Family Process and Peer Deviance Influences on Adolescent Aggression: Longitudinal Effects Across Early and Middle Adolescence

Beginning in sixth grade at an average age of 11.9 years, 416 adolescents and their parents participated in 4 waves of data collection involving family observations and multiple-reporter assessments. Ecological theory and the process-person-context-time (PPCT) model guided the hypotheses and analyse...

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Published in:Child development 2012-07, Vol.83 (4), p.1213-1228
Main Authors: Benson, Mark J., Buehler, Cheryl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Age
Aggression
Aggression - psychology
Aggressiveness
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Data Collection
Developmental psychology
Deviant behavior
Ecology
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Families & family life
Family (Sociological Unit)
Family Conflict - psychology
Family Relations
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Grade 9
Hostility
Human aggression
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Longitudinal Studies
Parent-child relations
Parents
Peer Group
Peer groups
Peer Influence
Peer relations
Peer Relationship
Psychological Patterns
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social interaction
Teenagers
Trajectories
United States
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Summary:Beginning in sixth grade at an average age of 11.9 years, 416 adolescents and their parents participated in 4 waves of data collection involving family observations and multiple-reporter assessments. Ecological theory and the process-person-context-time (PPCT) model guided the hypotheses and analyses. Lagged, growth curve models revealed that family hostility and peer deviance affiliation predicted adolescent aggression in the subsequent year. Family warmth played only a minor role in protecting against adolescent aggression. In hostile or low-warmth families, peer deviance affiliation linked to a declining aggression trajectory consistent with the arena of comfort hypothesis. The longitudinal findings suggest a nonadditive, synergistic interplay between family and peer contexts across time in adding nuance to understanding the adolescent aggression.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01763.x