Peers Influence Prosocial Behavior in Adolescent Males with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Hoorn, Jorien van; Dijk, Eric van; Crone, Eveline A.; Stockmann, Lex; Rieffe, Carolien

doi:10.1007/s10803-017-3143-z

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“…In addition, an important question would be whether peer context can also positively influence behavior of adolescents with MBID. The potential positive effect of prosocial peer-influence has already been demonstrated in experimental study in typically developing adolescents and adolescents with autism (Van Hoorn et al 2016b , 2017 ).…”

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Peer-Influence on Risk-Taking in Male Adolescents with Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disabilities and/or Behavior Disorders

Bexkens

Huizenga

Neville

et al. 2018

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This study aimed to disentangle the effects of Mild-to-Borderline Intellectual Disability (MBID) and Behavior Disorders (BD)on risk taking in circumstances where peer influence was absent or present. We studied 319 adolescents in four groups: MBID-only, MBID+BD, BD-only, and typically developing controls. The Balloon Analogue Risk-Task (BART), in a solo or peer condition, was used as a proxy of real-life risk-taking. Results show a significant main effect of BART condition. Post-hoc tests indicated higher risk-taking in the peer compared to the solo condition in all groups except BD-only. Moreover, risk taking was increased in adolescents with MBID compared to adolescents without MBID, but only under peer-influence. No main or interaction effects with BD were observed. Model based decomposition of BART performance in underlying processes showed that the MBID related increase in risk-taking under peer-influence was mainly related to increased risk-taking propensity, and in the MBID-only group also to increased safety estimates and increased confidence in these safety estimates. The present study shows that risk-taking in MBID may be better explained by low intellectual functioning than by comorbid BD, and may not originate in increased risk taking per se, but may rather be related to risk-taking under peer-influence, which is a complex, multifaceted risk-taking context. Therefore, interventions to decrease risk-taking by adolescents with MBID that specifically target peer-influence may be successful.

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Peer-Influence on Risk-Taking in Male Adolescents with Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disabilities and/or Behavior Disorders

Bexkens

Huizenga

Neville

et al. 2018

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…The literature has called for more research with autistic girls (Van Hoorn et al, 2017) as autistic girls (and women) are under-represented in the literature. Van Hoorn et al (2017) purposefully excluded girls from their sample, but one of the goals of this research was to include as high a proportion of autistic girls as possible.…”

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“…Given that this is an individual difference that operates only in the presence of perceived peer influence, we do not hypothesise that autistic adolescents will show reduced resistance to peer influence. Previous studies have shown distinct patterns of findings when they have looked at autistic and typically developing participants compared to when they have looked at associations with continuous autistic traits (e.g., Yafai et al, 2014;Van Hoorn et al, 2017). Accordingly, as well as looking at the diagnostic group we will also include autistic traits in our analysis.…”

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Autistic traits, adolescence, and anti-social peer pressure

Verrier¹,

Halton²,

Robinson³

2020

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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The potential role of autism as a moderator of conformity has recently been investigated by a small number of studies. However, as yet, no consensus has emerged as to whether autism or autistic traits can moderate the degree to which people attend to and are influenced by social pressure, nor whether there are specific circumstances under which this might occur. The current study adds to this ambiguous literature by looking at whether autism and autistic traits are associated with conformity in the context of adolescent peer pressure. participants and procedure A sample of 12-16 year old students completed questionnaire measures of peer conformity (e.g., in relation to smoking, skipping school, etc.), resistance to peer influence, and autistic traits. Approximately half had an autism-related diagnosis, and none had an intellectual impairment. results Controlling for age, gender, and academic ability, we found that degree of autistic traits was associated with reduced peer conformity, while a diagnosis of autism was not. In contrast, neither autism nor autistic traits were related to resistance to peer influence. conclusions These results are contextualised in terms of past research and positioned within a broader model of individual differences and conformity in which autistic traits moderate the degree to which a person perceives peer influence, while resistance to peer influence moderates the degree to which one conforms to peer influence. Possible future avenues of inquiry are suggested.

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“…A similar association of autistic traits and lower sensitivity to peer influence was also reported in a study assessing adolescents within the domain of prosocial behaviour. However, this effect was only observed for ‘antisocial’ peer influence (when peers did not cooperate), and did not hold up for ‘prosocial’ peer influence (when peers did cooperate) (Van Hoorn et al 2017). At the group level, this study found autistic adolescents exhibited equivalent social conformity to neurotypical controls (Van Hoorn et al 2017).…”

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“…However, this effect was only observed for ‘antisocial’ peer influence (when peers did not cooperate), and did not hold up for ‘prosocial’ peer influence (when peers did cooperate) (Van Hoorn et al 2017). At the group level, this study found autistic adolescents exhibited equivalent social conformity to neurotypical controls (Van Hoorn et al 2017). Given the very limited literature on the topic and the diversity of the populations studied (e.g., in terms of age) it is unclear whether autism is indeed associated with changes to social conformity.…”

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Social Conformity in Autism

Lazzaro

Weidinger

Cooper

et al. 2018

J Autism Dev Disord

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Humans are extremely susceptible to social influence. Here, we examine whether this susceptibility is altered in autism, a condition characterized by social difficulties. Autistic participants (N = 22) and neurotypical controls (N = 22) completed a memory test of previously seen words and were then exposed to answers supposedly given by four other individuals. Autistic individuals and controls were as likely to alter their judgements to align with inaccurate responses of group members. These changes reflected both temporary judgement changes (public conformity) and long-lasting memory changes (private conformity). Both groups were more susceptible to answers believed to be from other humans than from computer algorithms. Our results suggest that autistic individuals and controls are equally susceptible to social influence when reporting their memories.

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Peers Influence Prosocial Behavior in Adolescent Males with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Peer-Influence on Risk-Taking in Male Adolescents with Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disabilities and/or Behavior Disorders

Peer-Influence on Risk-Taking in Male Adolescents with Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disabilities and/or Behavior Disorders

Autistic traits, adolescence, and anti-social peer pressure

Social Conformity in Autism

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