Although many emerging adults feel lonely and struggle to gain status during the college transition, it remains unclear whether certain personality traits facilitate this transition. Using a longitudinal design, we investigated whether status-related traits—namely, entitlement, intrasexual competitiveness, and dominance—related to the development of status in 91 first-year college students (M_age = 18.15, SD = 0.44) transitioning to a novel college environment. We also examined whether status-related personality traits moderated the degree to which status related to loneliness. As hypothesized, only students high in intrasexual competitiveness experienced increases in subjective dorm status across the year. In addition, students exhibiting average or low entitlement experienced decreases in loneliness over time, whereas high entitlement was related to consistently low loneliness. Finally, higher subjective dorm status was related to lower loneliness only for less dominant students, as assessed by both self-ratings of trait dominance and raters’ judgments of facial dominance from photographs. Using a real-world context of status development, these results suggest that status-related personality traits may influence students’ ability to experience higher status and modulate the relation between subjective status and loneliness.

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在向大学过渡期间获得地位并减少孤独感：权利、性内竞争和支配地位的作用


尽管许多新兴成年人在大学过渡期间感到孤独并努力获得地位，但仍不清楚某些人格特征是否促进了这种过渡。通过纵向设计，我们调查了 91 名一年级大学生（ M_年龄= 18.15， SD = 0.44）过渡到小说的身份相关特征（即权利、性内竞争力和支配地位）是否与地位的发展相关。大学环境。我们还研究了与地位相关的人格特质是否调节了地位与孤独感的相关程度。正如假设的那样，只有性内竞争力高的学生在一年中经历了主观宿舍状况的增加。此外，随着时间的推移，表现出平均或低水平的学生的孤独感会减少，而高水平的学生则与持续的低孤独感相关。最后，只有对于不太占优势的学生来说，较高的主观宿舍状况与较低的孤独感相关，这是通过特质优势的自我评估和评估者对照片中面部优势的判断来评估的。利用现实世界的地位发展背景，这些结果表明，与地位相关的人格特质可能会影响学生体验更高地位的能力，并调节主观地位与孤独感之间的关系。