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Qin, Xingna; Laninga-Wijnen, Lydia; Steglich, Christian; Zhang, Yunyun; Ren, Ping; Veenstra, René – Child Development, 2023
This study examined whether having vulnerable friends helps or hurts victimized and depressed (i.e., vulnerable) adolescents and whether this depends on classroom supportive norms. Students (n = 1461, 46.7% girls, 93.4% Han nationality) were surveyed four times from seventh and eighth grade (M[subscript age] = 13 years) in 2015 and 2016 in Central…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 7, Grade 8, At Risk Students
Gremmen, Mariola C.; Berger, Christian; Ryan, Allison M.; Steglich, Christian E. G.; Veenstra, René; Dijkstra, Jan K. – Child Development, 2019
This study examined to what extent adolescents' and their friends' risk behaviors (i.e., delinquency and alcohol use) hinder or promote their academic achievement (grade point average [GPA]), and vice versa. Longitudinal data were used (N = 1,219 seventh- to ninth-grade adolescents; M[subscript age] = 13.69). Results showed that risk behaviors…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior, Risk, Delinquency
Fujimoto, Kayo; Unger, Jennifer B.; Valente, Thomas W. – Child Development, 2012
Using a network analytic framework, this study introduces a new method to measure peer influence based on adolescents' affiliations or 2-mode social network data. Exposure based on affiliations is referred to as the "affiliation exposure model." This study demonstrates the methodology using data on young adolescent smoking being influenced by…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Team Sports, Smoking, Early Adolescents
Rivas-Drake, Deborah; Saleem, Muniba; Schaefer, David R.; Medina, Michael; Jagers, Robert – Child Development, 2019
This study offers new insights into the power of peer networks for shaping intergroup relations in a diverse school. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of sixth-eighth graders (N = 524; M[subscript ageT1] = 11.87; 48% girls; 9% Asian American/Pacific Islander, 28% African American, 13% Latino, 1% Native American, 31% White, 5% Other, and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Grade 6, Intergroup Relations, Peer Relationship