Wang Ying, Hawk Skyler T, Wong Natalie
National Institution of Education, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, Singapore.
Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Jun 4. doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02199-4.
Resource Control Theory suggests that adolescents strategically deploy aggressive and prosocial behaviors in response to perceived changes in social status. Given the bidirectional nature of interactions between adolescents and their social environment, however, it is also possible that these behaviors might shape their social standing in a reciprocal fashion. These processes were examined in the context of adolescents' aggressive and prosocial social media behavior, as was the potential for youth narcissism to moderate these links. Adolescents (N = 287, M = 15.97, 57.1% female) completed a two-week daily diary study. Three pairs of lagged, within-person, bi-directional associations existed, including between perceived status frustration and public aggressive online behaviors, perceived status frustration and private prosocial behaviors, and perceived status satisfaction and private prosocial behaviors. Results support the notion of adaptive and vicious cycles of status attainment. Narcissistic rivalry predicted stronger increases in frustration-related public aggression, while narcissistic admiration predicted stronger increases in satisfaction-related private prosociality. Results highlight the complexity of adolescents' interpersonal dynamics online, from online aggression following perceived status frustrations to prosocial attempts to consolidate or regain status.
资源控制理论表明，青少年会根据所感知到的社会地位变化，策略性地运用攻击性行为和亲社会行为。然而，鉴于青少年与其社会环境之间互动的双向性，这些行为也有可能以一种相互的方式塑造他们的社会地位。这些过程在青少年的攻击性和亲社会社交媒体行为背景下进行了研究，同时也探讨了青少年自恋对这些联系的调节作用。青少年（N = 287，M = 15.97，57.1%为女性）完成了一项为期两周的每日日记研究。存在三对滞后的、个体内部的双向关联，包括感知到的地位挫折与公开攻击性行为之间、感知到的地位挫折与私下亲社会行为之间、以及感知到的地位满意度与私下亲社会行为之间。结果支持了地位获得的适应性和恶性循环的观点。自恋竞争预示着与挫折相关的公开攻击行为会有更强的增加，而自恋崇拜则预示着与满意度相关的私下亲社会行为会有更强的增加。结果凸显了青少年在线人际动态的复杂性，从感知到地位挫折后的在线攻击行为到巩固或恢复地位的亲社会尝试。
