They’re Cool: Social Status and Peer Group Supports for Aggressive Boys and Girls

By Philip C. Rodkin, T. Farmer, R. Pearl, R. Acker. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Bullying in schools: the power of bullies and the plight of victims. (2014, background): “Beginning in elementary school, some aggressive children are considered to be popular (Rodkin et al. 2006).”
What Makes Things Cool? How Autonomy Influences Perceived Coolness (2014, background): “The few quantitative empirical studies on the topic confirm that cool people tend to possess personality traits considered desirable by the audience evaluating coolness (Dar-Nimrod et al. 2012; Rodkin et al. 2006).”
Contextual and Moderating Effects of the Peer Group Climate on Use of Homophobic Epithets (2008, background): “In the general aggression literature, individuals within aggressive peer groups have reported higher levels of conflict and lower friendship quality (Cillessen, Jiang, West, & Laszkowski, 2005), and nominated tough individuals as being popular ( Rodkin, Farmer, Pearl, & Van Acker, 2006 ).”
Peer Relations of Bullies, Bully-Victims, and Victims: The Two Social Worlds of Bullying in Second-Grade Classrooms (2010, background): “This corresponds with a recent study which shows that socially prominent aggressive children are viewed as being cool by a broad range of nonaggressive peers (Rodkin et al., 2006).”
Bully/Victim Problems Among Preschool Children: a Review of Current Research Evidence (2011, background): “Recent evidence shows that not all bullies belong to small, low-status groups of deviant peers (Rodkin et al. 2006).”
Bullying and the peer group: A review (2010, background): “However, being disliked and being perceived as cool or popular do not necessarily contradict each other (e.g., Estell, Farmer, Pearl, Van Acker, & Rodkin, 2008; Rodkin et al., 2006).”
Peer Relationships in Childhood (2013, background): “They may also be socially central within their peer networks and considered to be “cool” (Rodkin et al., 2006).”