The psychological concept of popularity includes a wide array of behavioral tendencies.
During early adolescence procuring and conserving high-status positions among peer groups is of colossal importance to the majority of juveniles. So much so that adolescents tend to place higher emphasis on reputational status rather than academic achievement, romantic relationships, and other social interactions. Consequently, the romantic relationships young adolescents do engage in are to promote peer status. high-status positions can be linked to aggression as well as prosocial behaviors towards a particular group of individuals or cliques. Specifically, the varying levels of such behaviors derive from two types of high-status adolescents, popular prosocial …show more content…
Furthermore, these adolescents primarily steer such behaviors to other popular peers. In the film Mean Girls, queen bee Regina, although cruel and unrelenting to all, is especially captured the majority of the time verbally degrading and showing instances of mistreatment towards her so called best friends, Karen, Gretchen, and Cady. In the film, relational and indirect aggression is most common. A particular scene showed Regina talking to Aaron Samuels, her ex-boyfriend and Cady’s current crush. While making Cady believe she was putting in a good word for her, Regina in actuality Portrayed Cady as a psychotic stalker, obsessed and watchful of Aaron’s every move, even stating that she went as far as to save a used Kleenex of his. Another scene in the film captured Regina using derogatory terms such as “slut,” to refer to Karen and the reason why no one nominated her for Spring Fling Queen, also mentioning that no one would vote for Gretchen because she wasn’t pretty enough. These forms of aggression don’t apply solely to Regina. Hence, Cady hatches a plan to bring Regina down and begins to manipulate Gretchen into thinking that Regina no longer values her as a friend when she sends herself a candy Kane with Regina’s name on it and Gretchen doesn’t receive one. This in turn causes Gretchen to reveal Regina’s dark secrets such as her nose job and the fact that her parents’ marriage is slowly deteriorating. In the beginning of the film we see the different comments the general body of students’ attribute to Regina’s name, one particular female discussed the fact that Regina had physically assaulted her, punching her in the face. Disingenuously enough however, the film distorted the genuine sentiments victimized adolescents feel about such aggression. The girl in
During early adolescence procuring and conserving high-status positions among peer groups is of colossal importance to the majority of juveniles. So much so that adolescents tend to place higher emphasis on reputational status rather than academic achievement, romantic relationships, and other social interactions. Consequently, the romantic relationships young adolescents do engage in are to promote peer status. high-status positions can be linked to aggression as well as prosocial behaviors towards a particular group of individuals or cliques. Specifically, the varying levels of such behaviors derive from two types of high-status adolescents, popular prosocial …show more content…
Furthermore, these adolescents primarily steer such behaviors to other popular peers. In the film Mean Girls, queen bee Regina, although cruel and unrelenting to all, is especially captured the majority of the time verbally degrading and showing instances of mistreatment towards her so called best friends, Karen, Gretchen, and Cady. In the film, relational and indirect aggression is most common. A particular scene showed Regina talking to Aaron Samuels, her ex-boyfriend and Cady’s current crush. While making Cady believe she was putting in a good word for her, Regina in actuality Portrayed Cady as a psychotic stalker, obsessed and watchful of Aaron’s every move, even stating that she went as far as to save a used Kleenex of his. Another scene in the film captured Regina using derogatory terms such as “slut,” to refer to Karen and the reason why no one nominated her for Spring Fling Queen, also mentioning that no one would vote for Gretchen because she wasn’t pretty enough. These forms of aggression don’t apply solely to Regina. Hence, Cady hatches a plan to bring Regina down and begins to manipulate Gretchen into thinking that Regina no longer values her as a friend when she sends herself a candy Kane with Regina’s name on it and Gretchen doesn’t receive one. This in turn causes Gretchen to reveal Regina’s dark secrets such as her nose job and the fact that her parents’ marriage is slowly deteriorating. In the beginning of the film we see the different comments the general body of students’ attribute to Regina’s name, one particular female discussed the fact that Regina had physically assaulted her, punching her in the face. Disingenuously enough however, the film distorted the genuine sentiments victimized adolescents feel about such aggression. The girl in