Chemistry Abitur task: Why is the radical more stable?

Hello, I did an A-level exercise on polystyrene for practice and wanted to ask why the other radical of the monomer isn't preferred, or how the benzene ring might be related to this…

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Picus48
11 months ago

In the benzyl radical, the unpaired electron is located in a plane with the π electron system of the aromatic ring. In this case, the unpaired electron can be delocalized over the entire molecule and is mesomerit-stabilized.