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Title
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Likeability and Popularity as Sources of Influence within Primary School Friendships.
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Creator
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Valdes, Olivia M., Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
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Abstract/Description
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It is well documented that friends influence adaptive behaviors (Brechwald & Prinstein, 2011). However, it remains unclear how influence manifests itself. The current study investigated the role of likeability and popularity in determining the relative influence that a child exercises on his or her friend’s prosocial behavior and academic achievement in a sample of elementary schooled children (N=679). The results suggest that more liked friends have more influence over their less liked...
Show moreIt is well documented that friends influence adaptive behaviors (Brechwald & Prinstein, 2011). However, it remains unclear how influence manifests itself. The current study investigated the role of likeability and popularity in determining the relative influence that a child exercises on his or her friend’s prosocial behavior and academic achievement in a sample of elementary schooled children (N=679). The results suggest that more liked friends have more influence over their less liked friends’ prosocial behavior and academic achievement. Both more- and less-popular friends influenced each other’s academic achievement. Residualized analyses, however, which take into account the shared overlap between likeability and popularity, suggest that the more-liked friend continued to influence the prosocial behavior and academic achievement of the less-liked friend, whereas more-popular children had no influence over their less-popular counterparts.
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Date Issued
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2018
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013024
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Subject Headings
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Friendship in children, Popularity, Social influence, School children
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Format
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Document (PDF)
