Peer Influence in Children and Adolescents: Crossing the Bridge from Developmental to Intervention Science

Gifford-Smith, Mary E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Dishion, Thomas J.; McCord, Joan

doi:10.1007/s10802-005-3563-7

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“…It may be that greater perceived peer acceptance by youths who drink and drive refl ects an accurate assessment of their peers' attitudes and behaviors. Adolescent peer groups show increasing levels of similarity in externalizing and risk-taking behaviors over time (Gifford-Smith et al, 2005). This interpretation is also supported by evidence: Changes in normative beliefs became more positive not only for those with prior drinking-and-driving experience but also as a function of time, and these changes exhibited an interaction between time and license status.…”

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Reciprocal Associations Between Drinking-and-Driving Behavior and Cognitions in Adolescents

McCarthy

Pedersen

2009

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT.Objective: The present study tested reciprocal associations between drinking-and-driving behavior and cognitions as youths transition to driving independently. We hypothesized that experience with driving and experience with drinking and driving would effect changes in cognitions about drinking and driving over time. We also tested cognitions as predictors of later drinking-and-driving behavior. Method: Two hundred and two high school youths completed mailed questionnaire measures at two time points, approximately 8 months apart. Questionnaire measures assessed youths' drinking-and-driving behavior, riding with a drinking driver, drinking-and-driving attitudes, normative beliefs, and perceived negative consequences at both time points. Results: Consistent with hypotheses, prior drinking-and-driving experience infl uenced changes in drinking-and-driving cognitions. Youths with drinking-anddriving experience at Time 1 saw drinking and driving as more dangerous over time; however, they perceived their peers as more accepting of this behavior. Time 1 attitudes predicted increased drinking-and-driving frequency at Time 2, and normative beliefs predicted increased frequency of riding with a drinking driver. Conclusions: These results support reciprocal associations between drinking-and-driving cognitions and behavior. Results of this study may have implications for the timing and content of drinking-and-driving interventions to reduce drinking and driving as well as riding with a drinking driver. , young drivers consume a greater amount of alcohol before driving and consider it safe to drive at higher blood alcohol concentrations than older drivers (Hingson and Winter, 2003). Compared with older drivers, youths are also at increased risk for alcohol-related traffi c crashes (Keall et al., 2004;Zador et al., 2000). Given this, it is important to understand risk processes that can infl uence and maintain youths' drinking-and-driving behaviors.The present study examines reciprocal associations between drinking-and-driving behavior and cognitions as youths transition to driving independently. Cognitive factors, such as attitudes and normative beliefs, are conceptualized as signifi cant antecedents of health risk behaviors in general (e.g., Ajzen and Fishbein, 2005;Sturges and Rogers, 1996) and substance-related behaviors in particular (Petraitis et al., 1995). However, there is also ample evidence from laboratory (Olsen and Stone, 2005) and longitudinal (Gerrard et al., 1996;Smith et al., 1995a) studies that engaging in a behavior can infl uence cognitions about that behavior. Reciprocal infl uences over time are an important component of developmental models of risk for externalizing problems in youths (Dodge and Pettit, 2003).Adolescent driving behavior can provide an ideal platform for examining reciprocal associations between cognitions and behavior. For youths, obtaining a driver's license is an important developmental transition, which can infl uence both the frequency and context of substance involvement (...

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confidence: 68%

Reciprocal Associations Between Drinking-and-Driving Behavior and Cognitions in Adolescents

McCarthy

Pedersen

2009

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…It was hypothesized that (1) children's sensation seeking, affiliation with deviant peers, and social images, increase over time, (2) children with higher initial levels of sensation seeking, and steeper growth in sensation seeking, will be more likely to be using marijuana in adolescence, (3) initial levels and growth in childhood sensation seeking will predict both initial levels and growth of later deviant peer affiliation and favorability of social images of marijuana users, and (4) these intervening variables were hypothesized to mediate the effect of sensation seeking on marijuana use. Because boys typically have higher levels of sensation seeking than girls (Zuckerman et al, 1978), and deviant peer affiliation may have stronger effects on girls than boys (Andrews, 2005;Gifford-Smith, Dodge, Dishion, & McCord, 2005), gender differences in this model were examined.…”

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Childhood predictors of adolescent marijuana use: Early sensation-seeking, deviant peer affiliation, and social images

Hampson

Andrews

Barckley

2008

Addictive Behaviors

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This study examined psychosocial mechanisms by which children's early sensation seeking may influence their later marijuana use. In a longitudinal study, 4 th and 5 th grade elementary school children (N = 420) were followed until they were in 11 th and 12 th grades in high school with annual or biennial assessments. Sensation seeking (assessed over the first 4 assessments) predicted affiliating with deviant peers and level of favorable social images of kids who use marijuana (both assessed over the subsequent 3 assessments). Affiliation with deviant peers and the growth in social images predicted marijuana use in 11 th and 12 th grades. Affiliation with deviant peers mediated the effect of early sensation seeking on subsequent marijuana use. The theoretical and applied significance of this influence of early sensation seeking is discussed.

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“…In this regards, Weinstein reported that friends and peers important reason in predicting drug use. Many of study's also reported families and friends have a role in the substance abuse; it seems that life skills education can be the usefulness results [18][19][20][21].…”

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confidence: 96%

Which One Support (Family, Friend or Other Significant) is Much More Important to Drug Cessation? A Study among Men Kermanshah Addicts, the West of Iran

Amoei¹

2013

J Addict Res Ther

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Peer Influence in Children and Adolescents: Crossing the Bridge from Developmental to Intervention Science

Cited by 379 publications

References 61 publications

Reciprocal Associations Between Drinking-and-Driving Behavior and Cognitions in Adolescents

Reciprocal Associations Between Drinking-and-Driving Behavior and Cognitions in Adolescents

Childhood predictors of adolescent marijuana use: Early sensation-seeking, deviant peer affiliation, and social images

Which One Support (Family, Friend or Other Significant) is Much More Important to Drug Cessation? A Study among Men Kermanshah Addicts, the West of Iran

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