Friends, Lovers and Groups: Key Relationships in Adolescence

‘In your hands you have a book that focuses on a hot issue in adolescent research today – which peers are important in young people’s lives and how they affect and are affected by them.”
Taken from Engels, Stattin and Kerr, Introduction and Overview
Everyone agrees that peers are important in adolescence. Recently, there have been some noteworthy advances in research on adolescent peer relationships and this volume, written by leading experts, presents four key areas of these innovative studies:
Firstly, the discovery of a “deviancy training” mechanism of peer influence is examined, in which antisocial pairs have been observed to reward each other with approval for deviant or antisocial talk, and this has been linked to escalations in antisocial behaviour. The second area is the study of romantic partners as important peer relationships in adolescence. This is a newly emerging field of research with only a dozen or so studies published to date. The text then looks at the application of behavioural genetic analytical techniques to understand peer selection and influence processes. This line of research will also shed a new light on social environmental influences on adolescent problem behaviours. The final area covers the use of designs that capture both in–school and out–of–school peers in order to understand their relative influence on problem behaviour.
As the first of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, a three–part developmental psychology range, this volume presents the work of highly prestigious chapter authors edited by Rutger Engels, Håkan Stattin and Margaret Kerr.
This invaluable research tool is essential reading for researchers, final year undergraduates and postgraduates in developmental and health psychology, and child psychologists.
Contributors
Roy F. Baumeister, USA
Ginette C. Blackhart, USA
Sande r M. Bot, The Netherlands
William Bukowski, Canada
Antonius H. N. Cillessen, USA
Thomas J. Dishion, USA
Rutger C. M. E. Engels, The Netherlands
Wyndol Furman, USA
Isabela Granic, The Netherlands
Martin J. Ho, USA
Margaret Kerr, Sweden
Jeff Kiesner, Sweden
Brett Laursen, USA
Caroline Lisboa, Brazil
Sabina M. Low, USA
Lara Mayeux, USA
Karen S. Mooney, USA
Sarah E. Nelson, USA
Richard J. Rose, USA
Ron H. J. Scholte, The Netherlands
Rainer K. Silbereisen, Germany
Håkan Stattin, Sweden
Peter Titzmann, Germany

Spis treści:
About the Editors.
Contributors.
Introduction and Overview (Rutger C. M. E. Engels, Margaret Kerr, and Hakan Stattin).
1 Male Adolescent Friendships: Relationship Dynamics that Predict Adult Adjustment (Thomas J. Dishion and Sarah E. Nelson).
2 Peer Influence and the Development of Antisocial Behavior (Lara Mayeux and Antonius H. N. Cillessen).
3 Peers and Adolescent Substance Use (Rutger C. M. E. Engels, Sander M. Bot, Ron H. J. Scholte, and Isabela Granic).
4 The Rocky Road of Adolescent Romantic Experience: Dating and Adjustment (Wyndol Furman, Martin J. Ho, and Sabina M. Low).
5 Individual Differences in Adolescent Dating and Adjustment (Brett Laursen and Karen S. Mooney).
6 Three Perspectives on Gender Differences in Adolescent Sexual Development (Roy F. Baumeister and Ginnette C. Blackhart).
7 Peers, Parents, and Processes of Adolescent Socialization: A Twin–Study Perspective (Richard J. Rose).
8 Peers and Problem Behavior: Have We Missed Something? (Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin, and Jeff Kiesner).
9 Peers Among Immigrants – Some Comments on ‘Have We Missed Something?’ (Rainer K. Silbereisen and Pete r Titzmann).
10 Understanding the Place of Place in Developmental Psychology (William Bukowski and Carolina Lisboa).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Rutger C.M.E. Engels, Ph.D., is Professor in Family Psychology at the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands since 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Department of Medical Sociology, Maastricht University in 1998. Since then he has worked for three years as a post–doc and assistant professor at the department of child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University. Currently, he is involved in fundamental research on the link between (social0environmental influences on adolescent and young adult substance use and delinquency.
Margaret Kerr is Professor of Psychology at Orebro University, Sweden, and Co–director of the Center for Developmental Research. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University, U.S.A., and then completed a post–doctoral research fellowship with Richard Tremblay at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is an associate editor of the Journal of research on Adolescence. Her research focuses on internal and external adjustment in adolescents and its role in the life course. Her current research interests include adolescents choices of developmental contexts and parent–child relationships and their role in the development of delinquency.
Hakan Stattin is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala and Orebro Universities, Sweden. He earned his Ph.D. at Stockholm University and has served as President of the European Association for Research on Adolescence and associates editor for the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. he is probably best known for his research in three areas: delinquency development, pubertal maturation in adolescent girls, and parental monitoring. His works include an authored book(with David Magnusson in 1990), Pubertal Maturation in Female Development. In addi tion to his continued basic research in these areas, he is conducting prevention trials to reduce alcohol drinking and delinquency among adolescents.

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‘In your hands you have a book that focuses on a hot issue in adolescent research today – which peers are important in young people’s lives and how they affect and are affected by them.”
Taken from Engels, Stattin and Kerr, Introduction and Overview
Everyone agrees that peers are important in adolescence. Recently, there have been some noteworthy advances in research on adolescent peer relationships and this volume, written by leading experts, presents four key areas of these innovative studies:
Firstly, the discovery of a “deviancy training” mechanism of peer influence is examined, in which antisocial pairs have been observed to reward each other with approval for deviant or antisocial talk, and this has been linked to escalations in antisocial behaviour. The second area is the study of romantic partners as important peer relationships in adolescence. This is a newly emerging field of research with only a dozen or so studies published to date. The text then looks at the application of behavioural genetic analytical techniques to understand peer selection and influence processes. This line of research will also shed a new light on social environmental influences on adolescent problem behaviours. The final area covers the use of designs that capture both in–school and out–of–school peers in order to understand their relative influence on problem behaviour.
As the first of the Hot Topics in Developmental Research series, a three–part developmental psychology range, this volume presents the work of highly prestigious chapter authors edited by Rutger Engels, Håkan Stattin and Margaret Kerr.
This invaluable research tool is essential reading for researchers, f inal year undergraduates and postgraduates in developmental and health psychology, and child psychologists.
Contributors
Roy F. Baumeister, USA
Ginette C. Blackhart, USA
Sander M. Bot, The Netherlands
William Bukowski, Canada
Antonius H. N. Cillessen, USA
Thomas J. Dishion, USA
Rutger C. M. E. Engels, The Netherlands
Wyndol Furman, USA
Isabela Granic, The Netherlands
Martin J. Ho, USA
Margaret Kerr, Sweden
Jeff Kiesner, Sweden
Brett Laursen, USA
Caroline Lisboa, Brazil
Sabina M. Low, USA
Lara Mayeux, USA
Karen S. Mooney, USA
Sarah E. Nelson, USA
Richard J. Rose, USA
Ron H. J. Scholte, The Netherlands
Rainer K. Silbereisen, Germany
Håkan Stattin, Sweden
Peter Titzmann, Germany