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- Cliques, or groups of peers who interact frequently, are a key social context during childhood and adolescence, providing safety and preferential access to resources. Membership in cliques influences behavior and adjustment, but little is known about the processes by which these influences occur.
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Jun 16, 2015 · This study examined to what extent the relationship of individual social status (i.e., perceived popularity) with aggression and prosocial behavior depends on the level of internal clique hierarchy. The sample consists of 2674 adolescents (49.8 % boys), with a mean age of 14.02.
- Kim Pattiselanno, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra, Christian Steglich, Wilma Vollebergh, René Veenstra
- 10.1007/s10964-015-0310-4
- 2015
- J Youth Adolesc. 2015; 44(12): 2257-2274.
- Cliques in Middle School
- Clique Pressures
- The Power of Cliques
- The End of Cliques
From what I’ve seen of the adolescent passage, social cliques are most powerful in middle school. Why so? During this vulnerable age, there is increased developmental insecurity for several reasons: 1. There is increased separation from childhood and parents, so one can feel more lonelyand disconnected. 2. There are uncertain and often unwelcome ph...
Cliques can feel cool when you belong and can feel cruel when you don’t. That’s one of the problems with cliques. They can cut in both ways. Acceptance is based on similarity to what is prized that members should personify and possess. Rejection is based on lacking these social credentials. Cliques can create two kinds of pressures—those from belon...
Cliques are close-knit groups in which that closeness is based on shared, even required, similarity, shunning those who are different. For example, there can be wealth cliquesin which well-off young people snobbishly act like they're better than poorer students, treating lower-income peers as less worthy of consideration, notice, and association on...
For the middle-school moment, being part of a clique can provide some powerful benefits. However, as a larger, more complex adolescent world develops in high school and the reality of graduation approaches, the social shelter, simplicity, and similarity of a clique become less serviceable. Now, as conformitydemands feel too restrictive, the costs o...
Nov 6, 2014 · New study explores why cliques thrive in some high schools more than others A paper in ‘American Sociological Review’ finds that schools that offer students more choice are more likely to be rank-ordered, cliquish and segregated by race, age, gender and social status.
Jan 1, 2018 · Recent research has turned to understanding how cliques can be contexts for aggression, as individuals within clicks can vary in terms of their social status and what they can do to others within and outside of their cliques.
- Roger J. R. Levesque
- rlevesqu@indiana.edu
Go to almost any American high school and the elements of teen social networks become quickly apparent: the cliques, the pecking orders, and the varying degrees of self-segregation by race, age,...
Aug 14, 2017 · Cliques, or groups of peers who interact frequently, are a key social context during childhood and adolescence, providing safety and preferential access to resources. Membership in cliques influences behavior and adjustment, but little is known about the processes by which these influences occur.
Jul 15, 2023 · This study investigated 2470 Chinese early adolescents (49% girls, Mage = 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.
