Children's Social Constructions of Popularity

By A. M. Lease, Charlotte A. Kennedy, Jennifer L. Axelrod. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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Childhood Peer Relationships: Social Acceptance, Friendships, and Peer Networks. (2003, background): “On the other hand, other researchers have documented that relations between social status and social dominance increase with age, lending credence to the idea that among older children, peer acceptance may be associated with assertive behavior (Lease et al., 2002).”
Popularity in Early Adolescence: Prosocial and Antisocial Subtypes (2006, background): “Some researchers found positive associations between consensual popularity and measures of academic performance (e.g., Farmer, Estell, Bishop, O’Neal, & Cairns, 2003; LaFontana & Cillessen, 2002; Lease et al., 2002).”
Social Preference, Perceived Popularity and Social Intelligence (2006, background): “…overt aggression, one study found a stronger relation with perceived popularity for boys than for girls (Parkhurst and Hopmeyer, 1998), a second found a stronger relation for girls than for boys (Lease et al., 2002), and a third found similar relations across gender (LaFontana and Cillessen, 2002).”
The relation between popularity and aggressive, destructive, and norm-breaking behaviors: Moderating effects of athletic abilities, physical attractiveness, and prosociality (2009, neutral): “LaFontana & Cillessen, 2002; Lease et al., 2002; Parkhurst & Hopmeyer, 1998).”
Aggression and social status: the moderating roles of sex and peer‐valued characteristics (2006, background): “Research on social status or popularity within the peer group has drawn from two distinct research traditions that operationalize status very differently [Lease et al., 2002; Parkhurst and Hopmeyer, 1998; Rodkin et al., 2000].”
Relations Among Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health During Early Adolescence (2014, background): “, gender typical) characteristics, such as being athletic and tough, whereas popular girls usually possess feminine characteristics, such as being attractive, wearing expensive designer clothes, and gossiping (Adler, Kless, & Adler, 1992; Closson, 2009; Lease et al., 2002; Vaillancourt & Hymel, 2006”
Basking in Reflected Glory and Its Limits: Why Adolescents Hang Out With Popular Peers (2010, positive): “a consequence, membership of the popular crowd negatively affected the position of adolescents within the larger peer group and led peers to characterize popular adolescents as snobbish and arrogant (see also de Bruyn & Cillessen, 2006; Gorman, Kim, & Schimmelbusch, 2002; Lease et al., 2002).”