The social status of aggressive students across contexts: The role of classroom status hierarchy, academic achievement, and grade

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1699-1710

  Garandeau, Claire F ^a   Ahn, Hai Jeong ^b   Rodkin, Philip C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Aggression; Hierarchy; Popularity; Status

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PEER GROUP; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; PEER GROUP; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS;

EID: 82755168820     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025271     Document Type: Article

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