Exploring the peer status prototypes: A large-scale latent profile analysis on high-school students from four European countries.

ABSTRACT: Peer status - the regard other group members have of an individual - is fundamental for youth development. Different research traditions developed independent theoretical frameworks conceiving the dimensions underlying social status, and this led to identifying a variety of peer status prototypes. In this work, we explored whether a classification based on the four dimensions of popularity, aggression, dislike, and victimization could integrate the scattered peer status profiles found in the different traditions. A latent profile analysis on 16,224 European students identified the peer status prototypes of popular, bullies, disliked, victims, and average students. Both the peer- and self-reported correlates supported that the five profiles accounted for the large variety of the students' p

SUBMITTER: Marinucci M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087329 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature