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. 2023 Feb;64(1):40-52.
doi: 10.1111/sjop.12863. Epub 2022 Aug 8.

Exploring the peer status prototypes: A large-scale latent profile analysis on high-school students from four European countries

Marco Marinucci  1 , Luca Pancani  1 , Paolo Riva  1
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Exploring the peer status prototypes: A large-scale latent profile analysis on high-school students from four European countries

Marco Marinucci et al. Scand J Psychol. 2023 Feb.

Abstract

Peer status - the regard other group members have of an individual - is fundamental for youth development. Different research traditions developed independent theoretical frameworks conceiving the dimensions underlying social status, and this led to identifying a variety of peer status prototypes. In this work, we explored whether a classification based on the four dimensions of popularity, aggression, dislike, and victimization could integrate the scattered peer status profiles found in the different traditions. A latent profile analysis on 16,224 European students identified the peer status prototypes of popular, bullies, disliked, victims, and average students. Both the peer- and self-reported correlates supported that the five profiles accounted for the large variety of the students' profiles in the literature. These findings suggest that the adoption of a multidimensional approach supported by advanced statistical procedures could identify students' peer status profiles more effectively, replacing classifications based on cutoffs, and leading to a unified students' classification.

Keywords: Peer status; interpersonal processes; latent profile analysis; peer nomination; sociometric status.

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Graphic representation of the 5‐class solution (Model K5): classroom‐centered, mean values of the peer‐reported sociometric indices are displayed.
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Profiles' estimated means and standard errors of the self‐reported correlates.
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