Introduction A systematic meta-analysis was conducted of the association between
preference and popularity across childhood and adolescence. The role of development, sex …

Objective: Adolescents' relationships with their peers play a pivotal role in their substance-
use behaviors. As such, decades of research have examined how substance use relates to …

Little is known about individual differences in adolescents' motivation to achieve and
maintain popularity. This study examined the moderating effects of prioritizing popularity on …

This article presents a literature review of studies examining the influence of Big Five
personality traits on everyday and experimental risk-taking, both in adolescence and …

Well-liked adolescents are more likely than their peers to engage in sexual behaviors, which
may place them at higher risk of negative outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections …

This study explores differences in the conceptualization of social competence according to
the measure used. To do so, the relations of influence of social cognition variables in the …

This study investigated the social status (ie, popularity, likeability, and friendships) of
adolescents with an early onset of externalizing behavior (ie, alcohol use, tobacco use, and …

This study applied a sociometric approach to examine the traditional sexual double standard
within a sample of Dutch adolescents (N= 1,175; 53.8% females; M age= 14.75). Drawing on …

This study examined the associations between children's early life experiences with parents,
ego resiliency and ego undercontrol, and peer group social status in a longitudinal …

Variations in pubertal timing and tempo have relevance to psychosocial development.
Accounting for pubertal timing, tempo, and psychosocial development simultaneously in a …