Longitudinal changes in the value and influence of parent and peer attitudes about externalizing behaviors across adolescence.

ABSTRACT: 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 adole

SUBMITTER: Do KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12239931 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature