“…Although several studies have examined and found an association between extraversion and popularity (Ciarrochi & Heaven, 2009;DesJardins, Srivastava, Küfner, & Back, 2015;Feiler & Kleinbaum, 2015;Jensen-Campbell et al, 2002;Jensen-Campbell & Malcolm, 2007;Lubbers et al, 2006;Scholte, van Aken, Marcel A. G., & Van Lieshout, 1997;Stopfer, Egloff, Nestler, & Back, 2013;van der Linden et al, 2010;Wortman & Wood, 2011), few studies have assessed this association before adolescence. A study that differentiated between two types of popularity measures, namely sociometric and perceived popularity, has found that self-ratings of extraversion were associated with perceived popularity in adolescence, yet no associations between extraversion and sociometric popularity were found in middle childhood (mean age 9.39) or in adolescence (mean age 12.05) (Andrei, Mancini, Mazzoni, Russo, & Baldaro, 2015).…”