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Title: Dyadic computer programming instruction for middle school students: friendship promotes learning.
Creator: Hartl, Amy C., DeLay, Dawn, Denner, Jill, Werner, Linda, Laursen, Brett, Richmond, Ashley D., Dirghangi, Shrija R., Hiatt, Cody, Dickson, Daniel J., Bortman, Gilly, Shawcross, Lauren, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2013-04-12
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361309
Subject Headings: Friendship, Learning
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Title: CONFORMITY TO ACADEMIC AND BEHAVIORAL NORMS AS A FUNCTION OF FRIENDSHIP PARTICIPATION.
Creator: Faur, Sharon, Brett Laursen, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Psychology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Abstract/Description: During the transition into adolescence, peer relations become increasingly important and peer influence grows, commensurate with changes in the child’s social world. Previous findings indicate that youth with relatively fewer reciprocated friendships are particularly susceptible to influence in dyadic settings, raising the possibility that friendedness may also heighten susceptibility to group influence. The current study examined the hypothesis that a lack of reciprocated friendships...
Show moreDuring the transition into adolescence, peer relations become increasingly important and peer influence grows, commensurate with changes in the child’s social world. Previous findings indicate that youth with relatively fewer reciprocated friendships are particularly susceptible to influence in dyadic settings, raising the possibility that friendedness may also heighten susceptibility to group influence. The current study examined the hypothesis that a lack of reciprocated friendships increases susceptibility to academic and behavioral peer group norms because youth with few friends are eager to increase affiliative opportunities and minimize the risk of being perceived as social misfits. Participants were 419 (204 girls, 215 boys) middle school (5th-7th; M=12.01 years old) Lithuanian students in 23 classes. Students identified up to five friends from a class roster. Adolescents were classified into two groups based on friendedness: few (i.e., 0-1; n=169) over several (i.e., 2 or more; n=250) reciprocated friendships. Self-reports of conduct problems, school burnout, and school grades were collected twice during an academic year (M=12.3 weeks apart). Academic achievement, disruptiveness, physical aggression, and popularity were assessed through peer nominations. Status-based norms were calculated as within-classroom correlations between peer reports of popularity and each target outcome. Descriptive norms (means and medians) were calculated as classroom averages and medians of each target outcome. Multilevel models examined whether friendedness moderated associations between norms (status-based and descriptive) and changes in target outcomes.
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Date Issued: 2024
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014370
Subject Headings: Conformity, Social influence, Friendship
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Title: The friends they have and the friends they want: desired friendship across the transition into adolescence.
Creator: Bortman, Gilly, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Previous studies of desired friendship have assessed desired friends with unilateral nominations (when one child chooses another child as a friend, but that friend nomination is not reciprocated). This calls into question the validity of findings suggesting that children want to be friends with others who differ from themselves, but befriend similar others by default (Sijtsema, Lindenberg, & Veenstra, 2010). The current study concerns desired friendships among 195 girls and 147 boys in Grades...
Show morePrevious studies of desired friendship have assessed desired friends with unilateral nominations (when one child chooses another child as a friend, but that friend nomination is not reciprocated). This calls into question the validity of findings suggesting that children want to be friends with others who differ from themselves, but befriend similar others by default (Sijtsema, Lindenberg, & Veenstra, 2010). The current study concerns desired friendships among 195 girls and 147 boys in Grades 4 through 6. Two hypotheses were tested. The first hypothesis was that children will not choose the same unilateral and desired friends. The second hypothesis was that children will be more similar to their reciprocal friends than to their unilateral and desired friends. Questionnaires measured desired friendship, friendship, and child characteristics. Both hypotheses were supported. However, there were group-level differences. The importance of using desired friend nominations to measure desired friends is discussed.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004180, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004180
Subject Headings: Friendship -- Social aspects, Friendship in adolescence, Friendship in children, Interpersonal relations
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Title: Who influences whom in adolescent romantic relationship?.
Creator: Richmond, Ashley D., Laursen, Brett, Furman, Wyndol, DeLay, Dawn, Hafen, Christopher A., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164768
Subject Headings: Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Friendship in adolescence, Intimacy (Psychology)
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Title: The background of the 7th World Youth Festival, Vienna, Austria, July 26-August 4, 1959; report.
Creator: Independent Research Service, N.Y., N.Y.
Date Issued: 1959
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358336
Subject Headings: World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship.
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Title: Likeability and Popularity as Sources of Influence within Primary School Friendships.
Creator: Valdes, Olivia M., Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: It is well documented that friends influence adaptive behaviors (Brechwald & Prinstein, 2011). However, it remains unclear how influence manifests itself. The current study investigated the role of likeability and popularity in determining the relative influence that a child exercises on his or her friend’s prosocial behavior and academic achievement in a sample of elementary schooled children (N=679). The results suggest that more liked friends have more influence over their less liked...
Show moreIt is well documented that friends influence adaptive behaviors (Brechwald & Prinstein, 2011). However, it remains unclear how influence manifests itself. The current study investigated the role of likeability and popularity in determining the relative influence that a child exercises on his or her friend’s prosocial behavior and academic achievement in a sample of elementary schooled children (N=679). The results suggest that more liked friends have more influence over their less liked friends’ prosocial behavior and academic achievement. Both more- and less-popular friends influenced each other’s academic achievement. Residualized analyses, however, which take into account the shared overlap between likeability and popularity, suggest that the more-liked friend continued to influence the prosocial behavior and academic achievement of the less-liked friend, whereas more-popular children had no influence over their less-popular counterparts.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013024
Subject Headings: Friendship in children, Popularity, Social influence, School children
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Title: Perceptions of conflict and the qualities of early adolescent friendships: Dyadic measures of associations.
Creator: Burk, William Jay, Florida Atlantic University, Laursen, Brett
Abstract/Description: This study examined associations between friends, perceptions of conflict and friendship qualities. Early adolescent participants and their same-sex friends (N = 199 dyads) separately completed measures describing actual disagreements, friendship positivity, and negativity. Similar patterns of associations emerged for participant and friend reports of conflict and relationship qualities. Actor and partner associations were estimated with two statistical methods, the APIM (Kashy & Kenny, 2000)...
Show moreThis study examined associations between friends, perceptions of conflict and friendship qualities. Early adolescent participants and their same-sex friends (N = 199 dyads) separately completed measures describing actual disagreements, friendship positivity, and negativity. Similar patterns of associations emerged for participant and friend reports of conflict and relationship qualities. Actor and partner associations were estimated with two statistical methods, the APIM (Kashy & Kenny, 2000) and the IDM (Griffin & Gonzalez, 1995). Actor associations suggested perceptions of conflict were linked to self-perceptions of friendship negativity and positivity. Partner associations suggested perceptions of conflict were linked to partner perceptions of friendship negativity, but not to partner perceptions of friendship positivity.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13095
Subject Headings: Friendship in adolescence, Interpersonal conflict, Social influence, Adolescent psychology
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Title: Best friend influence over adolescent problem behaviors: the role of perceived friendship quality.
Creator: Hiatt, Cody, Laursen, Brett, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Close friends have been shown to influence adolescent problem behaviors, especially alcohol abuse (Urberg, Degirmencioglu, and Pilgrim, 1997). The degree of influence, however varies as a function of individual characteristics such as peer acceptance (Laursen, Hafen, Kerr, and Stattin, 2012) and age (Popp et al., 2008). The present study examines whether differences in influence extend to perceptions of friendship quality. Using a sample of 764 Swedish adolescents involved in stable samesex...
Show moreClose friends have been shown to influence adolescent problem behaviors, especially alcohol abuse (Urberg, Degirmencioglu, and Pilgrim, 1997). The degree of influence, however varies as a function of individual characteristics such as peer acceptance (Laursen, Hafen, Kerr, and Stattin, 2012) and age (Popp et al., 2008). The present study examines whether differences in influence extend to perceptions of friendship quality. Using a sample of 764 Swedish adolescents involved in stable samesex reciprocal best friend relationships that lasted at least one year, analyses used distinguishable dyad actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) analyses (Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) to track influence over two years of the friendship. More satisfied friends were more influential than less satisfied friends on intoxication frequency and truancy. The findings of this study indicate that influence accompanies perceptions of quality. Those with higher perceptions of quality exhibit more influence on friends who perceive relatively lower quality.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004025
Subject Headings: Adolescent psychology, Friendship in adolescence, Interpersonal relationships in adolescence, Peer pressure in adolescence, Web services -- Management
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Title: Adolescent relationships and their contributions to social and academic competence.
Creator: Jones-Hudson, Vonda Dionne, Florida Atlantic University, Laursen, Brett, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: School success is associated with parent- and peer-relationships. To study the connection between these alliances and school success, 30 African-American and 30 European-American 6th graders were given the Relationship Closeness Inventory, Network of Relationships Inventory, Self-Perception Profile, Revised Class Play, and Youth Self-Report. A parent and best friend also completed surveys. Results show parent and peer support relates to the social competence of youth. Father support is...
Show moreSchool success is associated with parent- and peer-relationships. To study the connection between these alliances and school success, 30 African-American and 30 European-American 6th graders were given the Relationship Closeness Inventory, Network of Relationships Inventory, Self-Perception Profile, Revised Class Play, and Youth Self-Report. A parent and best friend also completed surveys. Results show parent and peer support relates to the social competence of youth. Father support is associated with female aggressive-disruptive behavior, and best friend support is associated with sensitive-isolated behavior in boys. African-American parents do more social events with their children than European-American parents do with their children. European-Americans and males have higher socioeconomic status than African-Americans and females.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15436
Subject Headings: Child development, Parent and child, Social interaction in adolescence, Academic achievement, Friendship
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Title: Age related changes in relationship closeness, reciprocity, and authority during adolescence.
Creator: Wilder, David Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Laursen, Brett
Abstract/Description: One hundred and ninety-four 12 to 20 year old adolescents were administered two self-report questionnaires in order to examine interrelations and age related changes in relationship closeness, reciprocity, and authority with parents, peers, and romantic partners. It was hypothesized that, with age, adolescent's relations with parents would become less close and more mutual, while adolescent relations with peers and romantic partners would become closer with age. It was also hypothesized that...
Show moreOne hundred and ninety-four 12 to 20 year old adolescents were administered two self-report questionnaires in order to examine interrelations and age related changes in relationship closeness, reciprocity, and authority with parents, peers, and romantic partners. It was hypothesized that, with age, adolescent's relations with parents would become less close and more mutual, while adolescent relations with peers and romantic partners would become closer with age. It was also hypothesized that subjects who have closer relationships with romantic partners would also have more mutual relationships with romantic partners. Results indicated that adolescents relations with parents became closer, but not more mutual, with age. Adolescent's relations with peers did not become closer with age, while adolescents relations with romantic partners became closer with age. In the romantic partner relationship, closer relationships were more mutual ones.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15118
Subject Headings: Teenagers--Family relationships, Parent and teenager, Friendship in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence
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Title: Sources of Popularity: Aggressive and Prosocial Strategists and the Adolescents Who Affiliate With Them.
Creator: Hiatt, Cody, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Popular children are visible and influential in an adolescent peer group (LaFontana & Cillessen, 2002). Previous studies have demonstrated that there are two types of popular children: aggressive-popular and prosocial-popular (Cillessen & Rose, 2005). The current study was designed to determine that, while both types are well liked and accepted, they draw favor from different sources of affiliation. The Study uses a sample of 450 adolescents (36.2% boys and 63.1% girls) from one high school...
Show morePopular children are visible and influential in an adolescent peer group (LaFontana & Cillessen, 2002). Previous studies have demonstrated that there are two types of popular children: aggressive-popular and prosocial-popular (Cillessen & Rose, 2005). The current study was designed to determine that, while both types are well liked and accepted, they draw favor from different sources of affiliation. The Study uses a sample of 450 adolescents (36.2% boys and 63.1% girls) from one high school in Lithuania. Hierarchical generalized logistic linear models (HGLLM) were conducted to determine if there was differential acceptance of aggressive-popular and prosocialpopular adolescents. Also, models determined if peers exhausted with school, attached to school, connected to peers and anxious/withdrawn would have differential association with aggressive-popular and prosocial-popular adolescents. Results answered 3 questions. First, HGLLM models were used to replicate the previous finding that popular adolescents have more affiliations than other peers. Second, results determined that popular, popular-aggressive, and popular-prosocial adolescents were all more likely to receive affiliation nominations from peers. Third, results determined that aggressive-popular adolescents were chosen as affiliates by peers exhausted with school, and less likely to be chosen by peers attached to school, connected to friends and withdrawn. Prosocial-popular adolescents were chose as affiliates by peers attached to school and connected with friends. These findings indicate that aggressivepopular adolescents draw favor from crowds that are more oriented toward youth culture, while prosocial-popular draw favor from crowds that are more oriented toward adult culture (Brown, 1990) The findings first extend previous research by demonstrating that popular adolescents, of all types, are likely to receive affiliation nominations. Furthermore, prosocial-popular and aggressive-popular adolescents have more acceptance and affiliations than others, but this attraction comes from different sources. Previous studies have shown that popular children are well liked by some but not by others (Parkhurst & Hopmeyer, 1998). Taken with findings demonstrating that popular children strategically use cooperation or manipulation to influence others (Cillessen & Rose, 2005), the current study extends knowledge about the peer groups where cooperation or manipulation strategies may be most effective. Crowds that are school oriented and have positive peer relations follow prosocial-popular peers while crowds that are fed up with school follow aggressive-popular peers.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004604, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004604
Subject Headings: Adolescent psychology., Interpersonal relationships in adolescence., Friendship in adolescence., Peer pressure in adolescence.
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Title: Longitudinal Change in Friendship Quality and Adolescent.
Creator: Marion, Donna, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: This study of 91 dyads investigated concurrent and prospective bidirectional associations between friendship quality and psychosocial adjustment in young adolescents, using multiple-group structural equation modeling to detect gender differences. Friend reports ofboth positive (social support) and negative features of friendship, self-reports of two adjustment variables (internalizing problems and externalizing problems), and self-reports of three dimensions of self-esteem (global selfworth,...
Show moreThis study of 91 dyads investigated concurrent and prospective bidirectional associations between friendship quality and psychosocial adjustment in young adolescents, using multiple-group structural equation modeling to detect gender differences. Friend reports ofboth positive (social support) and negative features of friendship, self-reports of two adjustment variables (internalizing problems and externalizing problems), and self-reports of three dimensions of self-esteem (global selfworth, behavioral conduct esteem, and close friendship esteem) were examined at two time periods approximately one year apart. Principal findings were that grade 6 friendship negativity was inversely associated with grade 7 self-esteem, and positively associated with grade 7 internalizing problems and externalizing problems, in the boys' model but not girls' model. Chi-square difference testing confirmed a significant difference between these paths in the girls' model and these paths in the boys' model.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000795
Subject Headings: Friendship in adolescence, Self-esteem in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Adjustment (Psychology) in adolescence
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Title: PARENTING AND PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP QUALITY AS PREDICTORS OF FRIENDSHIP DISSOLUTION IN LATE CHILDHOOD AND EARLY ADOLESCENCE.
Creator: Yoho, Michael, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Psychology, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Abstract/Description: Friendships convey developmental advantages. Adolescents without friends suffer from a host of difficulties. Much more is known about which friendships are likely to be stable over time, than about maternal contributions to friendship stability. To this end, the current study examines characteristics of mother-child relationship quality (i.e., child reported social support, negativity and relationship importance) and maternal parenting practices (i.e., child-reported behavioral control and...
Show moreFriendships convey developmental advantages. Adolescents without friends suffer from a host of difficulties. Much more is known about which friendships are likely to be stable over time, than about maternal contributions to friendship stability. To this end, the current study examines characteristics of mother-child relationship quality (i.e., child reported social support, negativity and relationship importance) and maternal parenting practices (i.e., child-reported behavioral control and psychological control) that predict the dissolution of children’s friendships in a sample of primary school (ages 10 to 11) and middle school (ages 11 to 14) students attending seven public schools in Lithuania. A total of 574 participants (290 female, 284 male) completed identical surveys at six time points across two consecutive school years. Peer nominations provided an index of peer status (i.e., acceptance or liking and rejection or disliking), which were also included as predictors in order to control the contribution of peer status. Friendships were defined as dyads in which both partners nominated each other as friends. Dissolved Friendships were defined as dyads that were reciprocated at Time 1 but one or both partners failed to nominate the other as a friend as a subsequent time point. Discrete time survival analyses were conducted to predict friendship dissolution from maternal parenting practices variables, mother-child relationship quality variables, peer status variables, and demographic variables (sex, dyad sex, nutrition, household structure, relationship rank). Two sets of analyses were conducted. The individual model explored the degree to which individual scores on each variable predicted friendship dissolution. The dyadic model the degree to which dyadic differences (i.e., the absolute difference between friend scores) on each variable predicted friendship dissolution.
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Date Issued: 2024
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014384
Subject Headings: Parent-child relationship, Friendship, Mother and child, Adolescents, Developmental psychology
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Title: A Longitudinal Latent Profile Analysis of Adolescent Popularity: A Test of the Bistrategic Hypothesis.
Creator: Hartl, Amy C., Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: As children enter adolescence, social status within the peer hierarchy gains importance. Variable-oriented research has linked adolescent popularity with both positive and negative adjustment outcomes. Popularity may be better understood with reference to types or subgroups of similar individuals, identified through person-oriented approaches. Resource Control Theory (RCT: Hawley, 1999) posits three distinct types of popular adolescents: coercive, prosocial, and bistrategic. The existence and...
Show moreAs children enter adolescence, social status within the peer hierarchy gains importance. Variable-oriented research has linked adolescent popularity with both positive and negative adjustment outcomes. Popularity may be better understood with reference to types or subgroups of similar individuals, identified through person-oriented approaches. Resource Control Theory (RCT: Hawley, 1999) posits three distinct types of popular adolescents: coercive, prosocial, and bistrategic. The existence and adjustment correlates of the prosocial and coercive groups have been well-established, but little evidence supports the existence of a bistrategic popular group of adolescents, and even less is known about their adjustment correlates. The present study aims to confirm the existence of the popularity groups hypothesized by RCT and to identify group differences in social adjustment and problem behaviors. A sample of 568 adolescents (n = 288 girls, 280 boys; M age = 12.50) completed peer nomination procedures and self-report questionnaires in the Fall and Spring of the 7th and 8th grades. Longitudinal latent profile analyses classified adolescents into profile groups on the basis of initial physical aggression, relational aggression, and prosocial behavior, and four time points of popularity spanning the 7th and 8th grades. Repeated measures ANOVAs examined profile group differences in social adjustment (peer acceptance, peer rejection, physical victimization, relational victimization, and preference for solitude) and problem behaviors (disruptiveness and delinquency) across the 7th and 8th grades. Results indicate that adolescents fall into one of four distinct groups: aggressive popular, prosocial popular, bistrategic popular, and average. Bistrategic popular adolescents evinced positive social adjustment, exhibiting the highest levels of popularity and peer acceptance and the lowest levels of peer rejection, victimization, and preference for solitude. Despite their social skill advantages, bistrategic popular adolescents were also at risk for problem behaviors. Bistrategic popular adolescents scored above average on problem behaviors, including physical and relational aggression, disruptiveness, and delinquency. Bistrategic popular adolescents successfully navigate the social world in a manner that both offers hope for positive long-term adjustment and concern for the same.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004694, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004694
Subject Headings: Adolescent psychology, Cliques (Sociology), Friendship in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Peer pressure in adolescence, Self esteem in adolescence
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Title: Age-related differences in friend similarity of delinquent behavior.
Creator: Richmond, Ashley D., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: During a period of increased independence from parents, youth turn to peers for support, and consequently become more vulnerable to peer pressure (Steinberg & Silverberg, 1986). During middle adolescence, vulnerability to peer influence begins to decline (Steinberg & Monahan, 2007). Empirical research has documented this trend in vulnerability to peer pressure across adolescence, but less attention has been afforded to the age-related changes in similarity. To address this, age-related...
Show moreDuring a period of increased independence from parents, youth turn to peers for support, and consequently become more vulnerable to peer pressure (Steinberg & Silverberg, 1986). During middle adolescence, vulnerability to peer influence begins to decline (Steinberg & Monahan, 2007). Empirical research has documented this trend in vulnerability to peer pressure across adolescence, but less attention has been afforded to the age-related changes in similarity. To address this, age-related changes in peer similarity in delinquency across the adolescent years were examinded using intraclass correlations. Moderating variables, including gender, reciprocity, and closeness, and control variables, including friendship stability and romantic partner status, were examined. Results indicated an increase in friend similarity in delinquency from 5th to 7th grade and a decrease in similarity from 7th to 9th grade. Implications of this study are discussed in terms of contribution to the field and implementation of the findings.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3352828
Subject Headings: Juvenile delinquency, Social aspects, Criminal behavior, Social aspects, Interpersonal relationships in adolescence, Friendship in adolescence, Peer pressure in adolescence
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Title: A survival analysis of adolescent friendships: the downside of dissimilarity.
Creator: Hartl, Amy C., Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Adolescent friendships are critical for adjustment but are extremely unstable. Dyadic characteristics may put friendships at risk for dissolution, whereas individual characteristics may put individuals at risk for participating in unstable friendships. The present study examines whether dyadic or individual school-related characteristics predict rates of adolescent friendship dissolution. A sample of 410 adolescents (n=201 males, 209 females; M age=13.20 years) participated in 573...
Show moreAdolescent friendships are critical for adjustment but are extremely unstable. Dyadic characteristics may put friendships at risk for dissolution, whereas individual characteristics may put individuals at risk for participating in unstable friendships. The present study examines whether dyadic or individual school-related characteristics predict rates of adolescent friendship dissolution. A sample of 410 adolescents (n=201 males, 209 females; M age=13.20 years) participated in 573 reciprocated friendships originating in the 7th grade which were followed from 8th-12th grade. Discrete-time survival analyses evaluated grade 7 dyadic and individual characteristics (sex, age, ethnicity, number of friends, peer acceptance, peer rejection, leadership, and school competence) as predictors of the occurrence and timing of friendship dissolution. Dissimilarity in sex, peer acceptance, and school competence and similarity in leadership predicted higher rates of friendship dissolution; individual characteristics were not significant predictors. Adolescents seeking friendships with more skilled individuals risk suffering the downside of dissimilarity, namely dissolution.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004120, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004120
Subject Headings: Adolescent psychology, Emotions in adolescence, Friendship in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Self esteem in adolescence, Youth -- Social networks
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Title: Patterns of Stable Early Adolescent Friendships and Their Associations with Individual Adjustment.
Creator: Mooney, Karen Sara, Florida Atlantic University, Laursen, Brett, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Strong evidence links positive and negative features of adolescent friendship to adjustment outcomes. However, the majority of these studies adopt a variable-oriented approach, which can obscure differences between subgroups. This study used a person-oriented approach to examine the patterns of friendship quality and their association with adolescent adjustment outcomes. To this end , both members of 88 stable friendships reported on the quality of their relationship and target adolescents...
Show moreStrong evidence links positive and negative features of adolescent friendship to adjustment outcomes. However, the majority of these studies adopt a variable-oriented approach, which can obscure differences between subgroups. This study used a person-oriented approach to examine the patterns of friendship quality and their association with adolescent adjustment outcomes. To this end , both members of 88 stable friendships reported on the quality of their relationship and target adolescents reported on their adjustment (behavior problems, friendship competence, scholastic competence, behavioral conduct, global self-worth, and school grades) at both Grade 6 and Grade 7. K-means cluster analyses identified three distinct patterns in friendship quality at both Grade 6 and Grade 7: /ow positivity, high negativity, and high quality. These groups exhibited structural stability. The high negativity group and the high quality group both exhibited interindividual stability. Person-oriented analyses indicated adolescents in the high quality group tended to have the best adjustment outcomes, whereas adolescents in the high negativity group tended to have the worst adjustment outcomes. Additionally, person-oriented analyses indicated that adolescents whose friendships increased in quality also tended to report increased friendship competence. Adolescents whose friendships decreased in quality tended to report decreased global self-worth . Supplemental variable-oriented analyses generally complemented the findings of the person-oriented analyses. Overall, these findings suggest that many adolescents have enduring friendships that are less than ideal. Moreover, different low quality friendships have different associations with adjustment. These findings also suggest that friendships may not have pervasive influence on adjustment outcomes. Specifically, friendship quality appears to be strongly associated with behavior problems, friendship competence, and self-esteem.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000871
Subject Headings: Friendship in youth, Teenagers--Social networks, Self-esteem in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Adjustment (Psychology)
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Title: Disquiet chaos.
Creator: Penton, Yordanka, Schmitt, Kate, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This poetic thesis is an exploration of the darker side of relationships. There are two parts of this thesis and they are to be read independently of each other. Part one is concerned with the chaotic relationship structure between lovers, husbands and wives, and the unexpected anguish that results from living an inauthentic life. Part two of my thesis is a rumination of a past close friendship and the tragic death of that friend.
Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004398, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004398
Subject Headings: Death--Fiction, American essays, American poetry--21st century, Difference (Psychology) in literature, Man-woman relationships--Fiction, Friendship--Fiction
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Title: Patterns of influence on school engagement and the moderating effects of maternal affection.
Creator: Marion, Donna, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: This study investigated friend influence on school engagement in a sample of 160 stable same-sex friendship dyads (94 female dyads and 66 male dyads) from five senior high schools and four vocational schools in a small city in central Finland. Longitudinal data were collected during the first and second years of upper secondary school, approximately one year apart, and self-reports were available from both members of each friendship dyad. The framework of the Actor-Partner Interdependence...
Show moreThis study investigated friend influence on school engagement in a sample of 160 stable same-sex friendship dyads (94 female dyads and 66 male dyads) from five senior high schools and four vocational schools in a small city in central Finland. Longitudinal data were collected during the first and second years of upper secondary school, approximately one year apart, and self-reports were available from both members of each friendship dyad. The framework of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kenny, Kashy & Cook, 2006) was used to estimate friend influence on school engagement in a model that did not distinguish same-sex friends, in a direct-effects model that distinguished friends based on relative levels of school burnout, and in a multiple-group model for distinguishable friends that investigated perceptions of maternal affection as a moderator of friend influence. Results suggest that the higher burnout partner in a friendship dyad influenced a decline in the lower burnout partner's school engagement only when the lower burnout partner perceived low maternal affection. When the lower burnout partner perceived high maternal affection, there was no evidence of negative influence by a higher burnout partner. Patterns of influence did not vary as a function of sex or school track. The importance of distinguishing friends on a theoretically and statistically meaningful basis to learn who influences whom, and of investigating indirect effects models when studying friend influence is also discussed.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332721
Subject Headings: Friendship in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Peer pressure in adolescence, Attachment behavior in adolescence, Parent and teenager, Parenting, Psychological aspects
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Title: Aggression and prosocial behavior predict changes in perceptions of friendship quality in primary and middle school students.
Creator: Shawcross, Lauren, Laursen, Brett, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: This study examines whether aggression and prosocial behavior shape changes in perceptions of friendship quality within stable reciprocal best friend dyads. A longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used to investigate whether individual characteristics predict changes 6 to 12 weeks later in perceptions of relationship support and negativity. The sample included 76 same-sex dyads drawn from classrooms in grades 4 (M = 9.48 years) through 6 (M= 11.43 years) in two public schools...
Show moreThis study examines whether aggression and prosocial behavior shape changes in perceptions of friendship quality within stable reciprocal best friend dyads. A longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used to investigate whether individual characteristics predict changes 6 to 12 weeks later in perceptions of relationship support and negativity. The sample included 76 same-sex dyads drawn from classrooms in grades 4 (M = 9.48 years) through 6 (M= 11.43 years) in two public schools in the United States.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004408, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004408
Subject Headings: Friendship in adolescence, Friendship in children, Interaction analysis in education, Interpersonal relations in adolescence, Interpersonal relations in children, Social perceptions in adolescence, Social perceptions in children, Social psychology, Social skills -- Study and teaching (Elementary), Social skills -- Study and teaching (Middle school)
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