Citation

Kornienko O, Davila M, Santos CE. J. Youth Adolesc. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10964-019-01109-9

PMID

31440880

Abstract

Growing evidence reveals heterogeneity in antisocial behavior and urges the need to distinguish between aggressive and nonaggressive rule-breaking behaviors. This study characterized how aggression and rule-breaking behaviors shaped peer selection and influence. Using a longitudinal social network modeling approach, these questions were addressed in a sample of 1034 ethno-racially diverse early adolescents (49.52% females, Mage = 12.1), who were assessed in fall and spring of the same year. The results showed no evidence of peer selection on aggressive and rule-breaking behaviors, and significant peer influence on aggressive behavior only. Rule-breaking also forecasted a decreased susceptibility to peer influence on aggressive behavior. The findings expanded our knowledge about complex pathways through which heterogeneity in antisocial behavior is reciprocally related to friendship networks.

Language: en

Keywords

Aggressive behavior; Antisocial behavior; Peer networks; RSiena; Rule-breaking behavior; Stochastic actor-oriented modeling