Social Isolation and Ambition: A Two-Wave Correlational Study of School Ostracism and Goal Abandonment in High-Achieving Adolescents
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Independent student research project examining the relationship between chronic school peer ostracism and thoughts of abandoning ambitious personal goals in high-achieving adolescents. Across two independent samples (Wave 1, N = 82, CIS-based Co-founder ecosystem; Wave 2, N = 35, international communities), we find a robust positive correlation between school ostracism and goal-abandonment ideation (pooled N = 117; r ≈ 0.61). A formal Baron-Kenny mediation analysis supports full mediation through school burnout. This OSF project contains the manuscript, anonymized Wave 2 data, and a reproducibility analysis script.
Source: PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)
Author: Aleksandr Anikeev
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7167159913