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Richmond, Ashley D.; Laursen, Brett; Stattin, Håkan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined age-related changes in friend similarity on delinquency to determine whether deviant behavior homophily peaks during mid-adolescence. A community sample of 1,663 male and 1,826 female Swedish youth from Grade 5 (M = 11.21 years) to Grade 10 (M = 16.25 years) provided self-reports of delinquency. Friendships were identified from…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Adolescents, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Brown, Christia Spears – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Sexualized gender stereotypes (SGS) include the belief that girls should singularly prioritize their sexualized attractiveness for the attention and approval of boys. By elementary school, boys and girls perceive girls' sexualized attractiveness to be incompatible with intelligence and competence. In the current 2-year study, we examined whether…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Sexuality, Aesthetics, Grade 7
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Ribeiro, Olívia; Santos, António J.; Freitas, Miguel; Rosado, António; Rubin, Kenneth H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
The present study assesses the factor structure, psychometric adequacy, and invariance across sex and age of the Relational Provisions Loneliness Questionnaire (RPLQ). Discriminant validity with an external criterion was also tested. In a sample of Portuguese adolescents, from 7th to 9th grade (N = 817), Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Questionnaires
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Pabian, Sara; Vandebosch, Heidi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to test bidirectional relationships between (cyber)bullying and (a) bonding to school and (b) bonding to teachers. These relationships were examined while controlling for traditional and cyberbullying victimization, as well as gender and age. The sample consisted of 2,128 Belgian early adolescents, who participated in…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Student School Relationship
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Li, Yibing; Lynch, Alicia Doyle; Kalvin, Carla; Liu, Jianjun; Lerner, Richard M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
Using data from 1,676 youth who participated in three waves (Grades 6 to 8) of the longitudinal, 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, we tested two series of hierarchal linear models to examine the role of peer support, associating with "problem-behaving" friends, and bullying involvement in the development of behavioral and emotional school…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Early Adolescents, Peer Relationship, Learner Engagement