ArticleJournal of emotional and behavioral disorders2018
Peer Network Dynamics and the Amplification of Antisocial to Violent Behavior Among Young Adolescents in Public Middle Schools.
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- Understanding Substance Use in Alaska Native Youth- A Social Network Perspective.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Tribal Reservation Adolescent Connections Study: A study protocol using mixed methods for examining social networks and associated outcomes among American Indian youth on a Northern Plains reservation.Child abuse & neglect · 2024Article
- Drug use talk in adolescent friendship interactions: Long-term effects of social learning on lifetime diagnosed substance use disorders.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2022Article
- Peer Factors as Mediators of Relations Between Exposure to Violence and Physical Aggression in Middle School Students in a Low-Income Urban Community.Psychology of violence · 2022Article
- Polygenic Risk for Aggression Predicts Adult Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses via Substance Use Offending in Emerging Adulthood and is Moderated by a Family-Centered Intervention.Behavior genetics · 2021Article
- Dynamic pathways between rejection and antisocial behavior in peer networks: Update and test of confluence model.Development and psychopathology · 2020Article
- Adolescent Social Networks and Physical, Verbal, and Indirect Aggression in China: The Moderating Role of Gender.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Friendship Network Dynamics of Aggressive and Rule-Breaking Antisocial Behaviors in Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2019Article
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This study examined longitudinal changes in peer network selection and influence associated with self-reported antisocial behavior (AB) and violent behavior (VB) over the course of middle school in a sample of ethnically diverse adolescents. Youth and families were randomly assigned to a school-based intervention focused on the prevention of substance use. Using a longitudinal social network modeling approach, we found that students with similar levels of AB were more likely to affiliate during the transition from sixth to seventh grade (peer selection). Higher levels of AB in the seventh grade led to growth in network size by eighth grade. No peer selection effects documented for VB, but youth became more similar to total levels of VB reported by their peers between seventh and eighth grades (peer influence). As expected, AB was positively associated with VB levels. Random assignment to intervention condition affected peer selection at Grade 7 but did not reduce levels of self-reported AB or VB. These findings suggest that managing peer networks using a variety of strategies is likely to reduce peer contagion for AB and VB in a public middle school setting. We discuss emerging intervention strategies for the management and the prevention of emotional and behavioral disorders.
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