blog 16

The article I read today was called, "Adjustment of Popular Teens in Emerging Adulthood."  It basically talked about how teenagers went from high school into the real world and how they adjusted based on their early childhood to after graduation.  The article was followed over a span of three years.  The information that was gathered was self reported by the 264 students involved in the lower middle class.  They were asked to take a survey about depression, psychopathology, workplace victimization, and risk behavior.  Studies show that starting early in life, children that are socially awkward are at a higher risk at being unaccepted by others around them as they get older.  They have a problem easing their way into different social classes or groups due to the last of sociability.  The study also suggests the difference between popularity and perceived popularity.  It also shows that rational aggression has a lot to do with how young adults move forward in life and are accepted into different groups.  Physical rational aggression starts to lower as children get older, such as in middle school and is at its lowest in high school.  Scientists believe that there is more to “getting along” with other peers than our personality.  Obviously factors such as a person’s background and social status play a factor in some judgement of the person.  Like-ability and sociability are the most contributing factors to long term friendships and relationships.  Since the study is focused on only certain factors, the article agrees that even with the tests and its results, there is more to a person than can be studied and this is why it is so hard to see why people treat others the way they do.