Cooperative and Competitive Attitudes During Adolescence and Their Social and Academic Outcomes

Individuals develop diverse social attitudes during adolescence. This study focused on adolescents’ cooperative and competitive attitudes from grades 7–11 and their outcomes in grade 12. The sample included 6,908 South Korean adolescents (47.6% girls, mean age = 12.83, range = 12–15). Latent cross-l...

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Published in:Journal of youth and adolescence 2022-04, Vol.51 (4), p.792-804
Main Authors: Lee, You-kyung, Seo, Eunjin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescents
Attitude
Attitudes
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Child
Child and School Psychology
Child development
Clinical Psychology
Competition
Empirical Research
Female
Health Psychology
History of Psychology
Humans
Law and Psychology
Male
Psychology
Social attitudes
Teachers
Teenagers
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Summary:Individuals develop diverse social attitudes during adolescence. This study focused on adolescents’ cooperative and competitive attitudes from grades 7–11 and their outcomes in grade 12. The sample included 6,908 South Korean adolescents (47.6% girls, mean age = 12.83, range = 12–15). Latent cross-lagged models revealed negative directional associations between cooperative and compet itive attitudes for grades 7–10, but no significant associations for grades 10–11. Cooperative attitudes contributed more to social than academic outcomes, whereas competitive attitudes more positively predicted academic outcomes. The results suggest that educators who support early to mid-adolescents’ cooperative or competitive attitudes need to strike a delicate balance as these attitudes do not change independently and both have distinct strengths and weaknesses.
ISSN:0047-2891
1573-6601
DOI:10.1007/s10964-022-01583-8