Parental responsiveness and adolescent susceptibility to peer influence: A cross-cultural investigation

Yang, Zhiyong; Laroche, Michel

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2010.11.021

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“…The collectivist orientation of Chinese societies is attributed to the influence of Confucianism, with its emphasis on respect for social harmony and protection of the interests of one's in-group (Shafer et al 2007;Su et al 2003;Whitcomb et al 1998). Chinese parents, with high power distance, are more protective of their children, encourage them to respect authority and rules, and obey laws (Tang 1990;Yang and Laroche 2011). These cultural differences echo prior research regarding differences in parental socialization between individualistic and collectivist cultures.…”

Section: Parental Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…French teens view sharing as egoistic rather than altruistic, and self-oriented rather than other-oriented behavior. French parents encourage adolescents to make independent decisions and (Yang and Laroche 2011). To achieve autonomy from their parents, French adolescents progressively distance themselves from their parents and increasingly rely on their peers.…”

Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does Bad Company Corrupt Good Morals? Social Bonding and Academic Cheating among French and Chinese Teens

Gentina

Tang

2015

J Bus Ethics

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A well-known common wisdom asserts that strong social bonds undermine delinquency. However, there is little empirical evidence to substantiate this assertion regarding adolescence academic cheating across cultures. In this study, we adopt social bonding theory and develop a theoretical model involving four social bonds (parental attachment, academic commitment, peer involvement, and moral values) and adolescence self-reported academic cheating behavior and cheating perception. Based on 913 adolescents (average age = 15.88) in France (n = 429) and China (n = 484), we show that parental attachment, academic commitment, and moral values curb academic cheating; counterintuitively, peer involvement contributes to cheating. We test our theoretical model across culture and gender, separately, using multi-group analyses. For French teens, peer involvement encourages and moral values undermine cheating; for Chinese adolescents, all four social bonds contribute to cheating, similar to the whole sample. For girls, parental attachment deters, but peer involvement enhances cheating. For boys, parental attachment is the only social bond that does not affect cheating. We treat social integration (popularity) as a mediator of the relationship between peer involvement and social bonds that construct, in turn, is related to cheating and ask: Considering popularity, who are likely to cheat? Our answers provide an interesting paradox: Popularity matters, yet popular French girls and unpopular Chinese boys are likely to cheat. Social sharing is a positive pro-social behavior in consumer behavior. However, academic cheating and rule breaking, reflecting self-serving altruism and the red sneakers effect, at a very young age may have the potential to grow into the Enron Effect later in their lives as executives in organizations. We shed new lights on both the bright and dark sides of social bonds on cheating, demonstrate bad company corrupts good morals, differently, across culture and gender, and provide practical implications to social bonding, business ethics, and cheating.

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Section: Parental Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 57%

Section: Theoretical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Bad Company Corrupt Good Morals? Social Bonding and Academic Cheating among French and Chinese Teens

Gentina

Tang

2015

J Bus Ethics

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“…Similar results were reported by Szeto et al (2009), who compared Canadians and Japanese, and found that the former have significantly higher scores on the Rosenberg selfesteem scale than the latter. Additionally, Yang and Laroche (2010) argued that because Canadian adolescents are armed with a higher level of self-esteem, they are less susceptible to peer influence than their Chinese counterparts.…”

Section: The Social Identity Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescent girls from a modern conservative culture: The impact of their social identity on their perception of brand symbolism

Souiden

M’Saad

2011

Psychology and Marketing

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This paper examines the relationship between adolescent girls' selfesteem, self-monitoring, and social groups (i.e., susceptibility to peer influence and group identification/differentiation) on one hand, and their perception of brand symbolism on the other. There is particular interest accorded to adolescent girls living in a transitional society. A single model is proposed to test the hypothesized relationships using structural equation modeling. The research findings reveal the existence of two categories of adolescents in a transitional society: modern and conservative. The former's perception of brand symbolism is found to be significantly influenced by their self-esteem. The latter's, however, is affected by their self-monitoring. Additionally, self-monitoring has an indirect impact on both conservative and modern teenage girls' perception of brand symbolism via their susceptibility to peer influence and group identification. This latter was the only social group factor to have a direct effect on both groups' perception of brand symbolism.

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“…Adolescents increasingly recognize themselves as distinct entities, behave independently, and individuate themselves from others (Gentina and Chandon 2013;Nuttall and Tinson 2008;Yang and Laroche 2011). This need for individuation involves asserting differentness and expressing uniqueness; thus, we use consumer need for uniqueness (CNFU) (Tian et al 2001) to operationalize this need.…”

Section: Need For Individuation and Ep/rbmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is a time of rapid development, emerging independence from parents, and a growing reliance on peer support (Goodrich and Mangleburg 2010;Mangleburg et al 2004;Yang and Laroche 2011). Becoming a member of a peer group and defending one's social position within these groups represent major developmental milestones in adolescence (Steinberg and Morris 2001).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethics During Adolescence: A Social Networks Perspective

2015

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Marketing research on adolescents' ethical predispositions (EP) and risky behaviors (RB) has focused primarily on individual difference variables. The present study, in contrast, examines the social network positions that an adolescent occupies within a group. A survey of 984 adolescents demonstrates that EP and RB stem from a balance between assimilation (i.e., centralities within the peer network) and individuation (i.e., need for uniqueness). In particular, we show that adolescents with close firstdegree relationships within a specific peer group (measured by high degree centrality) and/or high need for uniqueness have lower EP and engage in more RB, while adolescents that are more central to the entire network (measured by high closeness centrality) have higher EP. The theoretic and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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Parental responsiveness and adolescent susceptibility to peer influence: A cross-cultural investigation

Cited by 68 publications

References 55 publications

Does Bad Company Corrupt Good Morals? Social Bonding and Academic Cheating among French and Chinese Teens

Does Bad Company Corrupt Good Morals? Social Bonding and Academic Cheating among French and Chinese Teens

Adolescent girls from a modern conservative culture: The impact of their social identity on their perception of brand symbolism

Ethics During Adolescence: A Social Networks Perspective

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