Popularity, Bullying & Rejection Flashcards
___________ aggression acts are intended to harm another through direct physical or verbal attacks.
overt
Most studies of aggressive children have paid more attention to __________.
boys
___________ aggression is acts intended to harm another through the manipulation of relationships with others (malacious gossip)
relational
Relational aggression was first found in _________, but ________ also use it.
girls, boys
Those who use _______ aggression are often more popular.
relational
Popular adolescents are more _________ skilled than unpopular peers.
socially
_________ popularity is how well-liked an individual is.
sociometric
__________ popularity is how much status or prestige an individual has
perceived
Predicting ____________ popularity is fluid because peer norms change and social competent adolescents are skilled at figuring them out/adjusting to match them/influencing them.
perceived
Some popular ________ are extremely aggressive, athletically competent, and average or below average in friendliness, academic competence, and shyness.
boys
Some popular ________ are antisocial and antiacademic and sometimes bullies
girls
__________ aggression is aggressive behavior that is deliberate and planned
proactive
__________ aggression is aggressive behavior that is unplanned and impulsive.
reactive
The “too popular” face the possibility of being the object of other classmates’ ___________.
meanness
___________ 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.
popular
Teenagers whose peers like them, or who merely believe that their peers like them, have higher ____________ both as adolescents and as adults.
self-esteem
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.
less
Unpopular adolescents either 1) have problems __________ aggression, 2) are withdrawn adolescents who are shy, anxious, and inhibited, or 3) are _________ and __________
controlling, aggressive, withdrawn
Peer rejection is adolescence can often be traced to rejection during __________ periods of development.
earlier
___________ by peers is a major source of stress for adolescents, who have a strong biological stress response to it than children do.
rejection
Being __________ has negative consequences for an adolescent’s mental health and psychological development
bullied
Many unpopular aggressive children display ________________; the tendency to interpret ambiguous interactions with others as deliberately hostile
hostile attributional bias
Unpopular withdrawn children generally display __________, ________ self-esteem, and lack of _________ that make other children feel uncomfortable, but their submissiveness makes them targets for bullying.
hesitancy, low, confidence
About ________ of students report physical bullying in the past year.
one third
Bullying is differentiated by its ________ nature and by the _____________ of _________ between bully and victim.
repetitive, imbalance, power
Prevalence of bullying is higher in schools and in countries characterized by greater ____________.
income inequality
Peer __________ diminishes adolescents’ self-esteem, which often leads to more.
victimization
____________ undermines academic performance, school attendance, school engagement, and feelings of academic competence, all of which has cascading effects well beyond adolescence.
victimization
_____________ problems have been shown to be the causes of victimization as well as the consequences.
psychological
Many adolescents who report having been victimized also report ____________
bullying others
