Susceptibility to Peer Influence: Using a Performance-Based Measure to Identify Adolescent Males at Heightened Risk for Deviant Peer Socialization

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1167-1172

  Prinstein, Mitchell J ^a   Brechwald, Whitney A ^b   Cohen, Geoffrey L ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Deviant delinquent behavior; Peer influence; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79960441574     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023274     Document Type: Article

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