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Peer reviewedJournal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1995
Discuses briefly how, by understanding the social distances that define and separate students' self-selected peer crowds in secondary schools, school staff can help students with peer pressures, develop their own identities, and succeed academically. (SR)
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Peer Groups, Peer Influence, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedRichards, Pamela – Social Problems, 1979
Analysis of self-report data from middle class adolescents shows that both peer relationships and elements of adult-child conflict affect the probability of vandalism. The strongest factors are peer-related, possibly because vandalism may be seen as a way of establishing positions within peer hierarchies. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Delinquency Causes, Middle Class
