Popularity According to Emerging Adults: What is it, and How to Acquire it

Author:

Lansu Tessa A. M.1ORCID,Findley-Van Nostrand Danielle2,Cillessen Antonius H. N.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Developmental Psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2. Department of Psychology, Roanoke College, Salem, VA, USA

Abstract

Status among peers likely continues to play a role in social functioning and well-being beyond adolescence. This study examined how emerging adults in tertiary education defined popularity, and their beliefs regarding aggressive and prosocial behaviors affording status. The role of status motivation, own status, and gender in these definitions and beliefs were explored. Emerging adults primarily associated popularity with being central, liked, and respected. Gender prototypical features (attractiveness and likeability for women; power and centrality for men) were associated with high popularity. Compared to adolescence, popularity in emerging adulthood was associated more with likeability and less with attractiveness, power, fitting in, or antisocial behavior. Prosocial behavior, openness, extraversion, and dominance were identified as the most important ways to acquire popularity. The findings indicate that popularity is relevant to emerging adults and offer several directions for future research in order to benefit the social well-being of emerging adults in tertiary education.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Life-span and Life-course Studies,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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