Adolescent boys' friendships and peer group culture

Chu, Judy Y.

doi:10.1002/cd.118

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“…Authenticity is a concept primarily seen in research with girls, as it was developed from a feminist psychology perspective (e.g., Impett et al 2008). Nonetheless, similar relational patterns are seen in research with boys (e.g., Chu 2005). For both boys and girls, a lack of authenticity is related to lower wellbeing and higher feelings of pressure to conform.…”

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“…In addition, boys may feel additional pressure to drink due to gender role norms that relate alcohol use to masculinity (Schulte et al 2009). This pressure may be exacerbated in weaker friendships, where boys feel pressure to assert masculinity (Chu 2005), especially in friendships with heavier drinking girls, whose behavior may be seen as a challenge to boys’ masculinity. In contrast, closer female friends had a negative socializing effect on boys’ drinking behavior.…”

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The Role of Gender and Friends’ Gender on Peer Socialization of Adolescent Drinking: A Prospective Multilevel Social Network Analysis

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Steinley

Slutske

2013

J Youth Adolescence

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Although socializing effects of friends’ drinking on adolescent drinking behavior have been firmly established in previous literature, study results on the importance of gender, as well as the specific role that gender may play in peer socialization, are very mixed. Given the increasing importance of gender in friendships (particularly opposite-sex friendships) during adolescence, it is necessary to better understand the nuanced roles that gender can play in peer socialization effects on alcohol use. In addition, previous studies focusing on the interplay between individual gender and friends’ gender have been largely dyadic; less is known about potential gendered effects of broader social networks. The current study sought to further investigate potential effects of gender on friends’ influence on adolescent drinking behavior with particular emphasis on the number of same-sex and opposite-sex friends within one’s friendship network, as well as closeness to these friends. Using Waves I and II of the saturated sample of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adolescent friendship networks were used to calculate the mean drinking behaviors of adolescent friends. Multi-level models estimated the effects of individual drinking behaviors, friend drinking behaviors, and school-level drinking behaviors on adolescent drinking 1 year later, as well as moderating effects of gender composition of friendship groups and male and female friend closeness on the relationship between friends’ drinking behaviors and adolescent drinking behavior. Results documented that gender composition of friendship groups did not influence the effect of friends’ drinking on individual drinking 1 year later. However, closeness to friends did influence this relationship. As closeness to male friends decreased, the influence of their drinking behavior increased, for both boys and girls. A similar effect was found for female friends, but only for boys. Female friend closeness did not affect the relationship between peer alcohol socialization and girls’ alcohol use. The findings indicate that the role of gender on alcohol socialization may be more complex than previously thought, particularly when examining the potential role that alcohol use may play as a mechanism for social bonding within opposite-sex friendships and same-sex male friendships.

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The Role of Gender and Friends’ Gender on Peer Socialization of Adolescent Drinking: A Prospective Multilevel Social Network Analysis

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Steinley

Slutske

2013

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Adhering to the norms of a network allows one to maintain standing in the network. Second, adolescents may provide resources such as help with homework, knowledge about opportunities, and emotional support to those whom they consider friends (Alfassi 1998; Fuchs, Fuchs, and Kazdan 1999; Way and Chen 2000; Crosnoe et al 2003; Chu 2005; Stanton-Salazar and Spina 2005; Riegle-Crumb, Farkas, and Muller 2006). …”

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The Embeddedness of Adolescent Friendship Nominations: The Formation of Social Capital in Emergent Network Structures

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Mueller

2013

American Journal of Sociology

167

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Although research on social embeddedness and social capital con-firms the value of friendship networks, little has been written about how social relations form and are structured by social institutions. Using data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement study and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors show that the odds of a new friendship nomination were 1.77 times greater within clusters of high school students taking courses together than between them. The estimated effect cannot be attributed to exposure to peers in similar grade levels, indirect friendship links, or pair-level course overlap, and the finding is robust to alternative model specifications. The authors also show how tendencies associated with status hierarchy inhering in triadic friendship nominations are neutralized within the clusters. These results have implications for the production and distribution of social capital within social systems such as schools, giving the clusters social salience as “local positions.”

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“…Mothers also encourage more autonomy and independence in their sons than daughters (Pomerantz and Ruble, 1998). Outside of the family, adolescent boys often face pressure from peers to adhere to masculine norms of independence and detachment (Basow, 1992; Chu, 2005). Thus, both parent and adolescent play a role in the potentially greater distancing between sons and parents than daughters and parents during adolescence.…”

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Self-esteem and mastery trajectories in high school by social class and gender

Falci

2011

Social Science Research

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Using longitudinal data from 769 white adolescents in the Midwest, this research applies a social structure and personality perspective to examine variation in self-esteem and mastery trajectories by gender and SES across the high school years. Analyses reveal that high SES adolescents experience significantly steeper gains in self-esteem and mastery compared to low SES adolescents, resulting in the reversal of SES differences in self-esteem and the emergence of significant SES differences in mastery. Pre-existing gender differences in self-esteem narrow between the 9th and 12th grade because self-esteem increases at a faster rate among girls than boys during high school. These SES and gender differences in self-concept growth are explained by changes in parent-adolescent relationship quality and stress exposure. Specifically, boys and adolescents with lower SES backgrounds experienced steeper declines in parent-adolescent relationship quality and steeper gains in chronic work strain compared to girls and low SES adolescents, respectively.

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Adolescent boys' friendships and peer group culture

Cited by 42 publications

References 18 publications

The Role of Gender and Friends’ Gender on Peer Socialization of Adolescent Drinking: A Prospective Multilevel Social Network Analysis

The Role of Gender and Friends’ Gender on Peer Socialization of Adolescent Drinking: A Prospective Multilevel Social Network Analysis

The Embeddedness of Adolescent Friendship Nominations: The Formation of Social Capital in Emergent Network Structures

Self-esteem and mastery trajectories in high school by social class and gender

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