ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Pressured to climb the social ladder: the role of popularity, social preference, and parents and friends in adolescents' popularity-motivated aggression.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: This study examines how perceived pressure from parents and friends to attain social status moderates the relationship between peer status (popularity, social preference) and popularity-motivated aggression (relational aggression, cyber aggression) over 1 year. Methods: A sample of 767 eighth-grade students completed self-reported measures of aggression and peer nominations of popularity and social preference. Results: Structural equation modeling showed that popularity was positively associated with both types of aggression, while social preference was negatively associated. Higher perceived pressure from parents and friends to be popular strengthened the link between popularity and aggression, whereas pressure to be socially preferred was negatively related to aggression. Discussion: These findings highlight the role of socialization agents in shaping adolescent aggression, supporting social learning theory and the dual influence model. Implications suggest the need for parental and peer interventions to mitigate status-driven aggression and encourage positive social behaviors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.