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Deviant Friends and Early Adolescents' Emotional and Behavioral Adjustment.
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Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Bukowski, William M. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2000
Investigated whether friendships with deviant peers would be related negatively to the emotional and behavioral adjustment of 305 adolescents, 13 years of age. Found that adolescents with deviant friends were more delinquent than those with no mutual friends or nondeviant friends, and showed similarly problematic depression levels as friendless…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency, Depression (Psychology)
Verbal Abuse by the Teacher during Childhood and Academic, Behavioral, and Emotional Adjustment in Young Adulthood
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Brendgen, Mara; Wanner, Brigitte; Vitaro, Frank; Bukowski, William M.; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Using a prospective design spanning 17 years, the authors studied in a sample of 231 boys and girls the predictive links of verbal abuse by the teacher during childhood to high-school graduation and behavioral and emotional problems in young adulthood, as well as the putative mediating role of individuals' generalized and domain-specific…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Probability, Females, Emotional Adjustment
Preadolescent Friendship and Peer Rejection as Predictors of Adult Adjustment.
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Bagwell, Catherine L.; Newcomb, Andrew F.; Bukowski, William M. – Child Development, 1998
Compared adjustment of 30 young adults who had a stable, reciprocal best friend in fifth grade and 30 who did not. Found that lower peer rejection uniquely predicted overall life status adjustment. Friended preadolescents had higher general self-worth in adulthood, even after controlling for perceived preadolescence competence. Peer rejection and…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Followup Studies, Friendship, Longitudinal Studies
Disruptiveness, Friends' Characteristics, and Delinquency in Early Adolescence: A Test of Two Competing Models of Development.
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Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Kerr, Margaret; Pagani, Linda; Bukowski, William M. – Child Development, 1997
Tested the individual characteristics and deviant peer association theoretical models of friends' influence on the development of delinquency in disruptive boys. Found that moderately disruptive boys with aggressive-disturbing friends were more delinquent at age 13 than other subgroups of moderately disruptive boys. Highly disruptive and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Aggression, Conformity, Delinquency
Friendship and the Worlds of Childhood.
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Bukowski, William M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Examines the historical and conceptual foundations of friendship research. Areas addressed include functions of friendship, study of peer relations and peer systems, associated methodological and measurement challenges, and the study of friendship today. The discussion is framed around the "Harry Potter" (by J. K. Rowling) phenomena. (SD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavioral Science Research, Child Behavior, Children
Same-Sex Peer Relations and Romantic Relationships during Early Adolescence: Interactive Links to Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Adjustment.
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Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Doyle, Anna Beth; Markiewicz, Dorothy; Bukowski, William M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2002
Examined the relationship between early adolescents' involvement in romantic relationships and their emotional, behavioral, and academic adjustment, depending on same-sex peer relationships. Found a negative relationship between romantic involvement and emotional and behavioral adjustment for adolescents who were unpopular with same-sex peers.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development