Peer Networks and the Development of Illegal Political Behavior Among Adolescents

Dahl, Viktor; Zalk, Maarten van

doi:10.1111/jora.12072

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“…In the studies reported in this issue, researchers examined dynamics in networks and a range of behaviors, including externalizing problems, internalizing problems, substance use, healthcompromising behaviors, prosocial behavior, social goals, and happiness. Other topics recently investigated but not included in this issue are dynamics in networks and victimization (Sentse, Dijkstra, Salmivalli, & Cillessen, 2013;Sijtsema, Rambaran, & Ojanen, 2013), xenophobia (Van Zalk, Kerr, Van Zalk, & Stattin, 2013), political behaviors (Dahl & Van Zalk, 2014), and religious service attendance (Cheadle & Schwadek, 2012).…”

Section: Dynamics In Network and A Range Of Behaviorsmentioning

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Network–Behavior Dynamics

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Researchers have become increasingly interested in disentangling selection and influence processes. This literature review provides context for the special issue on network-behavior dynamics. It brings together important conceptual, methodological, and empirical contributions focusing on longitudinal social network modeling. First, an overview of mechanisms underlying selection and influence is given. After a description of the shortcomings of previous studies in this area, the stochastic actor-based model is sketched; this is used in this special issue to examine network-behavior dynamics. The preconditions for such analyses are discussed, as are common model specification issues. Next, recent empirical advances in research on adolescence are discussed, focusing on new insights into moderating effects, initiation of behaviors, time heterogeneity, mediation effects, and negative ties.Relationships with peers provide an important context for social development and adjustment. Two fundamental processes underlying network-behavior dynamics are key to our understanding of adolescents' development: selection and influence. Selection processes concern, for example, whom adolescents choose to hang out or be friends with. They affect the formation and dissolution of relationships. One important and well-known class of selection processes is based on similarity. Beginning in early childhood, children tend to sort themselves nonrandomly into friendships, selecting peers who are more or less similar to themselves. However, similarity is not the only possible basis of relationships. Selection processes refer more generally to any mechanism by which individuals adjust their relationships in response to the social context, their own behaviors, and their peers' behaviors.In contrast, peer relationships also shape individual behaviors and other changeable characteristics (e.g., attitudes and opinions). Whom adolescents hang out with and whom they consider to be friends affects their individual development. Influence processes refer more generally to individuals changing their behavior or attitudes in response to (the behavior or attitudes of) the peers they affiliate with.A methodological challenge here is that selection and influence processes might both result in the same empirical phenomenon: similarity of connected individuals. This similarity may result from similar individuals choosing each other (selection), which suggests that behavior remains similar, but relationships change, or from connected individuals becoming increasingly similar (influence), which suggests that relationships remain stable but behavior changes. This shows, first, that longitudinal analysis is necessary if one aims to assess selection and influence processes. Second, the sequence of changes in the network and the behavior represents the mutual dependence between network dynamics and behavior dynamics. It is, therefore, necessary to examine behavior and network dynamics simultaneously, using a method that is capable of accounting for this simultane...

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Section: Dynamics In Network and A Range Of Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Network–Behavior Dynamics

Veenstra

Dijkstra

Steglich

et al. 2013

J of Research on Adolesc

270

340

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“…Early studies on socialization already made clear that children are never socialized merely by their family environment (Alwin, Cohen, and Manja Coopmans, Tanja van der Lippe & Marcel Lubbers 750 Newcomb 1991;Parsons and Bales 1956). Throughout adolescence and early adulthood, peersfriends at school in particularhave been found to influence a wide variety of attitudes and behaviours (Brechwald and Prinstein 2011;Dahl and Van Zalk 2014). One of the main mechanisms through which peer influence takes place is communication.…”

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What is ‘needed’ to keep remembering? War‐specific communication, parental exemplar behaviour and participation in national commemorations

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Given the abundance of literature on collective memory practices, there is relatively little empirical research on the socialization processes explaining the transmission of such practices. This article examines to what extent war‐specific communication and parental exemplar behaviour function as a link between the collected memories of individuals and society's collective memory. Utilizing data from an online survey conducted in 2014, we focus on participation in the activities organized on Remembrance Day and Liberation Day in the Netherlands in remembrance of the Second World War. We distinguish between public and private practices. Our findings highlight that different forms of socialization substitute for one another. Whereas communication with non‐relatives is particularly relevant for those communicating less frequently with parents about past war experiences, parental exemplar behaviour, such as participating in the two‐minute silence on Remembrance Day, plays a bigger role amongst those with lower levels of communication with either relatives or non‐relatives.

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“…Numerous interactional processes and relationship factors have been shown to contribute to peer group influence on school misconduct and to deviant and illegal behavior more broadly (Dahl & van Zalk, 2013;Dishion & Dodge, 2005). Positive reinforcement of deviant behavior by close friends supports children's and adolescents' deviant behaviors based on observations of deviancy training (Dishion, Spracklen, Andrews, & Patterson, 1996;Snyder et al, 2008).…”

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Peer Groups as a Context for School Misconduct: The Moderating Role of Group Interactional Style

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Peer group interactional style was examined as a moderator of the relation between peer group school misconduct and group members' school misconduct. Participants were 705 students (M = 11.59 years, SD = 1.37) in 148 peer groups. Children reported on their school misconduct in fall and spring. In the winter, group members were observed in a limited-resource task and a group conversation task, and negative and positive group interactional styles were assessed. Multilevel modeling indicated that membership in groups that were higher on school misconduct predicted greater school misconduct only when the groups were high on negative or low on positive interactional style. Results suggest that negative laughter and a coercive interactional style may intensify group effects on children's misconduct.

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Peer Networks and the Development of Illegal Political Behavior Among Adolescents

Cited by 27 publications

References 36 publications

Network–Behavior Dynamics

Network–Behavior Dynamics

What is ‘needed’ to keep remembering? War‐specific communication, parental exemplar behaviour and participation in national commemorations

Peer Groups as a Context for School Misconduct: The Moderating Role of Group Interactional Style

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