Sports Participation and Delinquent Peer Associations: Implications for Individual Behavior among Minority Girls

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Taylor ◽  
Tara L. Shoemaker ◽  
Desiree Z. Welch ◽  
Maurice Endsley Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Sports Participation ◽  
Individual Behavior ◽  
Peer Associations ◽  
Delinquent Peer ◽  
Minority Girls

scholarly journals Longitudinal Mechanisms Linking Perceived Racial Discrimination to Aggressive Delinquency among North American Indigenous Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 694-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dane Hautala ◽  
Kelley Sittner
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
North American ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Peer Associations ◽  
School Bonds ◽  
Delinquent Peer ◽  
Perceived Racial Discrimination

Objectives: Drawing from an integrated general strain theory framework, the purpose of the study is to examine the longitudinal mediating and moderating mechanisms linking perceived racial discrimination with aggressive delinquency among North American Indigenous (i.e., American Indian and Canadian First Nations) youth. Method: Data come from an eight-year longitudinal study of Indigenous youth residing on reservations/reserves in the upper Midwest and Canada ( N = 659). Scales were created for discrimination, depressive symptoms, school bonds, and delinquent peer associations at years 2 and 3, and a count measure of aggression was created at years 2, 3, and 5. Cross-lagged path analysis models were estimated to examine possible mediating effects of depressive symptoms, school bonds, and delinquent peer associations. Separate regression models were examined to test for possible moderating effects of the aforementioned variables. Results: The results of a longitudinal path analysis model showed that discrimination indirectly increased aggression through decreased school bonds and increased delinquent peer associations. Depressive symptoms was the only significant moderator, and contrary to expectations, the effect of discrimination on aggression declined in magnitude as depressive symptoms increased. Conclusions: Discrimination is a key criminogenic stressor among Indigenous youth and is linked with multiple adverse outcomes through the adolescent years.

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

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.

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

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-298 ◽  
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.

Cyberbullying and Delinquency in Adolescence: The Potential Mediating Effects of Social Attachment and Delinquent Peer Association

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110408
Author(s):  
Siying Guo
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Physical Fighting ◽  
Delinquent Behaviors ◽  
Social Attachment ◽  
Peer Associations ◽  
Delinquent Peer ◽  
Peer Association

Adopting the integrated model of General Strain Theory (GST), the current study tested the relations between cyberbullying roles (i.e., cyberbully, cybervictim, and cyberbully-victim) and delinquent behaviors (i.e., physical fighting and substance use), as well as the potential mediating effects of delinquent peer association and perceived social attachment from parents, friends, and teachers. This was conducted in a cross-sectional sample of 12,642 American adolescents via the use of structural equation models. The results indicated that being involved in cyberbullying might be not only directly associated with an increase in delinquent behaviors, but also indirectly via delinquent peer associations and perceived social attachment from parents, friends, and teachers. Furthermore, both direct and indirect (mediating) relationships between cyberbullying and delinquency might depend upon specific cyberbullying roles and the types of delinquency. Potential implications for prevention and intervention strategies were discussed.

Early Puberty, School Context, and Delinquency Among South Korean Girls

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 795-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye-Sook Park ◽  
Ilhong Yun ◽  
Anthony Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Pubertal Development ◽  
School Context ◽  
Early Puberty ◽  
Early Menarche ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Peer Associations ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Delinquent Peer ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Significant Linkage

Compared with chronological age, criminologists have paid less attention to the biological sense of age typically expressed by pubertal development. Studies that have examined pubertal timing’s effects on delinquency have almost exclusively been conducted in Western countries using mostly White samples. To our knowledge, no study has ever examined this issue in the Asian context. The current study is the first attempt to bridge this research gap by examining the association among menarcheal timing, the sex composition of schools, and delinquency in a representative sample of 1,108 ninth-grade girls in South Korea. The results show that significant association between early menarche and delinquency exists only in mixed-sex schools but not in all-girls schools. In addition, the significant linkage between early menarche and delinquency in mixed-sex schools is mediated by delinquent peer associations.

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