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Desire for Increased Autonomy and Adolescents' Perceptions of Peer Autonomy: "Everyone Else Can; Why Can't I?"
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Daddis, Christopher – Child Development, 2011
Two studies examined adolescents' personal autonomy beliefs and their perceptions of peer autonomy. Study 1 sampled 527 adolescents (M = 15.40 years) and found that adolescents desired increased autonomy most over personal and multifaceted issues and least over moral and conventional issues. Younger adolescents and girls desired increased autonomy…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Personal Autonomy, Peer Influence, Age Differences
Parents as Moderators of the Impact of School Norms and Peer Influences on Aggression in Middle School Students
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Farrell, Albert D.; Henry, David B.; Mays, Sally A.; Schoeny, Michael E. – Child Development, 2011
This study examined parenting variables as protective factors to reduce the influence of school and peer risk factors on adolescents' aggression. Five waves of data spanning 3 years were collected from 5,581 students at 37 schools who began the 6th grade in 2001 or 2002. Class-level and perceived school norms supporting aggression, delinquent peer…
Descriptors: Aggression, Parent Participation, Child Rearing, At Risk Persons
The Development of Gendered Interests and Personality Qualities from Middle Childhood through Adolescence: A Biosocial Analysis
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McHale, Susan M.; Kim, Ji-Yeon; Dotterer, Aryn M.; Crouter, Ann C.; Booth, Alan – Child Development, 2009
This study charted the development of gendered personality qualities and activity interests from age 7 to age 19 in 364 first- and second-born siblings from 185 White, middle/working-class families, assessed links between time in gendered social contexts (with mother, father, female peers, and male peers) and gender development, and tested whether…
Descriptors: Siblings, Mothers, Interests, Fathers
Peer Group Contexts of Girls' and Boys' Academic Experiences
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Crosnoe, Robert; Riegle-Crumb, Catherine; Field, Sam; Frank, Kenneth; Muller, Chandra – Child Development, 2008
Girls have caught up with boys in math course taking in high school but reasons for taking math still differ by gender. This study, therefore, investigated gender differences in the linkage between peer relations and math course taking by applying multilevel modeling to a nationally representative data set that includes peer networks and school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Peer Groups, Gender Differences, Peer Influence
Peer Selection and Socialization Effects on Adolescent Intercourse without a Condom and Attitudes about the Costs of Sex
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Henry, David B.; Schoeny, Michael E.; Deptula, Daneen P.; Slavick, John T. – Child Development, 2007
This study investigated peer selection and socialization effects on sexual behavior and attitudes using 1,350 15- to 18-year-old students participating in two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Regarding socialization effects, friends' intercourse without condoms predicted later individual intercourse without condoms…
Descriptors: Costs, Socialization, Adolescents, Sexuality
From Censure to Reinforcement: Developmental Changes in the Association between Aggression and Social Status
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Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Mayeux, Lara – Child Development, 2004
Developmental changes were examined in the associations among physical and relational aggression, and sociometric and perceived popularity based on peer nominations. Participating in the longitudinal study were 905 children (440 girls, 465 boys) from ages 10 to 14. Associations between the forms of status and between the forms of aggression…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Children, Adolescents, Social Status