
Status and Social Comparisons Among Adolescents
Popularity in the Age of Social Media
- 202 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This insightful book examines the differences in the perception of social status and how they impact youth mental health and well-being. Looking at social status from a developmental perspective, the author explores the expansion of opportunities for social comparison and complex social hierarchies driven by social media use.
Focusing on how social status is ever-present across species in the animal world, the book begins by exploring the biology of social status, the biological mechanisms by which it affects health, and how it presents in the spaces in which children and adolescents live e.g., schools, neighbourhoods, and cultures. Case studies of adolescents interviewed about social status are included, as well as a final chapter detailing specific steps to help minimise the effects of hierarchies on health and ways to approach social status differences.
Bridging anthropological, economic, developmental, and psychological literature on children and adolescent social hierarchies, this book is an invaluable guide for parents, educators, and clinicians such as school counsellors, psychologists, pediatricians, pediatric psychiatrists, and other health care providers to better understand and support youth's behaviour. This will also be of interest for students studying Adolescent Health and Adolescent Development.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Biology of social status, from animals to humans
- 2 Evolution of status in human history
- 3 What is known about social status and health
- 4 Social status in adolescents, from the playground to social media
- 5 The context of status: Societies, culture, and the media
- 6 Social status and mental health and the larger environment
- 7 Common clinical presentations related to social status
- 8 What teens have to say about status
- 9 The psychology of social rank: Social comparisons, dominance, and submission
- 10 What to do: Examples of good use of status dynamics
- References
- Index