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Associations Between Social Status Insecurity and Relational Aggression in Chinese Adolescents: Moderations of Social Cognitive Prosesses
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Long, Yunyi |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Adolescents pay close attention to their social status and actively pursue it through using certain social behaviors. Previous studies have revealed that when adolescents feel their social standing is unsafe, namely having social status insecurity, they often use relational aggression to cope with it. However, what roles different social cognition processes may play on the association between social status insecurity and relational aggression are not clear in the literature. Additionally, given that the relation between relational victimization and relational aggression has also been reported in the literature, social status insecurity may also exert important impact on such an association. Nevertheless, few studies have examined this issue. This study addresses these research questions by examining two sets of integrated models, moderation models and mediation models, on the relations between social status insecurity and relational aggression using a longitudinal design. In the moderation models, multiple social cognitive processes, including attributions, outcome expectancies, and normative beliefs regarding relational aggression are expected to moderate the association between social status insecurity and relational aggression; in the mediation models, social status insecurity are expected to mediate the association between relational victimization and relational aggression of adolescents. A total of 482 Chinese adolescents (238 girls) in 7th and 8th grades as well as 10 teachers of a public middle school participated in the study. Eighteen months later from the first study, 357 adolescents (177 girls) participated in the study again. At the first time point of the study (T1), adolescents’ relational aggression was reported by |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
