Adolescents' externalizing behaviors and antisocial text messaging across the broader peer network: Implications for socialization and selection effects.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents' peer networks provide an important context that can contribute to increases in antisocial behavior. By a process called deviancy training, peers can both model and reinforce these behaviors, thereby conveying group norms about the acceptability of such behaviors. This research examined the relationship between the proportion of adolescents' peers who exchanged antisocial text messages and externalizing behaviors during high school. In Study 1, parent-, teacher-, and self-reports of rule-breaking and aggression were collected for a sample of adolescents (n = 167, 80 girls; 22.2% Black, 51.5% Caucasian, 18.7% Hispanic) during the summers before and after 9th grade. Total text frequency, frequency of antisocial texts, and the proportion of the peer network who exchanged antisocia

SUBMITTER: Ehrenreich SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10704609 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature