Parenting Practices and Peer Group Affiliation in Adolescence

1993 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 467 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bradford Brown ◽  
Nina Mounts ◽  
Susie D. Lamborn ◽  
Laurence Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Group Affiliation

scholarly journals Prediction of Early-Onset Deviant Peer Group Affiliation

2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Lacourse ◽  
Daniel S. Nagin ◽  
Frank Vitaro ◽  
Sylvana Côté ◽  
Louise Arseneault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Onset ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Group Affiliation

Social networks and aggressive behaviour in Chinese children

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiyuan Xu ◽  
Jo Ann M. Farver ◽  
David Schwartz ◽  
Lei Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Peer Preference ◽  
Aggressive Children

This exploratory study investigated Mainland Chinese children’s social networks and peer group affiliations with a particular emphasis on their aggressive behaviour. The participants were 294 elementary school students in Tianjin, P. R. China (mean age 11.5 years; 161 boys). Social network analysis identified relatively large and gender-specific peer groups. Although different measures were used, the pattern of homophily characteristic of Western aggressive children was partially supported. This finding may be due to the large size of the peer groups. The results showed that some aggressive children formed friendships with nonaggressive children. Moreover, for the aggressive children who were group members, the number of within-group friendships moderated the relation between aggression and overall peer preference. In addition, despite the moderating effect of within-group friendship, the relation between aggression and peer preference remained significantly negative even at the highest levels of friendship. Aggressive children who were isolated from all peer groups had higher hyperactivity ratings and were less liked by peers than were aggressive children who were group members. These findings illustrate how culture may be an influence on patterns of peer group affiliation.

scholarly journals Characteristic Processes in Close Peer Friendships of Preterm Infants at Age 12

Scientifica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Sullivan ◽  
Suzy Barcelos Winchester ◽  
Jeffrey G. Parker ◽  
Amy K. Marks
Keyword(s):  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Full Sample ◽  
Close Friendships ◽  
Q Factors ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal ◽  
Q Sort

Close friendships become important at middle-school age and are unexplored in adolescents born prematurely. The study aimed to characterize friendship behaviors of formerly preterm infants at age 12 and explore similarities and differences between preterm and full-term peers on dyadic friendship types. From the full sample ofN=186, one hundred sixty-six 12-year-old adolescents (40 born full term, 126 born preterm) invited a close friend to a 1.5 hour videotaped laboratory play session. Twenty adolescents were unable to participate due to scheduling conflicts or developmental disability. Characteristic friendship behaviors were identified by Q-sort followed by Q-factoring analysis. Friendship duration, age, and contact differed between the full-term and preterm groups but friendship activities, behaviors, and quality were similar despite school service use. Three Q-factors, leadership, distancing, and mutual playfulness, were most characteristic of all dyads, regardless of prematurity. These prospective, longitudinal findings demonstrate diminished prematurity effects at adolescence in peer friendship behavior and reveal interpersonal dyadic processes that are important to peer group affiliation and other areas of competence.

Developmental trajectories of boys' delinquent group membership and facilitation of violent behaviors during adolescence

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIC LACOURSE ◽  
DANIEL NAGIN ◽  
RICHARD E. TREMBLAY ◽  
FRANK VITARO ◽  
MICHEL CLAES
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Population Heterogeneity ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Facilitation Effect ◽  
Violent Behaviors ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
Delinquent Peer ◽  
Delinquent Peers ◽  
Delinquent Group

Being part of a delinquent group has been shown to facilitate the expression of an individual's own delinquent propensities. However, this facilitation effect has not been investigated from a developmental perspective within a population heterogeneity model. Using a semiparametric mixture model with data from the Montreal Longitudinal Experimental Study, this article addresses important issues in the developmental trends of membership to delinquent groups. We explore how the rate of violent behaviors follows delinquent peer group trajectories and investigate a differential facilitation effect of delinquent peers on violence across multiple developmental pathways. Results suggest that 25% of males followed a childhood or an adolescence delinquent group affiliation trajectory. These two groups account for most of the violent acts assessed during adolescence. In addition, the rate of violent behaviors follows these developmental trajectories. Controlling for these delinquent group trajectories, we also found that being involved in a delinquent group at any specific time during adolescence is associated with an increased rate of violent behaviors, and that leaving these groups results in a decrease in violent behaviors. This facilitation effect appears homogeneous over time and across developmental trajectories. Results are discussed from a social interactional perspective.

scholarly journals Hanging out with the wrong crowd? The role of unstructured socializing in adolescents' specialization in delinquency and substance use

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eveline Hoeben ◽  
Wayne Osgood ◽  
Sonja Siennick ◽  
Frank Weerman
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Unstructured Socializing

Objectives: Despite abundant attention to offending specialization in criminology, scholars have only recently started to explore opportunity-driven explanations for within-individual patterns of specialization. The current study examines whether unstructured socializing with specific friends can explain within-individual changes in adolescents’ degree of specialization in delinquency and substance use. Methods: Data were derived from the PROSPER Peers Project, a longitudinal study consisting of five waves of data on 11,183 adolescents (aged 10 to 17). The data include self-reports about engagement in delinquency and substance use, sociometric information, and information on the time respondents reported spending in unstructured socializing with their nominated friends. Hypotheses were tested with negative binomial and binomial logit multilevel models. Results: The findings indicate that involvement in unstructured socializing with friends who steal, vandalize, commit violence, use alcohol, use cigarettes, or use drugs enhances adolescents’ risks for engagement in those respective behaviors. Such activity affects adolescents’ quantitative engagement as well as their level of specialization in these behaviors.Conclusions: The study indicates that routine activity—in particular involvement in unstructured socializing—explains within-individual changes in deviance specialization among adolescents. Thus, exposure to opportunities can explain why adolescents specialize in certain types of delinquency and substance use in one time-period, and in other types of behavior in other time-periods. This adds a proximate explanation for this phenomenon to other explanations that focus on local life circumstances and peer group affiliation.

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