ArticleJournal of adolescence2021
The influence of exposure to violence on adolescents' physical aggression: The protective influence of peers.
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- Longitudinal Associations Between Peer Risk and Promotive Factors and Exposure to Community Firearm Violence Among Black Adolescents.Journal of community psychology · 2025Article
- Relations Between Perceptions of Parental Messages Supporting Fighting and Nonviolence and Adolescents' Physical Aggression: Beliefs as Mediators.Aggressive behavior · 2024Article
- Is it possible to talk about violence climate in grassroots sport? A study on the psychosocial adaptations of young athletes.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Exposure to violence predicts callous-unemotional traits and aggression in adolescence in the context of persistent ethnic-political conflict and violence.Aggressive behavior · 2023Article
- The Association between Participation in Fights and Bullying and the Perception of School, Teachers, and Peers among School-Age Children in Serbia.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- My Exposure to Violence: translation and cultural adaptation to the BR Portuguese.Revista de saude publica · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionThis study examined the degree to which peers can serve as a protective factor to mitigate the negative effects of exposure to violence (i.e., victimization, witnessing violence) on adolescents' physical aggression. Four specific dimensions of peer influence were examined - friends' support for nonviolence, friends' support for fighting, peer pressure for fighting, and friends' delinquent behavior.
methodsAnalyses were conducted on four waves of data collected every 3 months (i.e., fall, winter, spring, summer) from a predominantly African-American (78%) sample of 2575 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders attending three public middle schools in the United States. The sample was 52% female, with a mean age of 12.3 years (SD = 1.00).
resultsFindings for relations with victimization differed by sex. For boys, low levels of friends' delinquent behavior attenuated the relation between victimization and changes in physical aggression across all three waves. The protective effect of low levels of peer pressure for fighting was only evident in the winter for boys, whereas the protective effect of friends' support for nonviolence was only evident in the summer. For girls, high levels of friends' support for nonviolence attenuated the relation between victimization in the winter and changes in physical aggression in the spring. In contrast, none of the peer factors moderated the relation between witnessing violence and physical aggression.
conclusionsFindings suggest that prevention and interventions that increase positive peer influences and decrease negative peer influences may benefit adolescents by reducing risks associated with victimization.
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