to antisocial and risk behaviors, but not to prosocial behaviors. Adolescents' social status motivations thus play an important role in the association of popularity with antisocial and risk behaviors in late adolescence.

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Behavioral Correlates of Prioritizing Popularity in Adolescence

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Schoneveld

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J Youth Adolescence

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“…Adolescents' popularity is positively associated with drinking alcohol (Mayeux, Sandstrom, & Cillessen, 2008), smoking tobacco (Prinstein, ChoukasBradley, Helms, Brechwald, & Rancourt, 2011) and smoking cannabis (Prinstein et al, 2011). Sexual intercourse, which in adolescence is seen as a risk behaviour because of related unintentional pregnancy and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (Saewyc, Magee, & Pettingell, 2004), is also positively associated with popularity (Hawke & Rieger, 2013;Mayeux et al, 2008;Prinstein et al, 2011;Prinstein, Meade, & Cohen, 2003).…”

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“…Sexual intercourse, which in adolescence is seen as a risk behaviour because of related unintentional pregnancy and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (Saewyc, Magee, & Pettingell, 2004), is also positively associated with popularity (Hawke & Rieger, 2013;Mayeux et al, 2008;Prinstein et al, 2011;Prinstein, Meade, & Cohen, 2003). However, studies that also took likeability into account showed that alcohol use was not associated with likeability (Mayeux et al, 2008), nor was sexual intercourse (Hawke & Rieger, 2013).…”

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“…It is also important to take gender into account as it appears to moderate the association between popularity and alcohol use (Simantov, Schoen, & Klein, 2000), tobacco and marijuana use (Prinstein et al, 2011), and engagement in sexual intercourse (Caminis, Henrich, Ruchkin, Schwab-Stone, & Martin, 2007;Prinstein et al, 2011). For example, in the study by Prinstein et al (2011), higher levels of popularity were only associated with higher levels of later marijuana use for boys.…”

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Associations between risk behaviour and social status in European adolescents

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Costin

Deutz

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European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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Both theory and empirical evidence suggest that adolescents engage in risk behaviour to gain mature status, thereby becoming popular among their peers. Using a cross-sectional design with 20 school classes from higher secondary schools in Austria and the Netherlands, associations between risk behaviour and social status in late adolescence were examined (N ¼ 408, M age ¼ 16.95, SD ¼ 0.81, 50% male). Popularity and likeability were assessed as distinct facets of social status in adolescence using peer nominations. Self-reported risk behaviour included alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use, as well as sexual intercourse. Using a

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Peer Relations and Developmental Psychopathology

Prinstein

Giletta

2016

Developmental Psychopathology

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Peers provide a context in which child and adolescent development occurs. Peers may right wayward developmental trajectories, buffering the effects of deleterious risk factors. Adverse peer experiences also may distort developmental pathways, contributing to psychopathology. Numerous distinct peer constructs that signal developmental perturbations have been identified and associated with indices of psychopathology. This chapter reviews peer experiences in early childhood (i.e., social withdrawal), school‐age youth (i.e., peer status, peer victimization, and friendship), and adolescence (i.e., peer influence) that are associated with psychological symptoms. This chapter highlights developmental psychopathology approaches for understanding transactions between peer experiences and multiple development systems. New directions for research, integrating affective neuroscience theories, psychophysiology findings, and more complex cascade models of development are discussed. The peer context is highly relevant for understanding psychological and even biological functioning in youth. Ongoing research integrates findings from the peer relations literature with research in related scientific disciplines.

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High Peer Popularity Longitudinally Predicts Adolescent Health Risk Behavior, or Does It?: An Examination of Linear and Quadratic Associations

Abstract: New theoretical models can be useful for understanding the complex manner in which health risk behaviors may be reinforced within the peer context.

Cited by 47 publications

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Behavioral Correlates of Prioritizing Popularity in Adolescence

Behavioral Correlates of Prioritizing Popularity in Adolescence

Associations between risk behaviour and social status in European adolescents

Peer Relations and Developmental Psychopathology

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