What Ever Happened to the “Cool” Kids? Long‐Term Sequelae of Early Adolescent Pseudomature Behavior

Allen, Joseph P.; Schad, Megan M.; Oudekerk, Barbara A.; Chango, Joanna

doi:10.1111/cdev.12250

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“…Additionally, the association between precocious sexual behaviors and peer acceptance may vary in the short-term versus the long-term. For example, Allen, Schad, Oudekerk, and Chango (2014) recently found that making out was associated with increased peer status during early adolescence, but that the correlation weakened over age. Moreover, they also found that precocious sexual and minor delinquent behaviors were associated with long-term romantic relationship difficulties and increased substance use and criminal involvement.…”

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The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Gender, Sexual Behavior and Adolescent Peer Acceptance

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A sexual double standard in adolescence has important implications for sexual development and gender inequality. The present study uses longitudinal social network data (N = 914; 11–16 years of age) to test if gender moderates associations between adolescents’ sexual behaviors and peer acceptance. Consistent with a traditional sexual double standard, female adolescents who reported having sex had significant decreases in peer acceptance over time, whereas male adolescents reporting the same behavior had significant increases in peer acceptance. This pattern was observed net of respondents’ own perceived friendships, further suggesting that the social responses to sex vary by gender of the sexual actor. However, findings for “making out” showed a reverse double standard, such that female adolescents reporting this behavior had increases in peer acceptance and male adolescents reporting the same behavior had decreases in peer acceptance over time. Results thus suggest that peers enforce traditional sexual scripts for both “heavy” and “light” sexual behaviors during adolescence. These findings have important implications for sexual health education, encouraging educators to develop curricula that emphasize the gendered social construction of sexuality and to combat inequitable and stigmatizing peer responses to real or perceived deviations from traditional sexual scripts.

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“…Several of the cited studies (Luthar & McMahon, 1996; Rodkin et al, 2006) used cross-sectional data, so they could not identify groups that followed different behavioral trajectories or test how the peer acceptance of individuals in these groups changed over time. Other studies (Allen et al, 2014; Cillessen & Mayeux, 2004) used longitudinal data, but focused on changes in the association of between-person differences in antisocial behavior with between-person differences in peer acceptance (e.g., whether the cross-sectional association between antisocial behavior and peer acceptance differed over time). Still others used longitudinal data but did identify individuals who were persistently antisocial (e.g., Dijkstra et al, 2010; Juvonen et al, 2012) to test whether they followed different trajectories of peer acceptance than their peers.…”

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Delinquency and peer acceptance in adolescence: A within-person test of Moffitt’s hypotheses.

Rulison¹,

Kreager²,

Osgood³

2014

Developmental Psychology

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We tested two hypotheses derived from Moffitt’s (1993) taxonomic theory of antisocial behavior, both of which are central to her explanation for the rise in delinquency during adolescence. Specifically, we tested whether persistently delinquent individuals become more accepted by their peers during adolescence and whether individuals who abstain from delinquent behavior become less accepted. Participants were 4,359 adolescents from 14 communities in the PROSPER study, which assessed friendship networks and delinquency from 6th (M = 11.8 years) to 9th (M = 15.3 years) grade. We operationalized peer acceptance as: number of nominations received (indegree centrality), attractiveness as a friend (adjusted indegree centrality), and network bridging potential (betweenness centrality) and tested the hypotheses using multilevel modeling. Contrary to Moffitt’s hypothesis, persistently delinquent youth did not become more accepted between early and middle adolescence, and although abstainers were less accepted in early adolescence, they became more accepted over time. Results were similar for boys and girls; when differences occurred, they provided no support for Moffitt’s hypotheses for boys and were opposite of her hypotheses for girls. Sensitivity analyses using alternative strategies and additional data to identify persistently delinquent adolescents produced similar results. We explore the implications of these results for Moffitt’s assertions that social mimicry of persistently antisocial adolescents leads to increases in delinquency and that social isolation leads to abstention.

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“…As compared to children, adolescents spend significantly more time with peers, experience more frequent peer-based stressors, and exhibit heightened emotional reactivity to peer stress (Brown and Larson 2009; Rudolph 2014). Prior research suggests that adolescents’ peer experiences are prospectively associated with educational outcomes, mental health symptoms, addictive behaviors, and even physical health morbidity and mortality decades later (Allen et al 2014; Almquist 2009; Almquist and Östberg 2013; Menting et al 2016; Modin et al 2011; Moffitt 1993). However, youth are now increasingly turning to social media as a primary means of interaction with peers, requiring investigators to reconsider prior conceptualizations of the peer context (Lenhart 2015a; Rideout 2015).…”

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Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 1—A Theoretical Framework and Application to Dyadic Peer Relationships

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

393

472

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Investigators have long recognized that adolescents' peer experiences provide a crucial context for the acquisition of developmental competencies, as well as potential risks for a range of adjustment difficulties. However, recent years have seen an exponential increase in adolescents' adoption of social media tools, fundamentally reshaping the landscape of adolescent peer interactions. Although research has begun to examine social media use among adolescents, researchers have lacked a unifying framework for understanding the impact of social media on adolescents' peer experiences. This paper represents Part 1 of a two-part theoretical review, in which we offer a transformation framework to integrate interdisciplinary social media scholarship and guide future work on social media use and peer relations from a theory-driven perspective. We draw on prior conceptualizations of social media as a distinct interpersonal context and apply this understanding to adolescents' peer experiences, outlining features of social media with particular relevance to adolescent peer relations. We argue that social media transforms adolescent peer relationships in five key ways: by changing the frequency or immediacy of experiences, amplifying experiences and demands, altering the qualitative nature of interactions, facilitating new opportunities for compensatory behaviors, and creating entirely novel behaviors. We offer an illustration of the transformation framework applied to adolescents' dyadic friendship processes (i.e., experiences typically occurring between two individuals), reviewing existing evidence and offering theoretical implications. Overall, the transformation framework represents a departure from the prevailing approaches of prior peer relations work and a new model for understanding peer relations in the social media context.

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What Ever Happened to the “Cool” Kids? Long‐Term Sequelae of Early Adolescent Pseudomature Behavior

Cited by 50 publications

References 57 publications

The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Gender, Sexual Behavior and Adolescent Peer Acceptance

The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Gender, Sexual Behavior and Adolescent Peer Acceptance

Delinquency and peer acceptance in adolescence: A within-person test of Moffitt’s hypotheses.

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 1—A Theoretical Framework and Application to Dyadic Peer Relationships

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