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Social Isolation and Ambition: A Two-Wave Correlational Study of School Ostracism and Goal Abandonment in High-Achieving Adolescents

  • Aleksandr Anikeev
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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.

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@misc{anikeev2026social,
  title = {{Social Isolation and Ambition: A Two-Wave Correlational Study of School Ostracism and Goal Abandonment in High-Achieving Adolescents}},
  author = {Aleksandr Anikeev},
  howpublished = {PsyArXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.31234/osf.io/yjmw5_v2},
  url = {https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/yjmw5_v2/},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Social Isolation and Ambition: A Two-Wave Correlational Study of School Ostracism and Goal Abandonment in High-Achieving Adolescents
AU  - Aleksandr Anikeev
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/17
PB  - PsyArXiv
DO  - 10.31234/osf.io/yjmw5_v2
UR  - https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/yjmw5_v2/
AB  - 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.
ER  -