Adolescents with Few Friend Alternatives are Particularly Susceptible to Influence from Friends

Faur, Sharon; Laursen, Brett; Juvonen, Jaana

doi:10.1007/s10964-022-01718-x

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“…warned her against a poor man," and SS states, "There was also some influence from friends." Faur et al (2023) point out that it is common for adolescents to be influenced by friends and families, but He et al (2023) do not expect adults to be quickly affected, not even by parents.…”

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Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

Seeletse

2023

INSPIRA: Indonesian J. Psy. Res.

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This study was requested by victims of gender-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner violence (IPV), who wanted their voices to be heard. They were not interested in their identities being revealed, but they only wanted to share their stories to expose some rot by high-profile people. This paper sought to explore the meanings that these victims attach to the experiences of GBV and IPV in cases where perpetrators are well-to-do, highly respected persons occupying positions of authority in recognized establishments. Six (6) IPV victims, selected using the purposive sampling method, participated in the study. They were interviewed, and their text data was analyzed. The results show that some high-status people perpetrate GBV and IPV, covering the known types of IPV and generating two new ones of IPV extending to the victim’s family and threats to divorce their victim. The paper recommends monitoring and evaluating high-status people and also bars GBV and IPV perpetrators from practicing in high-profile trades.

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Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

Seeletse

2023

INSPIRA: Indonesian J. Psy. Res.

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“…Some children are not well liked because they are shy [39], others are not well liked because they are anxious [40]; both may give rise to conformity as a strategy to reduce social pressure. Perhaps even more important, low accepted youth have fewer options for friends than their higher accepted partners, which may provide a strong incentive to avoid conflict (from nonconformity) that could prove disruptive [41]. Children with few options for friends may conclude that it is better to concede to a friend than to lose a friend.…”

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Relative likeability and relative popularity as sources of influence in children’s friendships

2023

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The present study contrasts two forms of peer status as sources of friend influence: Relative likeability and relative popularity. Participants included 310 children (142 boys, 168 girls), ages 9 to 12, in stable reciprocated friendships. Peer nominations were collected at two time points, 8 to 14 weeks apart. After removing overlapping variance through residualization, partners in each friend dyad were categorized into roles on the basis of relative (to the partner) popularity and relative (to the partner) likeability. Dyadic analyses compared more- and less-liked friends and more- and less-popular friends in terms of their influence over physical aggression, relational aggression, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement. Higher initial relational aggression, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement among more-liked partners predicted greater increases in the same among less-liked partners, but not the reverse. Unexpectedly, physical aggression among less-liked partners predicted increases in physical aggression among more-liked partners. More popular friends did not influence less popular friends on any of these variables, although (also unexpectedly) less-popular friends influenced the academic achievement of more-popular friends. Taken together, the findings suggest that during the pre- and early adolescent years, relative influence within a friendship tends to be apportioned on the basis of likeability, not popularity.

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“…Considerably less is known about the nature and impact of dominance hierarchies within close friendships, which function as critical relational contexts for adolescents' psychological development (Bagwell & Bukowski, 2018). Although equity has traditionally been touted as a defining feature of adolescent friendships (Hartup 1998), more contemporary accounts of peer relationships highlight the potential for disequilibrium (Faur et al, 2023) and power differentials (Rubin et al, 2008) within friendships. Given the psychological costs of low peer status during adolescence, youth who perceive their friends to be highly dominant (e.g., holding decisionmaking power; always getting things their way) may experience depleted self-worth and, consequently, elevated risk for internalizing distress.…”

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The Power Dynamics of Friendship: Between- and Within- Person Associations among Friend Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms

Schacter

Hoffman

Ehrhardt

2023

J Youth Adolescence

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Although forming close, egalitarian peer relationships is a central developmental task of adolescence, little is known about the psychological consequences of power imbalances in adolescents' friendships. The current study investigated whether there are psychological costs of feeling subordinate to friends by examining longitudinal associations between adolescents' perceived friend dominance and internalizing symptoms. Across one year, five waves of survey data were collected from 388 adolescents (M age = 14.05, SD age = 0.41; 61% female; 46% White, 19% Black, 17% Asian, 6% Arab, Middle Eastern, North African, 6% Biracial/Multiethnic, 3% Latinx/Hispanic, 1% American Indian/Native American, 1% identifying with another race/ethnicity, <1% not reporting). Multilevel modeling disentangled between-and within-person effects of perceived friend dominance on depressive and anxiety (internalizing) symptoms and tested self-esteem as a mediator. The results indicated that both individual differences and intraindividual fluctuations in perceived friend dominance were associated with internalizing symptoms. At the between-person level, adolescents who perceived their friends as more dominant reported more severe depressive and anxiety symptoms than adolescents who perceived their friends as less dominant. At the withinperson level, increases in perceived friend dominance were accompanied by increases in depressive and anxiety symptoms, and these associations were partially explained by changes in self-esteem. The findings advance understanding of power dynamics in adolescents' close friendships and highlight the psychological toll of feeling dominated by friends.

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Adolescents with Few Friend Alternatives are Particularly Susceptible to Influence from Friends

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

Some scandals in gender-based violence and intimate partner violence

Relative likeability and relative popularity as sources of influence in children’s friendships

The Power Dynamics of Friendship: Between- and Within- Person Associations among Friend Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms

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