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Understanding Peer Influence in Children and Adolescents

ISBN: 9781606236475 | 1606236474
Edition: 1st
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 3/3/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the processes by which peers shape each other's attitudes and behavior, and explores implications for intervention and prevention.

Scientists, educators, and parents of teens have long recognized the potency of peer influences on children and youth, but until recently, questions of how and why adolescents emulate their peers were largely overlooked. This book presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the processes by which peers shape each ot... MORE
Introduction
Current Issues in Peer influence Researchp. 3
Peer Influence Mechanisms
A Comprehensive Conceptualization of the Peer Influence Process in Adolescencep. 17
Cognitive Social Influence: Moderation, Mediation, Modification, and … the Mediap. 45
Dynamics and Ecology of Adolescent Peer Influencep. 72
Deviance Regulation Theory: Applications to Adolescent Social I... MOREp. 94
Altering Peer Influence Effects: Moderators and Interventions
Variation in Patterns of Peer Influence: Considerations of Self and Otherp. 125
Adolescent Peer Influences: Beyond the Dark Sidep. 141
Mobilizing and Weakening Peer Influence as Mechanisms for Changing Behavior: Implications for Alcohol Intervention Programsp. 161
Identity Signaling, Social Influence, and Social Contagionp. 181
Underexplored Contexts for Potential Peer Influence Effects
Homophily in Adolescent Romantic Relationshipsp. 203
Peer Influence in Involuntary Social Groups: Lessons from Research on Bullyingp. 225
Indexp. 245
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Mitchell J. Prinstein, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research examines interpersonal models of internalizing symptoms and health-risk behaviors among adolescents, with a focus on the unique role of peer relationships in the developmental psychopathology of depression, self-injury, and suicidality. Currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and a member of the National Institutes of Health’s Study Section on Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention, Dr. Prinstein is a recipient of the Blau Early Career Award from the Society of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a Fellow of the APA Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

 

Kenneth A. Dodge, PhD, is the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and Director of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy. He is interested in how problem behaviors such as chronic violence, school failure, drug use, and child abuse develop across the lifespan; how they can be prevented; and how communities can implement policies to prevent these outcomes and promote children’s optimal development. Dr. Dodge has been honored with the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the APA; the Boyd McCandless Award from APA Division 7, Developmental Psychology; and the Senior Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Health. 



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