Popularity, Bullying & Rejection

Question 1

___________ aggression acts are intended to harm another through direct physical or verbal attacks.

Answer 1

overt

Question 2

Most studies of aggressive children have paid more attention to __________.

Answer 2

boys

Question 3

___________ aggression is acts intended to harm another through the manipulation of relationships with others (malacious gossip)

Answer 3

relational

Question 4

Relational aggression was first found in _________, but ________ also use it.

Answer 4

girls, boys

Question 5

Those who use _______ aggression are often more popular.

Answer 5

relational

Question 6

Popular adolescents are more _________ skilled than unpopular peers.

Answer 6

socially

Question 7

_________ popularity is how well-liked an individual is.

Answer 7

sociometric

Question 8

__________ popularity is how much status or prestige an individual has

Answer 8

perceived

Question 9

Predicting ____________ popularity is fluid because peer norms change and social competent adolescents are skilled at figuring them out/adjusting to match them/influencing them.

Answer 9

perceived

Question 10

Some popular ________ are extremely aggressive, athletically competent, and average or below average in friendliness, academic competence, and shyness.

Answer 10

boys

Question 11

Some popular ________ are antisocial and antiacademic and sometimes bullies

Answer 11

girls

Question 12

__________ aggression is aggressive behavior that is deliberate and planned

Answer 12

proactive

Question 13

__________ aggression is aggressive behavior that is unplanned and impulsive.

Answer 13

reactive

Question 14

The “too popular” face the possibility of being the object of other classmates’ ___________.

Answer 14

meanness

Question 15

___________ adolescents are more likely to have close and intimate friendships, have an active social life, take part in extracurricular activities, and receive more social recognition.

Answer 15

popular

Question 16

Teenagers whose peers like them, or who merely believe that their peers like them, have higher ____________ both as adolescents and as adults.

Answer 16

self-esteem

Question 17

Students who are very high in popularity, as well as those who are very low, are _______ satisfied with their friendships and social life than their peers who fall somewhere in between these extremes.

Answer 17

less

Question 18

Unpopular adolescents either 1) have problems __________ aggression, 2) are withdrawn adolescents who are shy, anxious, and inhibited, or 3) are _________ and __________

Answer 18

controlling, aggressive, withdrawn

Question 19

Peer rejection is adolescence can often be traced to rejection during __________ periods of development.

Answer 19

earlier

Question 20

___________ by peers is a major source of stress for adolescents, who have a strong biological stress response to it than children do.

Answer 20

rejection

Question 21

Being __________ has negative consequences for an adolescent’s mental health and psychological development

Answer 21

bullied

Question 22

Many unpopular aggressive children display ________________; the tendency to interpret ambiguous interactions with others as deliberately hostile

Answer 22

hostile attributional bias

Question 23

Unpopular withdrawn children generally display __________, ________ self-esteem, and lack of _________ that make other children feel uncomfortable, but their submissiveness makes them targets for bullying.

Answer 23

hesitancy, low, confidence

Question 24

About ________ of students report physical bullying in the past year.

Answer 24

one third

Question 25

Bullying is differentiated by its ________ nature and by the _____________ of _________ between bully and victim.

Answer 25

repetitive, imbalance, power

Question 26

Prevalence of bullying is higher in schools and in countries characterized by greater ____________.

Answer 26

income inequality

Question 27

Peer __________ diminishes adolescents’ self-esteem, which often leads to more.

Answer 27

victimization

Question 28

____________ undermines academic performance, school attendance, school engagement, and feelings of academic competence, all of which has cascading effects well beyond adolescence.

Answer 28

victimization

Question 29

_____________ problems have been shown to be the causes of victimization as well as the consequences.

Answer 29

psychological

Question 30

Many adolescents who report having been victimized also report ____________

Answer 30

bullying others