Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2023 Nov;52(11):2285-2299. doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01825-3. Epub 2023 Jul 15.
Although social preference promotes adolescents' defending behaviors, its potential mechanisms across gender cliques remain unclear from the group dynamic perspective. This study investigated 2470 Chinese early adolescents (49% girls, M = 14.40, SD = 0.58) to explore how social preference and clique hierarchy are associated with defending behaviors and whether these associations differ across gender-specific cliques. The results revealed that social preference was positively related to defending behaviors in boys' cliques, but negatively in girls' cliques. Furthermore, the association was strengthened by hierarchization in boys' cliques but was weakened in girls' cliques, while the status structure strengthened the association in boys' but not girls' cliques. These findings hold crucial implications for understanding and promoting defending behaviors among adolescents.
尽管社会偏好促进了青少年的防御行为，但从群体动态的角度来看，其在性别群体中的潜在机制仍不清楚。本研究调查了 2470 名中国早期青少年（49%为女孩，M=14.40，SD=0.58），以探讨社会偏好和群体等级制度如何与防御行为相关，以及这些关联是否在不同性别群体中有所不同。结果表明，社会偏好与男孩群体中的防御行为呈正相关，但与女孩群体中的防御行为呈负相关。此外，在男孩群体中，这种关联因等级化而增强，而在女孩群体中则因等级化而减弱，而地位结构则在男孩群体中增强了这种关联，但在女孩群体中则没有。这些发现对理解和促进青少年的防御行为具有重要意义。
