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ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2025

Academic Achievement, Externalizing Problems, and Close Friends in Middle School: Testing a Developmental Cascade Model Leading to Educational Attainment in the Late Twenties.

Marie-Hélène Véronneau, Frank Vitaro, François Poulin, Thao Ha, Olga Kornienko

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Marie-Hélène VéronneauDepartement of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada. veronneau.marie-helene@uqam.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2670-735X
Frank VitaroSchool of Psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3897-2916
François PoulinDepartement of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montréal, QC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6345-8233
Thao HaDepartement of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1498-7873
Olga KornienkoDepartment of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7327-0250

Funding

UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING ADOLESCENT DRUG ABUSER37DA007031 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI DISHION, THOMAS J · 1997 to 2005
$7.2M
Understanding and Preventing Early Adult Drug AbuseR01DA007031 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI LEMERY-CHALFANT, KATHRYN · 1991 to 2015
$6.2M
Relationship Dynamics and Young Adult Drug Use and AbuseR01AA022071 · NIAAA · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI HA, PHUONG THAO · 2012 to 2016
$2.4M
Mediators of the Relationship Between Peer Experiences and Academic AdjustmentR03HD062753 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF QUEBEC AT MONTREAL · PI VERONNEAU, MARIE-HELENE · 2012 to 2013
$105k
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA022071NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD062753NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA007031NIDA NIH HHS R37 DA007031
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Abstract

Because educational attainment is associated with well-being in the long term, it is important to understand the developmental processes that enhance academic outcomes during adolescence. Also, although the importance of friends is well documented in adolescence, little is known about how close friends' characteristics work together with youth's own characteristics to shape adolescents' educational trajectories. This study fills an important gap in knowledge by focusing on how middle school students' academic achievement and externalizing problems are associated with their friends' achievement and externalizing problems over time, and how these variables predict educational attainment in adulthood. This study innovates by examining developmental cascades involving adolescents' academic achievement, externalizing problems, and these characteristics in their close friends in the context of random-intercept cross-lagged panel modeling (RI-CLPM), which disentangles within-person changes and between-person differences during the three years of middle school. The sample included 998 middle school students (M

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Academic SuccessAdolescent BehaviorFriendsProblem BehaviorStudentsAdolescentAdolescent DevelopmentChildEducational StatusFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleSchoolsYoung AdultEducationEducational attainmentExternalizationPeer relationsProspective studiesYouth

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PMCPMC13390302

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