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Social Dominance Goals Matter in Friendship Dynamics Around Aggressive Behavior: Longitudinal Social Network Perspective

  • The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Abbr : KJSP
  • 2018, 15(3), pp.307-329
  • DOI : 10.16983/kjsp.2018.15.3.307
  • Publisher : The Korean Journal of School Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science > School / Educational Psychology
  • Received : June 4, 2018
  • Accepted : October 8, 2018
  • Published : December 31, 2018

Huiyoung Shin ORD ID 1

1전북대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This research investigated whether youth’s social goals moderate friend selection and influence processes on aggressive behavior during early adolescence. Two waves of data on youth’s friendship, aggressive behavior, and social goals were retrieved with fifth and sixth graders from 26 classrooms (N=736, 52% girls at wave1, N=677, 52% girls at wave 2). Longitudinal Social network analyses, conducted with stochastic actor-based models, indicated that friends were similar to each other in aggressive behavior and that this similarity was due to both friend selection and influence effects. Youth’s social dominance goals moderated friend selection based on aggressive behavior; Youth who strive for social dominance were more likely to select highly aggressive peers as friends, and became more aggressive over time. The current study underscores the importance of youth’s social goals in friendship dynamics around aggressive behavior in the classroom.

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