Peer Relationships in Adolescence

Brown, B. Bradford; Larson, James H.

doi:10.1002/9780470479193.adlpsy002004

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“…Conforming to classmates' smoking and drinking is likely to enhance one's social standing in the classroom because these behaviors have a high reputational salience (i.e., importance for determining one's social reputation; Brown & Larson, 2009;Prinstein & Dodge, 2008).…”

Section: Additive Composition Effectsmentioning

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Adolescent Substance Use, Aggressive Behaviors, and Peer Context Behavioral Norms

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The goal of this study was to examine behavioral norm effects in 2 peer contexts (classroom, school) on adolescent substance use (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis) and aggressive behaviors (bullying, physical fighting). Participants were 5,642 adolescents (M age 5 14.29 years, SD 5 1.26; 49% boys). There were 3 hypotheses. First, behavioral norms in both contexts affect individual behavior. Second, classroom norms have stronger effects on individual behavior than school norms. Third, classroom and school norms interact and exacerbate each other's influence. Results indicated that classroom norms had stronger effects than school norms on individual tobacco and alcohol use. Furthermore, school norms had equal or stronger effects than classroom norms on the 2 indicators of aggressive behaviors. There was no evidence for an interaction between classroom and school norms for any dependent variable. This study demonstrates that the complexity of multiple (nested) peer contexts should be considered to fully understand peer influence processes.

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Adolescent Substance Use, Aggressive Behaviors, and Peer Context Behavioral Norms

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“…With the increase in electronic media communication (EMC; e.g., texting, instant messaging) among adolescents (Valkenburg and Peter 2010), the contexts important for adolescents' interactions with peers have expanded from the physical (offline) to the virtual (online) world (Brechwald and Prinstein 2011;Brown and Larson 2009). Adolescents use EMC frequently-complementary to or substituting for offline interactions-to communicate and to develop and maintain close relationships with their peers (Lenhart 2012;Lenhart and Madden 2007).…”

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Frequent electronic media communication with friends is associated with higher adolescent substance use

Gommans

Stevens

Finne

et al. 2014

Int J Public Health

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“…The homophilizing effects of gender and SES have been noted in previous research, as adolescents are generally more likely to select friends who are similar on these characteristics (Brown & Larson, 2009;Schaefer et al, 2011). In addition, adolescents with larger friendship networks are expected to have more opportunities to establish cross-race friendships than adolescents with smaller friendship networks (Simpkins et al, 2013).…”

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The salience of sport in cross-race friendship selection

Jones

Bunds

Carlton

et al. 2016

JAS

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In response to growing racial concerns, stakeholders have called for programs that facilitate positive cross-race interactions. Adolescence has been targeted as the most effective life stage to initiate programs promoting relationships. Since schools are one of the primary social influences on adolescent development, they have been emphasized as a particularly important setting for promoting intergroup contact. Sport plays an important role in the experiences of students, and contributes to intergroup relations within a school. The purpose of this study is to examine the unique effect of sport participation on cross-race friendship selection. Using data from Wave I of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), mixed-effects regression models and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to assess the effects of sport participation on friendship heterogeneity. Overall, participation in sport activities did not significantly influence the racial heterogeneity of adolescent’s friendship networks.

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Peer Relationships in Adolescence

Cited by 836 publications

References 94 publications

Adolescent Substance Use, Aggressive Behaviors, and Peer Context Behavioral Norms

Adolescent Substance Use, Aggressive Behaviors, and Peer Context Behavioral Norms

Frequent electronic media communication with friends is associated with higher adolescent substance use

The salience of sport in cross-race friendship selection

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