Gedragsstrategieën van brugklassers ter verkrijging van resource control: Directe effecten en moderatie door sekse

Abstract

Social status is important to individuals. People always live in groups and within these groups there is always a status hierarchy. Ethologists explain social status in terms of social dominance. Hawley describes social dominance as the control of resources in her Resource Control Theory. In this theory two behavioral strategies are central for the gaining of recourses, prosocial and coercive strategies. This study expands on this theory by exploring a new strategy, inspirational behavior. Hypothesized is, after combining Resource Control Theory and the Socioanalytic Theory, that the inspirational strategy will be effective. Besides that the moderating role of gender was examined. Participants is this research where 619 Dutch adolescents. Data was gathered using peer-rating questions. Data showed that inspirational and coercive strategies where most effective by gaining resource control, prosocial strategies seemed to be less effective. This study expands on previous theory, and makes therefore interesting suggestions for future research.