School transitions, peer processes, and delinquency: A social network approach to turning points in adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examine how normative school transitions (e.g., moves from elementary to middle school) shape adolescents' experiences with three network processes that inform delinquency: delinquent popularity, delinquent sociability, and friend selection on shared delinquency participation.

Methods

By applying stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOMs) to a sample of panel data on 13,752 students from 26 school districts in the PROSPER study, we compare outcomes for students who change schools between 6th and 7th grade to those who remain in the same building.

Results

We find that adolescents who transition schools between these grades have significantly different experiences with delinquency-related network processes when compared to their peers who do not make this ch

SUBMITTER: McMillan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12323684 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature