Facial attractiveness as a moderator of the association between social and physical aggression and popularity in adolescents

Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 313-333

  Rosen, Lisa H ^a   Underwood, Marion K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Indirect aggression; Physical aggression; Relational aggression; Social aggression; Social status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; BEAUTY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 77953914632     PISSN: 00224405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

References (92)

1. Aiken L.S., West S.G. Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions 1991, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
2. Archer J. Sex differences in aggression in real-world settings: A meta-analytic review. Review of General Psychology 2004, 8:291-322.
3. Archer J., Coyne S.M. An integrated review of indirect, relational, and social aggression. Personality and Social Psychology Review 2005, 9:212-230.
4. Berkowitz L., Frodi A. Reactions to a child's mistakes as affected by her/his looks and speech. Social Psychology Quarterly 1979, 42:420-425.
5. Betan E.J., Roberts M.C., McCluskey-Fawcett K. Rates of participation for clinical child and pediatric psychology research: Issues in methodology. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 1995, 24:227-235.
6. Cairns R.B., Cairns B.D., Neckerman H.J., Ferguson L.L., Gariepy J. Growth and aggression: 1. Childhood to early adolescence. Developmental Psychology 1989, 25:320-330.
7. Card N.A., Stucky B.D., Sawalani G.M., Little T.D. Direct and indirect aggression during childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review of gender differences, intercorrelations, and relations to maladjustment. Child Development 2008, 79:1185-1229.
8. Cillessen A.H.N., Mayeux L. From censure to reinforcement: Developmental changes in the association between aggression and social status. Child Development 2004, 75:147-163.
9. Cillessen A.H.N., Mayeux L. Expectations and perceptions at school transitions: The role of peer status and aggression. Journal of School Psychology 2007, 45:567-586.
10. Cillessen, A.H.N., Terry, R.A., Coie, J.D., and Lochman, J.D. (2002). Accuracy of teacher evaluations of children's sociometric status positions. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut.
11. Clifford M.M., Walster E. The effect of physical attractiveness on teacher expectations. Sociology of Education 1973, 46:248-258.
12. Coie J.D., Dodge K.A. Aggression and antisocial behavior. Social, emotional, and personality development 1998, vol. 3:779-862. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. 5th ed. N. Eisenberg (Ed.).
13. Coie J.D., Koeppl G.K. Expanding the framework of intervention with rejected children. Peer rejection in childhood 1990, 309-337. Cambridge University Press, New York. S.R. Asher, J.D. Coie (Eds.).
14. Collett B.R., Ohan J., Myers K. Ten-year review of rating scales. VI: Scales assessing externalizing behaviors. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2003, 42:1143-1170.
15. Cowen E.L., Weissberg R.P., Guare J. Differentiating attributes of children referred to a school mental health program. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 1984, 12:397-410.
16. Crick N.R. The role of overt aggression, relational aggression, and prosocial behavior in the prediction of children's future social adjustment. Child Development 1996, 67:2317-2327.
17. Crick N.R. Engagement in gender normative versus nonnormative forms of aggression: Links to social-psychological adjustment. Developmental Psychology 1997, 33:610-617.
18. Crick N.R., Bigbee M.A. Relational and overt forms of peer victimization: A multiinformant approach. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1998, 66:337-347.
19. Crick N.R., Casas J.F., Nelson D.A. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of peer maltreatment: Studies of relational victimization. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2002, 11:98-101.
20. Crick N.R., Ostrov J.M., Kawabata Y. Social aggression and gender: An overview. Cambridge handbook of violent behavior and aggression 2007, 245-259. Cambridge, NY. D.J. Flannery, A.T. Vazsonyi, I.D. Waldman (Eds.).
21. Crowder J.R., Hunter L.S. Nursing students' perceptions of infant attractiveness. Journal of Pediatric Nursing 2004, 19:257-266.
22. Darby B.W., Jeffers D. The effects of defendant and juror attractiveness on simulated courtroom trial decisions. Social Behavior and Personality 1988, 16:39-50.
23. Dearing E., Hamilton L.C. Contemporary approaches and classic advice for analyzing mediating and moderating variables. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 2006, 71:88-104.
24. DeSantis A., Kayson W.A. Defendants' characteristics of attractiveness, race, and sex and sentencing decisions. Psychological Reports 1997, 81:679-683.
25. Dion K.K. Physical attractiveness and evaluation of children's transgressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1972, 24:207-213.
26. Dion K.K. Young children's stereotyping of facial attractiveness. Developmental Psychology 1973, 9:183-188.
27. Dion K.K. Children's physical attractiveness and sex as determinants of adult punitiveness. Developmental Psychology 1974, 10:772-778.
28. Dion K.K., Berscheid E., Walster E. What is beautiful is good. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1972, 24:285-290.
29. Dodge, K.A., Coie, J.D., & Lynam, D. (2006). Aggression and antisocial behavior in youth. In W. Damon (Series Ed.) & N. Eisenberg (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology, Vol. 3 (pp. 719-788). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
30. Eder D. The cycle of popularity: Interpersonal relations among female adolescents. Sociology of Education 1985, 58:154-165.
31. Elovitz G.P., Salvia J. Attractiveness as a biasing factor in the judgments of school psychologists. Journal of School Psychology 1982, 20:339-345.
32. Estell D.B., Farmer T.W., Pearl R., Van Acker R., Rodkin P.C. Social status and aggressive and disruptive behavior in girls: Individual, group, and classroom influences. Journal of School Psychology 2008, 46:193-212.
33. Fairchild A.J., MacKinnon D.P. A general model for testing mediation and moderation effects. Prevention Science 2009, 10:87-99.
34. Galen B.R., Underwood M.K. A developmental investigation of social aggression among children. Developmental Psychology 1997, 33:589-600.
35. Griffin A.M., Langlois J.H. Stereotype directionality and attractiveness stereotyping: Is beauty good or is ugly bad? Social Cognition 2006, 24:187-206.
36. Hamermesh D.S., Parker A. Beauty in the classroom: Instructors' pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity. Economics of Education Review 2005, 24:369-376.
37. Henderson J.J.A., Anglin J.M. Facial attractiveness predicts longevity. Evolution and Human Behavior 2003, 24:351-356.
38. Henry D.B., Miller-Johnson S., Simon T.R., Schoeny M.E. Validity of teacher ratings in selecting influential aggressive adolescents for a targeted preventive intervention. Prevention Science 2006, 7:31-41.
39. Hunsberger B., Cavanagh B. Physical attractiveness and children's expectations of potential teachers. Psychology in the Schools 1988, 25:70-74.
40. Hymel S., Vaillancourt T., McDougall P., Renshaw P.D. Peer acceptance and rejection in childhood. Blackwell handbook of childhood social development 2002, 265-284. Blackwell, Malden, MA. P.K. Smith, C.H. Hart (Eds.).
41. Katz S. The importance of being beautiful. Down to earth sociology 2007, 341-348. Free Press, New York. J.M. Henslin (Ed.).
42. Kenealy P., Frude N., Shaw W. Influence of children's physical attractiveness on teacher expectations. The Journal of Social Psychology 1988, 128:373-383.
43. Kleck R.E., Richardson S.A., Ronald C. Physical appearance cues and interpersonal attraction in children. Child Development 1974, 45:305-310.
44. Lagerspetz K.M., Bjorkqvist K., Peltonen T. Is indirect aggression typical of females? Gender differences in aggressiveness in 11-to 12-year-old children. Aggressive Behavior 1988, 14:403-414.
45. Landau S., Milich R. Assessment of children's social status and peer relations. Through the eyes of the child 1990, 259-291. Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA. A. La Greca (Ed.).
46. Langlois J.H., Roggman L.A. Attractive faces are only average. Psychological Science 1990, 1:115-121.
47. Langlois J.H., Ritter J.M., Casey R.J., Sawin D.B. Infant attractiveness predicts maternal behaviors and attitudes. Developmental Psychology 1995, 31:464-472.
48. Langlois J.H., Kalakanis L., Rubenstein A.J., Larson A., Hallam M., Smoot M. Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological Bulletin 2000, 126:390-423.
49. Ledingham J.E., Younger A., Schwartzman A., Bergeron G. Agreement among teacher, peer, and self-ratings of children's aggression, withdrawal, and likability. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 1982, 10:363-372.
50. Lerner R.M., Lerner J.V. The effects of age, sex, and physical attractiveness on child-peer relations, academic performance, and elementary school adjustment. Developmental Psychology 1977, 13:585-590.
51. Matson J.L., Esveldt-Dawson K., Kazdin A.E. Validation of methods for assessing social skills in children. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 1983, 12:174-180.
52. Mazzella R., Feingold A. The effects of physical attractiveness, race, socioeconomic status, and gender of defendants and victims on judgments of mock jurors: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 1994, 24:1315-1344.
53. McArthur L.Z., Berry D.S. Cross-cultural agreement in perceptions of babyfaced adults. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 1987, 18:165-192.
54. McGovern R.J., Neale M.C., Kendler K.S. The independence of physical attractiveness and symptoms of depression in a female twin population. The Journal of Psychology 1996, 130:209-219.
55. Merrell K.W., Buchanan R., Tran O.K. Relational aggression in children and adolescents: A review with implications for school settings. Psychology in the Schools 2006, 43:345-360.
56. Miller J.L., Vaillancourt T. Relation between childhood peer victimization and adult perfectionism: Are victims of indirect aggression more perfectionistic? Aggressive Behavior 2007, 33:230-241.
57. Owens L., Shute R., Slee P. 'Guess what I just heard!': Indirect aggression among teenage girls in Australia. Aggressive Behavior 2000, 26:67-83.
58. Pakaslahti L., Keltikangas-Jarvinen L. Comparison of peer, teacher and self-assessments on adolescent direct and indirect aggression. Educational Psychology 2000, 20:177-190.
59. Paquette J.A., Underwood M.K. Gender differences in young adolescents' experiences of peer victimization: Social and physical aggression. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 1999, 45:242-266.
60. Patzer G.L. The power and paradox of physical attractiveness 2006, Brown Walker Press, Boca Raton, FL.
61. Pekarik E.G., Prinz R.J., Liebert D.E., Weintraub S., Neale J.M. The pupil evaluation inventory: A sociometric technique for assessing children's social behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 1976, 4:83-97.
62. Putallaz M., Grimes C.L., Foster K.J., Kupersmidt J.B., Coie J.D., Dearing K. Overt and relational aggression and victimization: Multiple perspectives within the school setting. Journal of School Psychology 2007, 45:523-547.
63. Ramsey J.L., Langlois J.H. Effects of the "beauty is good" stereotype on children's information processing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2002, 81:320-340.
64. Riniolo T.C., Johnson K.C., Sherman T.R., Misso J.A. Hot or not: Do professors perceived as physically attractive receive higher student evaluations? The Journal of General Psychology 2006, 133:19-35.
65. Ritts V., Patterson M.L., Tubbs M.E. Impressions and judgments of physically attractive students: A review. Review of Educational Research 1992, 62:413-426.
66. Rodkin P.C., Hodges E.V.E. Bullies and victims in the peer ecology: Four questions for psychologists and school professionals. School Psychology Review 2003, 32:384-400.
67. Rodkin P.C., Farmer T.W., Pearl R., Van Acker R. Heterogeneity of popular boys: Antisocial and prosocial configurations. Developmental Psychology 2000, 36:14-24.
68. Rodkin P.C., Farmer T.W., Pearl R., Van Acker R. They're cool: Social status and peer group supports for aggressive boys and girls. Social Development 2006, 15:175-204.
69. Rodkin P.C., Farmer T.W., Van Acker R., Pearl R., Thompson J.H., Fedora P. Who do students with mild disabilities nominate as cool in inclusive general education classrooms? Journal of School Psychology 2006, 44:67-84.
70. Rosen L.H., Underwood M.K., Beron K.B., Gentsch J.K., Wharton M., Rahdar E. Persistent versus periodic experiences of social victimization: Predictors of adjustment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 2009, 37:693-704.
71. Salvia J., Sheare J.B., Algozzine B. Facial attractiveness and personal-social development. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 1975, 3:171-178.
72. Sandomierski T., Kincaid D., Algozzine B. Response to intervention and positive behavior support: Brothers from different mothers or sisters with different misters? PBIS newsletter 2008, 4(2). Retrieved October 20, 2009 from http://pbis.org/pbis_newsletter/volume_4/issue2.aspx.
73. Sandstrom M.J., Schanberg L.E. Brief report: Peer rejection, social behavior, and psychological adjustment in children with juvenile rheumatic disease. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2004, 29:29-34.
74. Sifers S.K., Puddy R.W., Warren J.S., Roberts M.C. Reporting of demographics, methodology, and ethical procedures in journals in pediatric and child psychology. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2002, 27:19-25.
75. Stephan C.W., Langlois J.H. Baby beautiful: Adult attributions of infant competence as a function of infant attractiveness. Child Development 1984, 55:576-585.
76. Stewart J.E. Defendant's attractiveness as a factor in the outcome of criminal trials: An observational study. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 1980, 10:348-361.
77. Sugai G., Horner R.R. A promising approach for expanding and sustaining school-wide positive behavior support. School Psychology Review 2006, 35:245-259.
78. Swearer S.M. Relational aggression: Not just a female issue. Journal of School Psychology 2008, 46:611-616.
79. Enrollment by gender and ethnicity 2009, Texas Education Agency, Retrieved October 20, 2009, from http://www.tea.state.tx.us/.
80. Snapshot 2008 district detail 2009, Texas Education Agency, Retrieved October 20, 2009, from http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/snapshot/2008/district.srch.html.
81. Underwood M.K. Social aggression among girls 2003, Guilford, New York.
82. Underwood M.K. Glares of contempt, eye rolls of disgust, and turning away to exclude: Understanding nonverbal forms of social aggression among girls. Feminism and Psychology 2004, 14:371-375.
83. Underwood M.K., Coie J.D. Future directions and priorities for prevention and intervention. Aggression, antisocial behavior, and violence among girls: a developmental perspective 2004, 289-301. Guilford, NY, NY. M. Putallaz, K.L. Bierman (Eds.).
84. Underwood M.K., Rosen L.H. Gender, peer relations, and challenges for girlfriends and boyfriends coming together in adolescence. Psychology of Women Quarterly 2009, 33:16-20.
85. Underwood M.K., Beron K.J., Rosen L.H. Continuity and change in social and physical aggression from middle childhood through early adolescence. Aggressive Behavior 2009, 35:357-375.
86. Underwood, M. K., Beron, K. B., and Rosen, L. H. (2010). Joint trajectories for social and physical aggression as predictors of adolescent maladjustment: Internalizing symptoms, rule-breaking behaviors, and borderline and narcissistic personality features. Manuscript submitted for publication.
87. U.S. Census Bureau: State and County QuickFacts. Data derived from population estimates, 2000 census of population and housing 2000, United States Census Bureau, Retrieved August 23, 2006, from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48113.html.
88. Vaillancourt T., Hymel S. Aggression and social status: The moderating roles of sex and peer-valued characteristics. Aggressive Behavior 2006, 32:396-408.
89. Vaughn B.E., Langlois J.H. Physical attractiveness as a correlate of peer status and social competence in preschool children. Developmental Psychology 1983, 19:561-567.
90. Wright J.C., Giammarino M., Parad H.W. Social status in small groups: Individual-group similarity and the social "misfit.". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1986, 50:523-536.
91. Xie H., Cairns R.B., Cairns B.D. Social networks and configurations in inner-city schools: Aggression, popularity, and implications for students with EBD. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 1999, 7:147-155.
92. Xie H., Li Y., Boucher S.M., Hutchins B.C., Cairns B.D. What makes a girl (or a boy) popular (or unpopular)? African American children's perceptions and developmental differences. Developmental Psychology 2006, 42:599-612.