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Risky Lifestyle as a Mediator of the Relationship between Deviant Peer Affiliation and Dating Violence Victimization among Adolescent Girls
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Vezina, Johanne; Hebert, Martine; Poulin, Francois; Lavoie, Francine; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Few studies have explored the possible contribution of the peer group to dating violence victimization. The current study tested the hypothesis that a risky lifestyle would mediate the relationship between deviant peer affiliation and dating violence victimization among adolescent girls. The proposed mediation model was derived from lifestyles and…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Harassment, Females, Peer Relationship
Associations between Interpersonal Relationships in Organized Leisure Activities and Youth Adjustment
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Denault, Anne-Sophie; Poulin, Francois – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2008
This study examined (a) the unique contribution of mothers' involvement in their children's organized activity, fathers' involvement in the activity, social integration in the activity peer group, and social support from the activity leader on youth adjustment and (b) the moderating effects of youths' gender and prior adjustment on these…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Academic Achievement, Peer Groups, Grade 7
When Interventions Harm: Peer Groups and Problem Behavior.
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Dishion, Thomas J.; Mc Cord, Joan; Poulin, Francois – American Psychologist, 1999
Explores developmental and intervention evidence relevant to iatrogenic effects in peer-group interventions. Findings from two intervention studies involving 119 high-risk youth and 39 controls and 150 pairs of adolescent boys suggest that high-risk youth are particularly vulnerable to peer aggregations when compared to low-risk youth. Discusses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Group Membership, Intervention
Is There a Dark Side of Positive Illusions? Overestimation of Social Competence and Subsequent Adjustment in Aggressive and Nonaggressive Children
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Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Turgeon, Lyse; Poulin, Francois; Wanner, Brigitte – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2004
This study examined (a) the links between children's overly positive perceptions about the relations with the peer group and with their best friend to subsequent behavioral, emotional, and social adjustment, and (b) whether these links are moderated by children's aggression. Using a short-term longitudinal design, the study was based on a sample…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Interpersonal Competence, Social Adjustment, Friendship
Group Identification in Early Adolescence: Its Relation with Peer Adjustment and Its Moderator Effect on Peer Influence.
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Kiesner, Jeff; Cadinu, Mara; Poulin, Francois; Bucci, Monica – Child Development, 2002
Investigated the relationship between peer group identification and similarity between individuals involved in problem behavior, and whether group identification moderated group influence on development of delinquent behavior among Italian sixth- and seventh-graders. Found that group behavior interacted with reciprocity of group nominations in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior
Peer Group Dynamics Associated with Iatrogenic Effects in Group Interventions with High-Risk Young Adolescents.
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Dishion, Thomas J.; Poulin, Francois; Burraston, Bert – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Studied adolescent participants in a group intervention program to determine the influence of peer reactions to problem behavior. Found that the impact of friendship is not always positive and can lead to unintended iatrogenic consequences. Concludes that adults' role in attending to children's peer contexts is perhaps the most critical for…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Friendship