Experimentally Measured Susceptibility to Peer Influence and Adolescent Sexual Behavior Trajectories: A Preliminary Study

Autor/inn/en	Choukas-Bradley, Sophia; Giletta, Matteo; Widman, Laura; Cohen, Geoffrey L.; Prinstein, Mitchell J.
Titel	Experimentally Measured Susceptibility to Peer Influence and Adolescent Sexual Behavior Trajectories: A Preliminary Study
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 50 (2014) 9, S.2221-2227 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0037300
Schlagwörter	Peer Influence; Adolescents; At Risk Persons; Sexuality; Correlation; Social Attitudes; Grade 9; Computer Mediated Communication; Health Behavior; Vignettes; Longitudinal Studies; Social Influences; High School Students; Rural Areas; Sociometric Techniques; Statistical Analysis; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Risikogruppe; Sexualität; Korrelation; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Computerkonferenz; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sozialer Einfluss; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Soziometrie; Statistische Analyse; Prädiktor
Abstract	A performance-based measure of peer influence susceptibility was examined as a moderator of the longitudinal association between peer norms and trajectories of adolescents' number of sexual intercourse partners. Seventy-one 9th grade adolescents (52% female) participated in an experimental "chat room" paradigm involving "e-confederates" who endorsed sexual risk behaviors. Changes in participants' responses to risk scenarios before versus during the "chat room" were used as a performance-based measure of peer influence susceptibility. Participants reported their perceptions of popular peers' number of sexual intercourse partners at baseline and self-reported their number of sexual intercourse partners at baseline and 6, 12, and 18 months later. Susceptibility was examined as a moderator of the longitudinal association between perceptions of popular peers' number of sexual intercourse partners and trajectories of adolescents' own numbers of partners. High perceptions of the number of popular peers' sexual intercourse partners combined with high peer influence susceptibility predicted steeper longitudinal trajectories of adolescents' number of partners. Results provide novel preliminary evidence regarding the importance of peer influence susceptibility in adolescents' development of sexual behaviors. (As Provided).
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