title: The architecture of high status among Finnish youth.
abstract: We tested the construct validity of a two-dimensional model of high status, consisting of social acceptance and perceived popularity (hereafter, acceptance and popularity) among Finnish children and adolescents. In addition, we investigated the correlates of the two forms of high status, as well as their relations to resource control. Participants were 563 boys and girls in grades four and eight, that is, aged 10-11 and 14-15. CFA and SEM models supported the hypothesis of acceptance and popularity representing distinct, yet associated constructs that have partly different correlates. Acceptance and popularity were most closely connected among grade four students, particularly among boys. Prosocial behaviour was associated with acceptance, whereas peer-valued characteristics (physical attractiveness, athletic ability) and aggression were related especially to popularity. Popularity, but not acceptance, was positively related to resource control.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano and Brescia, Italy . simona.caravita@unicatt.it
authors.forename: Simona C S
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Caravita
authors.forename: Virpi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pöyhönen
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rajala
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Salmivalli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010379:Peer Group; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012928:Social Desirability; D012930:Social Dominance; D012933:Social Identification; D012963:Sociometric Techniques