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29-09-2023 | Empirical Research

The Social Dynamics of Fun: Can Fun Youth Bring Peers Together and Positively Influence Their Friends?

Auteurs: Dawn DeLay, Goda Kaniušonytė, Rita Žukauskienė

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 2/2024

Abstract

There is a critical gap in our understanding of how peer relationships contribute to positive youth development. To address this gap the current study uses longitudinal social network data to examine if fun youth were socially desirable, inclusive of peers, and positive agents of social influence during the transition to adolescence. Participants were 210 students (47% female; Mage = 11.55 years at the outset) from 8 classes in 3 schools in a small Lithuanian city. Each child received a fun score consisting of nominations from classmates as “someone who is fun to be around”. Participants also nominated up to five classmates as friends. Fun students received more friendship nominations than their peers and they maintained higher levels of social desirability over time. Fun youth appeared to be inclusive of their peers in that fun youth did not appear to have preferences to befriend only those like themselves. The friends of fun youth were positively influenced such that they were perceived to be more fun over time. The findings suggests that fun youth may promote positive social change within peer groups.

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Titel: The Social Dynamics of Fun: Can Fun Youth Bring Peers Together and Positively Influence Their Friends?
Auteurs: Dawn DeLay
Goda Kaniušonytė
Rita Žukauskienė
Publicatiedatum: 29-09-2023
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 2/2024
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01876-6

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