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The Development of Delinquency and Perceived Friendship Quality in Adolescent Best Friendship Dyads

Auteurs: Maarten H. W. Selfhout, Susan J. T. Branje, Wim H. J. Meeus

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 4/2008

Abstract

The present study examines both the unique and the combined role of best friends’ delinquency and perceived friendship quality in the development of adolescent delinquency. Questionnaire data were gathered from 435 Dutch adolescent best friends (mean age at first wave = 12.97) over a period of 5 years with annual assessments. Results showed that mean levels of delinquency and perceived friendship quality increased over time. Adolescent best friends were highly similar in both mean levels and changes in delinquency over time. For boys, similarity in mean level delinquency between best friends was higher than for girls. In addition, only for boys, friends’ delinquency is associated with increases in adolescent delinquency over time, and adolescents’ delinquency is associated with increases in friends’ delinquency over time. No bidirectional longitudinal associations were found between perceived friendship quality and adolescent delinquency. No interaction effects between friendship quality and friends’ delinquency on adolescent delinquency were found. Thus, findings were more in support of the differential association theory than of the social control theory.

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To control for the so-called stereotype effect, that is, similarity between individuals because of shared cultural values, social desirability, and response biases (Cohen 1977; Luo and Klohnen 2005), we compared all associations of delinquency between best friends to corresponding associations between random dyads and test whether associations between friends are higher than between random dyads. Results showed that all random adolescents’ intercept and slopes of delinquency were not significantly associated with adolescents’ intercepts and slopes of delinquency. Moreover, multigroup tests of models of best friends and models of random dyads showed that all significant correlations between friends were significantly different (p < 0.05) from the same correlations between random dyads. This indicates that these associations found between friends are unique to the best friendship, and are not due to the stereotype effect.

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Titel: The Development of Delinquency and Perceived Friendship Quality in Adolescent Best Friendship Dyads
Auteurs: Maarten H. W. Selfhout
Susan J. T. Branje
Wim H. J. Meeus
Publicatiedatum: 01-05-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 4/2008
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9193-5

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