Dimensions of adolescent subjective social status within the school community: description and correlates

SWEETING, H, WEST, P, YOUNG, R and KELLY, Shona J (2011). Dimensions of adolescent subjective social status within the school community: description and correlates. Journal of Adolescence, 34 (3), 493-504.

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Link to published version:: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.06.001

Abstract

School pupils strive to meet both school-defined and social goals, and the structure of adolescent self-concept is multidimensional, including both academic and non-academic self-perceptions. However, subjective social status within the school community has been represented as a single dimension. Scottish 15-year olds participating in a school-based survey (N = 3194) rated their own status, compared to their school year-group, via images of seven 10-rung ladders. These generated a very high response rate, and factor analysis distinguished three dimensions: (1) ladders representing “popular”, “powerful”, “respected”, “attractive or stylish” and “trouble-maker”; (2) “doing well at school” and “[not] a trouble-maker”; and (3) “sporty”. Unique relationships with variables representing more objective and/or self-report behavioural measures suggest these dimensions are markers of “peer”, “scholastic” and “sports” status. These analyses suggest multiple dimensions of adolescent social hierarchy can be very simply measured and contribute towards the development of more robust instruments within this area.

Item Type: Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Centre for Health and Social Care Research
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.06.001
Page Range: 493-504
Depositing User: Shona Kelly
Date Deposited: 31 Jan 2013 14:48
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 20:00
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6670

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