ReviewAnnual review of psychology2011
Peer contagion in child and adolescent social and emotional development.
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261 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 812 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of physical exercise on aggressive behavior in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Peer influence in adolescent drinking behavior: A meta-analysis of stochastic actor-based modeling studies.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Adolescent Deviance and Cyber-Deviance. A Systematic Literature Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- The Relationship between Moral Climate of Sports and the Moral Behavior of Young Athletes: A Multilevel Meta-analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2019Pooled it
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- Intervention on the externalization of undercontrolled junior high school students: a school-based randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
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- Genotype-environment correlation by intervention effects underlying middle childhood peer rejection and associations with adolescent marijuana use.Development and psychopathology · 2022Trial
- Predictors and moderators of response to brief interventions among adolescents with risky alcohol and marijuana use.Substance abuse · 2022Trial
- Peer Relations and Delinquency Among Girls in Foster Care Following a Skill-Building Preventive Intervention.Child maltreatment · 2021Trial
- Oxytocin Receptor Gene Variant Interacts with Intervention Delivery Format in Predicting Intervention Outcomes for Youth with Conduct Problems.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
- Multidimensional Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Usual Care for Adolescent Conduct Problems and Substance Use.Administration and policy in mental health · 2017Trial
- Impacts of Family Rewards on Adolescents' Mental Health and Problem Behavior: Understanding the Full Range of Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Trial
- London Education and Inclusion Project (LEIP): Results from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Reduce School Exclusion and Antisocial Behavior.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2017Trial
- Unpacking the Antecedents and Consequences of Resilience to Socioeconomic Risks: Changes from Mid- to Late Adolescence.International journal of behavioral development · 2026Article
- "It's Okay, Everyone Else Is Doing It": Moral Disengagement and Peer Delinquency.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Co-Rumination with Peers Predicts Risk for Depression in Offspring of Mothers with Major Depressive Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Beyond the offense: clinical correlates of repeated incarceration among justice-involved male adolescents with substance use disorder.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Candidate transdiagnostic processes linking potentially traumatic experiences to psychopathology, mental well-being and resilience in emerging adults.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Between Help and Harm: An Evaluation Study of Mental Health Crisis Handling by Large Language Models.JMIR mental health · 2026Article
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Abstract
In this article, we examine the construct of peer contagion in childhood and adolescence and review studies of child and adolescent development that have identified peer contagion influences. Evidence suggests that children's interactions with peers are tied to increases in aggression in early and middle childhood and amplification of problem behaviors such as drug use, delinquency, and violence in early to late adolescence. Deviancy training is one mechanism that accounts for peer contagion effects on problem behaviors from age 5 through adolescence. In addition, we discuss peer contagion relevant to depression in adolescence, and corumination as an interactive process that may account for these effects. Social network analyses suggest that peer contagion underlies the influence of friendship on obesity, unhealthy body images, and expectations. Literature is reviewed that suggests how peer contagion effects can undermine the goals of public education from elementary school through college and impair the goals of juvenile corrections systems. In particular, programs that "select" adolescents at risk for aggregated preventive interventions are particularly vulnerable to peer contagion effects. It appears that a history of peer rejection is a vulnerability factor for influence by peers, and adult monitoring, supervision, positive parenting, structure, and self-regulation serve as protective factors.
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