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Who Does Cohesion Benefit? Race, Gender, and Peer Networks Associated with Adolescent Depressive Symptoms
Adolescence is a developmental period when peer network structure is associated with mental health. However, how networks relate to distress for...
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Shaping Citizenship in the Classroom: Peer Influences on Moral Disengagement, Social Goals, and a Sense of Peer Community
Despite the important role of peers in the social process of classroom citizenship, the peer influence related to moral disengagement, social goals,...
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Peer Influences on (Dis)Engagement in Early Adolescence: the Role of Friendship, Social Status, and Academic Status
Academic engagement in adolescence is shaped by influences from the peer environment, yet the types of peers impacting engagement remain unclear....
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Peer-Friendship Networks and Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Adolescence: A Systematic Review of Sociometric School-based Studies that Use Social Network Analysis
Peers, particularly in-school peers, shape adolescent health behaviors. Yet little is known about in-school peers and self-injurious thoughts and...
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The Social Processes of Excessive Online Gaming Homophily: Peer Selection or Influence?
Adolescents who befriend online game using peers may be at risk for initiated and continued excessive game use (online gaming use homophily). The...
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Entering the Classroom: Do Newcomers Experience More Peer Victimization than Their Established Peers?
Students changing classrooms or schools may face challenges from entering a new peer context without friends and standing out from the crowd as newcomers...
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Theoretical Foundations of Peer Support
The theoretical underpinnings of peer support are broad and come from a diversity of disciplines including public health, psychology, and sociology....
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Leaders of Peer Groups in Chinese Early Adolescents: The Roles of Social, Academic, and Psychological Characteristics in Group Leadership
Leadership in peer groups is an important issue in adolescent socioemotional development, yet it has received limited attention in research. This...
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How is peer victimization related to adolescents’ health risk behaviors? A moderated mediation analysis
Adolescents’ chronic experience of peer victimization may exacerbate a wide range of health risk behaviors and have negative outcomes for families,...
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Cyberbullying Perpetration among Adolescents in Indonesia: The Role of Fathering and Peer Attachment
Cyberbullying perpetration has emerged as a serious problem among adolescents worldwide. Living in Indonesia, a patriarchal country with...
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Socio-Cognitive Processes and Peer-Network Influences in Defending and Bystanding
Peers are critical to defending and bystanding during episodes of bullying. This study investigates the extent to which friends can shape defending...
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It Takes a Hui: Evaluating Outcomes of Family Hui, a Peer-led Parenting Program
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), potentially traumatic life events that may occur during childhood (i.e., abuse, neglect, and household...
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Peer Connectedness and Social Technology Use During COVID-19 Lockdown
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, adolescents relied on social technology for social connection. Although some research suggests small, negative...
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Enhancing Education and Career Pathways Through Peer and Near-Peer Social Capital
Social capital strengthens emerging adults’ ability to reach life goals, but little is known about how peers and near-peers (slightly older and/or...
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Not Next to You: Peer Rejection, Sociodemographic Characteristics and the Moderating Effects of Classroom Composition
While a range of sociodemographic characteristics are associated with a greater risk of peer rejection at school, it is currently unclear how key...
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Peer acceptance influence suicidal ideation through negative affect and rumination among Chinese adolescents: a network analysis and a serial mediation model
Recent studies have consistently supported the significant link between peer acceptance and non-suicidal self-injury. However, few studies have...
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Endorsement of Masculine-Typed Behaviors Decreases During Middle Adolescence: The Contextualizing Role of Peer Experiences for Adolescents Living in the United States
While more research is emerging about the development of masculinity during adolescence, not much is known about how masculine-type behaviors develop...
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How different online self-presentations relate to different online feedback among adolescents: peer relationship as a mediator
Adolescents are likely to use different strategies to present themselves on social networking sites and care much about feedback from others,...
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Peer-Mediated Interventions to Enhance Conversation Skills of Young Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities on a University Campus
Young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) on college campuses are vulnerable to exclusion and a lack of social...
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Lessons Learned from Implementing Sources of Strength: A Qualitative Examination of a Peer-Led Suicide Prevention Program
Schools are ideal locations for youth to receive mental health and social-emotional programming. Despite the well-established need for school-based...
