The relationship between affective response to social comparison and academic performance in high school |
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| Authors: | Maike JPW Wehrens Abraham P Buunk Miranda J Lubbers Pieternel Dijkstra Hans Kuyper Greetje PC van der Werf |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Organizational Psychology, University of groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;2. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;3. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;4. Groningen Institute for Educational Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | The goal of the present study was to study the relationship between affective responses to social comparison and test scores among high school students. Our analyses showed that three types of responses to social comparison could be distinguished: an empathic, constructive, and destructive response. Whereas girls scored higher on empathic response, boys scored higher on destructive response. In addition, students who had a high social comparison orientation (SCO) scored higher on all three types of responses than students who expressed a low SCO. Multilevel regression analyses indicated that, after controlling for previous performance, a destructive response was negatively related to performance on tests for reading comprehension and mathematics. An empathic response was positively related to performance on reading comprehension only whereas a constructive response compensated the negative relationship between destructive response and reading comprehension. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Social comparison High school Affective responses Achievements Social comparison orientation |
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