Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2023 May 12;18(5):e0283117. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283117. eCollection 2023.
The present study contrasts two forms of peer status as sources of friend influence: Relative likeability and relative popularity. Participants included 310 children (142 boys, 168 girls), ages 9 to 12, in stable reciprocated friendships. Peer nominations were collected at two time points, 8 to 14 weeks apart. After removing overlapping variance through residualization, partners in each friend dyad were categorized into roles on the basis of relative (to the partner) popularity and relative (to the partner) likeability. Dyadic analyses compared more- and less-liked friends and more- and less-popular friends in terms of their influence over physical aggression, relational aggression, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement. Higher initial relational aggression, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement among more-liked partners predicted greater increases in the same among less-liked partners, but not the reverse. Unexpectedly, physical aggression among less-liked partners predicted increases in physical aggression among more-liked partners. More popular friends did not influence less popular friends on any of these variables, although (also unexpectedly) less-popular friends influenced the academic achievement of more-popular friends. Taken together, the findings suggest that during the pre- and early adolescent years, relative influence within a friendship tends to be apportioned on the basis of likeability, not popularity.
相对受喜爱程度和相对受欢迎程度。参与者包括 310 名 9 至 12 岁、稳定互惠友谊的儿童（男 142 人，女 168 人）。在 8 到 14 周的时间间隔内，进行了两次同伴提名收集。通过残差消除去除重叠方差后，根据相对（相对于伙伴）受欢迎程度和相对（相对于伙伴）受喜爱程度，将每个朋友对中的伙伴归类为角色。在物理攻击、关系攻击、亲社会行为和学业成绩方面，对更受喜爱和更不受喜爱的朋友以及更受欢迎和更不受欢迎的朋友进行了对偶分析。更受喜爱的伙伴最初的关系攻击、亲社会行为和学业成绩较高，预示着不太受喜爱的伙伴在这些方面的增长更大，但反之则不然。出乎意料的是，不太受喜爱的伙伴的身体攻击预测了更受喜爱的伙伴的身体攻击的增加。更受欢迎的朋友在这些变量上不会影响不受欢迎的朋友，尽管（也出乎意料）不受欢迎的朋友会影响受欢迎的朋友的学业成绩。综合来看，这些发现表明，在青少年早期，友谊中的相对影响力往往是基于喜爱程度而不是受欢迎程度分配的。
