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Achterhof, Robin; Schneider, Maude; Kirtley, Olivia J.; Wampers, Martien; Decoster, Jeroen; Derom, Catherine; De Hert, Marc; Guloksuz, Sinan; Jacobs, Nele; Menne-Lothmann, Claudia; Rutten, Bart P. F.; Thiery, Evert; van Os, Jim; van Winkel, Ruud; Wichers, Marieke; Myin-Germeys, Inez – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Parents are known to provide a lasting basis for their children's social development. Understanding parent-driven socialization is particularly relevant in adolescence, as an increasing social independence is developed. However, the relationship between key parenting styles of care and control and the microlevel expression of daily-life social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Social Development, Child Development
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Armenta, Brian E.; Hautala, Dane S.; Whitbeck, Les B. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
In the present study, we considered the utility of the prototype/willingness model in predicting alcohol use among North-American Indigenous adolescents. Specifically, using longitudinal data, we examined the associations among subjective drinking norms, positive drinker prototypes, drinking expectations (as a proxy of drinking willingness), and…
Descriptors: Drinking, Adolescents, American Indians, Models
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Chang, Lei; Lu, Hui Jing; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Skinner, Ann T.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Steinberg, Laurence; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Chen, Bin Bin; Tian, Qian; Bacchini, Dario; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Pastorelli, Concetta; Alampay, Liane Peña; Sorbring, Emma; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Oburu, Paul; Malone, Patrick S.; Di Giunta, Laura; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Tapanya, Sombat – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety…
Descriptors: Safety, Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Longitudinal Studies
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Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline; Rutland, Adam; Abrams, Dominic; Killen, Melanie – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Ingroup preferences when deciding who to include in 2 distinct intergroup contexts, gender and school affiliation, were investigated. Children and adolescents, in the 4th (9-10 years) and 8th (13-14 years) grades, chose between including someone in their group who shared their group norm (moral or conventional) or who shared their group membership…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Preferences, Context Effect
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Perez-Edgar, Koraly; McDermott, Jennifer N. Martin; Korelitz, Katherine; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Curby, Timothy W.; Pine, Daniel S.; Fox, Nathan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The current study examined the relations between individual differences in sustained attention in infancy, the temperamental trait behavioral inhibition in childhood, and social behavior in adolescence. The authors assessed 9-month-old infants using an interrupted-stimulus attention paradigm. Behavioral inhibition was subsequently assessed in the…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Infants, Inhibition, Adolescents
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Halligan, Sarah L.; Philips, Katherine J. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
A bias toward attributing hostile intent to others has been linked to aggression. In an adolescent sample, the question of whether peer group homophily exists in the tendency toward attributing hostile intent was investigated. Hostile attribution tendencies and self-reported aggressive behaviors were assessed in a normative sample of 910…
Descriptors: Aggression, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Psychological Patterns
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Prinstein, Mitchell J.; Brechwald, Whitney A.; Cohen, Geoffrey L. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
A substantial amount of research has suggested that adolescents' attitudes and behaviors are influenced by peers; however, little is known regarding adolescents' individual variability, or susceptibility, to peer influence. In this study, a performance-based index from an experimental paradigm was used to directly measure adolescents'…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Adolescents, Peer Influence, Males
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Gano-Overway, Lori A.; Newton, Maria; Magyar, T. Michelle; Fry, Mary D.; Kim, Mi-Sook; Guivernau, Marta R. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Understanding what factors influence positive youth development has been advocated by youth development researchers (P. L. Benson, 2006; J. S. Eccles & J. A. Gootman, 2002). Consequently, the purpose of this study was to examine whether perceptions of a caring youth sport context influenced prosocial and antisocial behavior through…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Antisocial Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy
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Popp, Danielle; Laursen, Brett; Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Hakan; Burk, William J. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Selection and socialization have been implicated in friendship homophily, but the relative contributions of each are difficult to measure simultaneously because of the nonindependent nature of the data. To address this problem, the authors applied a multiple-groups longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model (D. A. Kashy & D. A. Kenny,…
Descriptors: Selection, Socialization, Friendship, Social Behavior
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Banerjee, Robin; Yuill, Nicola; Larson, Christina; Easton, Kate; Robinson, Elizabeth; Rowley, Martin – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Two experiments investigated children's implicit and explicit differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion. In Experiment 1, 8- to 9-year-olds' (n = 88) explicit understanding of the subjectivity of opinions was found to be limited, but their conformity to others' judgments on a matter of opinion was considerably…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Opinions, Anthropology, Adolescents
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Landsbaum, Jane B.; Willis, Richard H. – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Conformity, Peer Acceptance
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Beyth-Marom, Ruth; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Adults and adolescents listed possible consequences of either accepting or declining opportunities to engage in various potentially risky behaviors, such as drinking and driving, and skipping school. Response patterns were similar for both groups. (MM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis
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Feshbach, Norma; Sones, Gittelle – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Findings suggest a stable sex difference in response to outsiders which has roots in child's early developmental history. Boys were more friendly to newcomers than girls were. (NH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Friendship, Group Dynamics
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Beardslee, William R.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Examined the relation between the developmental social-cognitive capacity for interpersonal negotiation and both parental-risk and adolescent outcome variables in adolescents 11 to 19 years of age. Found that adolescents' interpersonal negotiation strategies (INS) negatively correlated with duration of parental illness, and that INS level…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Developmental Psychology, Family Problems, High Risk Persons
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Gavin, Leslie A.; Furman, Wyndol – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Examines peer group perceptions of 312 students in grades 5-12. Early and middle adolescents placed more value on being in a popular group; perceived more conformity, antagonism, and leadership in their groups; and reported more antagonistic interactions with those outside their groups than did preadolescents and late adolescents. (RJC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Group Dynamics
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