ERIC Number: EJ1435268
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
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Longitudinal Changes in the Value and Influence of Parent and Peer Attitudes about Externalizing Behaviors across Adolescence
Kathy T. Do; Eva H. Telzer
Developmental Psychology, v60 n8 p1500-1510 2024
This preregistered, longitudinal study examined how much adolescents value and integrate their parents' and peers' attitudes into their own attitudes from early to middle adolescence. Across three waves, participants (N = 172, 91 female, 11-16 years across three waves; 439 data points) decided whether to pay money to learn their parents' or peers' attitudes about externalizing behaviors. Multivariate growth models revealed that adolescents were consistently willing to pay money over time to learn their parents' and peers' attitudes. The value of learning peers'--but not parents'--attitudes predicted changes in personal attitudes during adolescence, and this did not change across age. Moreover, the effect of others' attitude value on social influence weakened from early to middle adolescence, such that early adolescents who highly valued learning the attitudes of others (i.e., paid more) tended to shift their own attitudes more toward those endorsing positive influence, regardless of the source. In contrast, early adolescents who valued learning others' attitudes less were less susceptible to positive social influence. Importantly, this effect went away in middle adolescence. Although adolescents are highly motivated to learn their parents' and peers' attitudes about externalizing behaviors, how much those attitudes inform their personal attitudes depends on the source of input and the age of adolescents.
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Attitudes, Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Predictor Variables, Attitude Change, Social Influences, Attitudes, Peer Influence, Parent Influence
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH) (DHHS); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH); National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS); National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Graduate Education (DGE)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: R01DA039923; T32HD07376; 1539651; 1650116
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