Adolescents with an entity theory of personality are more vigilant to social status and use relational aggression to maintain social status

The present research proposed that one social‐cognitive root of adolescents' willingness to use relational aggression to maintain social status in high school is an entity theory of personality , which is the belief that people's social status‐relevant traits are fixed and cannot change. Aggregated data from three studies ( N = 882) showed that first‐year high school adolescents in the United States who endorsed more of an entity theory were...