High and low levels of adolescent peer status are associated longitudinally with socioevaluative concern |
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| Authors: | Nathan H. Field Elizabeth A. Nick Maya Massing-Schaffer Kara A. Fox Jacqueline Nesi Mitchell J. Prinstein |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA;2. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
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| Abstract: | This study examined linear and curvilinear longitudinal associations between peer status (i.e., likeability and popularity) and socioevaluative concern, a socio-cognitive feature characterized by attunement to judgment from peers. A sample of 716 adolescents (Mage = 16.01, SD = 1.25; 54% female; 46.5% White; 69.5% reduced-price lunch) was assessed twice annually. Likeability and popularity were assessed with peer nominations at Time 1. Measures of general (rejection sensitivity, peer importance) and online (digital status seeking, online status importance) socioevaluative concern were obtained at Times 1 and 2. High and low levels of likeability were longitudinally associated with increased peer importance, while high and low levels of popularity were associated with increased digital status seeking, and decreased online status importance for girls. |
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| Keywords: | adolescence likeability popularity socioevaluative concern |
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