Deviant Peer Factors During Early Adolescence: Cause or Consequence of Physical Aggression?

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• Alternative Title:
  Child Dev
• Personal Author:
  Thompson, Erin L. ; Mehari, Krista R. ; Farrell, Albert D.
• Description:
  This study investigated reciprocal relations between adolescents' physical aggression and their perceptions of peers' deviant behaviors and attitudes. Analyses were conducted on four waves of data from 2,290 adolescents (ages 10-16) from three urban middle schools. Autoregression models revealed reciprocal relations between peer factors (i.e., friends' problem behavior, peer pressure for fighting, friends' support for fighting) and adolescents' reporting of their aggressive behavior. Bidirectional relations were also found between peer pressure for fighting and adolescents' frequency of physical aggression based on teacher ratings. Findings were consistent across sex, grade, and time. Findings suggest that multiple dimensions of peers' behaviors uniquely play a role in the development of adolescents' aggression and have important implications for interventions to reduce problem behaviors.
• Subjects:
  Article
• Source:
  Child Dev.
• Pubmed ID:
  30932183
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6773537
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  2014-CK-BX-0009/National Institute of Justice/ ; 5U01CE001956/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ ; 1R01HD089994/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; R01 HD089994/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; U01 CE001956/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4897f032df82f4f0f562a004077ca20781f3096a0c09e2dfea4c76f885a3aebb
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/94464/cdc_94464_DS1.pdf
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