- Title
- Adolescent popularity : distinct profiles and associations with excessive internet usage and interpersonal sensitivity
- Creator
- Stavropoulos, Vasileios; Barber, Emily; de Sena Collier, Gabriel; Snodgrass, Jeffrey; Gomez, Rapson
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187255
- Identifier
- vital:17062
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01194-7
- Identifier
- ISBN:0009-398X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Peer popularity constitutes a pivotal developmental task to adolescents’ current and future adaptation. This study identified distinct adolescent popularity profiles and explored their links with excessive Internet usage and interpersonal sensitivity. The sample included 2090 students attending Greek high schools (Mage = 16.16, SD = 0.91). Their popularity was measured via self-report and peer sociometric means. They also responded to the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) and the Interpersonal Sensitivity subscale of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). A sequence of latent profile analysis, ANOVAs and linear regression models were performed. Three distinct popularity profiles were revealed: the “Average Confident” (68.4%), the “Socially Vulnerable” (26.8%), and the “Insecure Bi-Strategic” (4.8%). These profiles did not significantly vary regarding their Internet usage and interpersonal sensitivity behaviours. Interestingly, lower self-perceived popularity predicted higher interpersonal sensitivity, whereas higher actual popularity predicted excessive Internet use. Findings have important implications for student-tailored mental health prevention and intervention practices. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Child Psychiatry and Human Development Vol. 53, no. 6 (2022), p. 1097-1109
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s)
- Subject
- 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; 5203 Clinical and health psychology; 3202 Clinical sciences; Adolescence; Excessive Internet use; Interpersonal sensitivity; Popularity; SCL-90-R
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Funding details: Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, Australian Research Council, CEED Funding details: Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, Australian Research Council, CCFS, ARC Funding details: Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Australian Research Council, CIBF Funding details: Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australian Research Council Funding details: Australian Research Council, ARC Funding details: Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, Australian Research Council, CoEPP Funding details: Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australian Research Council, CCD Funding details: Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Australian Research Council, PEB Funding details: Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science, Australian Research Council, CXS, DE210101107 Funding details: Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Australian Research Council, ARC, ACES Funding details: Training Centre for Food and Beverage Supply Chain Optimisation, Australian Research Council Funding details: Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, Australian Research Council, FLEET
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