Beyond Peer Influence and Selection: A Gendered Pathways Analysis of Social Environmental Predictors of Change in Child and Peer Delinquency

The purpose of this study was to determine whether maternal closeness and participation in unstructured routine activities differentially predicted change in child and peer delinquency for female and male youth above and beyond the effects of peer influence and selection. Participants were 3,370 (1,759 boys, 1,611 girls) members of the Fragile Families and Child Welfare Study. When regression analyses were performed on boys and girls separately, unstructured routine activities effectively predicted a rise in child and peer delinquency in boys and maternal closeness successfully predicted a drop in child and peer delinquency in girls, findings consistent with gendered pathways theory.

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Longitudinal Study of Social-environmental Predictors of Behavior: Children of Adolescent and Older Mothers Compared

Canadian Studies in Population ◽

10.25336/p66c92 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nicole Letourneau ◽

Cara. B. Fedick ◽

J. Douglas Willms ◽

Miriam Stewart ◽

Kelly White

Keyword(s):

Adolescent Mothers ◽

Predictor Variables ◽

Environmental Predictors ◽

Older Mothers ◽

Female Children ◽

Males And Females ◽

Children’S Anxiety ◽

Social Environmental ◽

Optimal Parenting ◽

Social Environmental Factors

Compared to older, more educated mothers, adolescent mothers are more prone to less than optimal parenting interactions with their children. Moreover, adolescents’ children are more likely to experience developmental challenges. In this study, effects of social-environmental factors in the first two years of life on children’s anxiety and hyperactivity from age 2 to 8 were examined by analyzing Canadian longitudinal data. Initial levels of anxiety and hyperactivity were higher for children of adolescent mothers, and anxiety increased with age for all children. Female children displayed lower initial levels of hyperactivity than males, and females of adolescent mothers showed a steeper decrease in hyperactivity while males of adolescent mothers showed a steeper increase in hyperactivity than their counterparts parented by older mothers. Parenting, social support and other demographic factors were controlled for and the effects of these predictor variables on trajectories of anxiety and hyperactivity are discussed.

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The Moderating Effect of Prosocial Peers on the Relationships Between Peer Delinquency, Neutralization, and Violent Offending

Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society ◽

10.54555/ccjls.3769.30146 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Glenn D. Walters

Keyword(s):

Peer Influence ◽

Current Investigation ◽

Peer Delinquency ◽

Protective Function ◽

Violent Offending ◽

Influence Effect ◽

Peer Associations ◽

Delinquent Peer ◽

Prosocial Peers ◽

And Training

The goal of the current investigation was to determine whether prosocial peer associations can serve as protective factors by interacting with key components of the peer influence effect. A moderated mediation analysis performed on 2,474 youth (52% female) from the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) study (mean age = 12.13 years) revealed that Wave 2 prosocial peer associations moderated the peer delinquency–neutralization relationship. Alternately, Wave 3 prosocial peer associations moderated the neutralization–violent offending relationship. Hence, neutralization beliefs were disproportionately weaker in participants with fewer delinquent peer associations and more prosocial peer associations, whereas the effect of neutralization on delinquency was attenuated, though not eliminated, by strong prosocial peer associations. These results suggest that prosocial peer associations may serve a protective function at different points in the peer influence sequence and that they may be more than simply the converse of peer delinquency.

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Peer influence or projection bias? Predicting respondent delinquency with perceptual measures of peer delinquency in 22 samples

Journal of Adolescence ◽

10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.11.001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 70 ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Glenn D. Walters

Keyword(s):

Peer Influence ◽

Peer Delinquency ◽

Projection Bias

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Proactive Criminal Thinking and Deviant Identity as Mediators of the Peer Influence Effect

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice ◽

10.1177/1541204016636436 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 281-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Glenn D. Walters

Keyword(s):

Peer Influence ◽

Criminal Thinking ◽

Major Pathway ◽

Peer Delinquency ◽

Cause And Effect ◽

Youth Survey ◽

Influence Effect ◽

Peer Associations ◽

Delinquent Peer ◽

Moral Model

The purpose of this study was to test the moral model of criminal lifestyle development with data from the 1,725-member (918 boys and 807 girls) National Youth Survey. It was hypothesized that peer delinquency would predict proactive criminal thinking but not deviant identity as part of a four-variable chain running from peer delinquency to participant delinquency. Consistent with this hypothesis, the pathway running from peer delinquency to proactive criminal thinking to deviant identity to participant delinquency was significant but the pathway running from peer delinquency to deviant identity to proactive criminal thinking to participant delinquency was not. Deviant identity nonetheless predicted proactive criminal thinking and delinquency. These results support a major pathway in the moral model and indicate that while deviant identity plays a role in antisocial development, it is as a cause and effect of proactive criminal thinking rather than as an effect of delinquent peer associations.

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Imputational modeling of spatial context and social environmental predictors of walking in an underserved community: The PATH trial

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology ◽

10.1016/j.sste.2012.10.001 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 15-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Dawn K. Wilson ◽

Caitlyn Ellerbe ◽

Andrew B. Lawson ◽

Kassandra A. Alia ◽

Duncan C. Meyers ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Spatial Context ◽

Environmental Predictors ◽

Underserved Community ◽

Social Environmental

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Individual and social/environmental predictors of alcohol and drug use 2 years following substance abuse treatment

Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1016/s0306-4603(01)00284-2 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 627-642 ◽

Cited By ~ 89

Author(s):

Maureen A Walton ◽

Frederic C Blow ◽

C.Raymond Bingham ◽

Stephen T Chermack

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Drug Use ◽

Substance Abuse Treatment ◽

Environmental Predictors ◽

Alcohol And Drug Use ◽

Social Environmental ◽

Abuse Treatment

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Digital Disclosure of Delinquency: Online Peers and the Sharing of Offline Crime

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/00111287211067179 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 001112872110671

Author(s):

Timothy McCuddy

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

Peer Influence ◽

Digital Communication ◽

Online Communication ◽

School Students ◽

Peer Delinquency ◽

Unique Source

Digital communication poses challenges for scholars interested in the link between peers and crime since youth are often less inhibited online and can more easily share their opinions and experiences with offline activities. Drawing on longitudinal data from middle and high school students, this study explores how online communication impacts the sharing of personal and peer delinquency. Criminogenic risk factors are largely unrelated to the digital disclosure of personal delinquency among those who offend; however, peer online disclosure is related to self-reported delinquency, independent of perceived peer delinquency. These findings suggest cyberspace may extend offline mechanisms of peer influence beyond providing a unique source of online influence.

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Anteseden dari Green Buying Behaviour

Telaah Bisnis ◽

10.35917/tb.v19i2.164 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Dika Septariana ◽

Luki Adiati Pratomo

Keyword(s):

Hypothesis Testing ◽

Peer Influence ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Buying Behavior ◽

Self Identity ◽

The Past ◽

Personal Norm ◽

Social Environmental ◽

Buying Behaviour

The aim of this study is to examine the factors that can influence green buying behavior. Factors to be investigated are personal norm, social environmental norm, peer influence, and green self-identity. The research design used in this study is hypothesis testing with a purposive sampling technique. The number of respondents is 200, with the specific criteria is consumers who understand and consume environmentally friendly products in the past year. The results showed that the four variables, namely personal norm, social environmental norm, peer influence, green self-identity, had a positive influence on green buying behavior.

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