Social Motives Underlying Antisocial Behavior across Middle School Grades

Autor/inn/en	Juvonen, Jaana; Ho, Alice Y.
Titel	Social Motives Underlying Antisocial Behavior across Middle School Grades
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37 (2008) 6, S.747-756 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-008-9272-0
Schlagwörter	Social Status; Adolescents; Grade 8; Grade 6; Peer Influence; Aggression; Middle School Students; Social Influences; Behavior Change; Antisocial Behavior; Behavior Problems; Urban Schools; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; Asian American Students; White Students; Racial Differences; Bullying; Peer Acceptance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Status; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Sozialer Einfluss; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Rassenunterschied; Mobbing
Abstract	The goal of the study was to examine whether social motives (social mimicry, mutual attraction, and unreciprocated attraction) predict changes in antisocial behavior across middle school grades. The 2,003 initial participants (55% girls) were drawn from a larger longitudinal study of urban public school students: 44% Latino, 26% African-American, 10% Asian, 9% Caucasian, and 11% multiracial. Analyses of peer nominations and teacher-rated behavior included five waves of data between the fall of sixth grade and the spring of eighth grade (n = 1,260-1,347 for longitudinal analyses). Supporting the social mimicry hypothesis, students who associated peer-directed aggression with high social status in the beginning of middle school engaged in elevated levels of antisocial conduct during the second year in the new school. Additionally, unreciprocated attraction toward peers who bully others in the beginning of middle school was related to increased antisocial behavior in the last year of middle school. No support was obtained for the mutual attraction hypothesis. The findings provide insights about possible social motives underlying susceptibility to negative peer influence. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10