High peer popularity longitudinally predicts adolescent health risk behavior, or does it?: An examination of linear and quadratic associations

Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 980-990

  Prinstein, Mitchell J ^a   Choukas Bradley, Sophia C ^a   Helms, Sarah W ^a   Brechwald, Whitney A ^b   Rancourt, Diana ^a  

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

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescents; health risk behavior; peer relations; sexual behavior; substance use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CANNABIS SMOKING; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; PEER GROUP; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SMOKING; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 80053027114     PISSN: 01468693     EISSN: 1465735X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsr053     Document Type: Article

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