The role of attractiveness and aggression in high school popularity |
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Authors: | Casey Borch Allen Hyde Antonius H N Cillessen |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Sociology,University of Alabama at Birmingham,Birmingham,USA;2.University of Connecticut,Storrs,USA;3.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen,Nijmegen,The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This study examines the effects of physical attractiveness and aggression on popularity among high school students. Previous
work has found positive relationships between aggression and popularity and physical attractiveness and popularity. The current
study goes beyond this work by examining the interactive effects of physical attractiveness and aggression on popularity.
Controlling for race and gender, the results indicate that attractive students are seen as more physically and relationally
aggressive than those who are less attractive. We also found that those who are both physically attractive and aggressive
are perceived to be more popular than those without such characteristics. However, the same interaction showed the opposite
effect when predicting sociometric popularity instead of perceived popularity. These results contribute to the understanding
of the differences between those who are well-liked (sociometric popularity) and those who are socially visible (perceived
popularity), and the unique predictors of these two dimensions of status in the peer group. |
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