Gender, Friendship Networks, and Delinquency: A Dynamic Network Approach.

ABSTRACT: Researchers have examined selection and influence processes in shaping delinquency similarity among friends, but little is known about the role of gender in moderating these relationships. Our objective is to examine differences between adolescent boys and girls regarding delinquency-based selection and influence processes. Using longitudinal network data from adolescents attending two large schools in AddHealth (N = 1,857) and stochastic actor-oriented models, we evaluate whether girls are influenced to a greater degree by friends' violence or delinquency than boys (influence hypothesis) and whether girls are more likely to select friends based on violent or delinquent behavior than boys (selection hypothesis). The results indicate that girls are more likely than boys to be influen

SUBMITTER: Haynie DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4469075 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature