TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - The co-development of friends' delinquency with adolescents' delinquency and short-term mindsets: the moderating role of co-offending
JO  - Journal of youth and adolescence
A1  - Defoe, Ivy N.
A1  - van Gelder, Jean-Louis
A1  - Ribeaud, Denis
A1  - Eisner, Manuel
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The companions in crime hypothesis suggests that co-offending moderates the link between peer delinquency and adolescent delinquency. However, this hypothesis has rarely been investigated longitudinally. Hence, this study investigated the co-development of friends' delinquency and adolescents' delinquency, as well as the co-development of friends' delinquency and short-term mindsets (impulsivity and lack of school future orientation). Whether this co-development is stronger when adolescents engage in co-offending was also investigated. Three data waves with two year lags from an ethnically-diverse adolescent sample (at wave 1: N = 1365; 48.6% female; M(age) = 13.67; age range = 12.33-15.09 years) in Switzerland were used. The results from parallel process latent growth modeling showed that the co-development between friends' delinquency and adolescents' delinquency was stronger when adolescents engaged in co-offending. Thus co-offending likely provides direct access to a setting in which adolescents continue to model the delinquency they learned with their peers.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0047-2891
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01417-z
ID  - ref1
ER  -