Machiavellianism and Sociometrical Status of an Adolescent in a Study Group

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Abstract

The focus of presented article was to determine presence and to describe the character of interrelation of Machiavellianism and the sociometric status in adolescence. The research was carried out during two years on 44 sixth graders, 51 seventh graders, 51 eighth graders and 59 ninth graders. To study sociometric status authors used sociometry method and level of Machiavellianism was assessed by Machiavellianism scale Mach-IV by R. Christy and F. Geis. The results show that among young adolescents the level of Machiavellianism is lower for high-status adolescents than adolescents of other status groups. Older adolescent groups didn't show such pattern. Besides, the findings suggested that level of Machiavellianism grows when status of the child lowers in case a group where adolescent loses sociometric atoms is referential to him.

General Information

Journal rubric: Developmental Psychology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Pogodina A.V., Larina A.D. Machiavellianism and Sociometrical Status of an Adolescent in a Study Group. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie = Psychological Science and Education, 2007. Vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 252–258. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Alla V. Pogodina, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Head of Management Psychology Chair, Department of Social Psychology, Moscow State University of psychology and education (MSUPE), head of the master's program "Organizational Psychology", Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0549-712X, e-mail: pogodinaav@mgppu.ru

Alexandra D. Larina, Teacher of the Faculty of Social Psychology, Moscow State University of psychology and education (MSUPE), Research Fellow of the Institute of Psychiatry of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Professional Psychotherapy League of Russia, Moscow, Russia

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