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Adolescents' Susceptibility to Peer Pressure: Relations to Parent-Adolescent Relationship and Adolescents' Emotional Autonomy from Parents
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Chan, Siu Mui; Chan, Kwok-Wai – Youth & Society, 2013
Studies on factors affecting susceptibility to peer pressure are not plentiful although this susceptibility has been found to be associated with youth problems such as substance use and risky sexual behavior. The present study examined how adolescents' susceptibility to peer pressure is related to their relationships with mothers and emotional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Parent Child Relationship, Foreign Countries
Why Do Adolescents Gather Information or Stick to Parental Norms? Examining Autonomous and Controlled Motives behind Adolescents' Identity Style
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Smits, Ilse; Soenens, Bart; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Luyckx, Koen; Goossens, Luc – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
Self-determination theory (SDT) distinguishes between autonomous and controlled reasons for people's behavior and essentially states that beneficial effects for individuals' psychosocial adjustment will accrue when behavior is guided by autonomous (rather than controlled) motives. The present study tested this assumption in the area of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Personal Autonomy, Social Attitudes
Recent Findings on Peer Group Influences on Adolescent Smoking
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Simons-Morton, Bruce G.; Farhat, Tilda – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2010
This review addresses peer group influences on adolescent smoking with a particular focus on recently published longitudinal studies that have investigated the topic. Specifically, we examine the theoretical explanations for how social influence works with respect to adolescent smoking; discuss the association between peer and adolescent smoking;…
Descriptors: Socialization, Smoking, Prevention, Parenting Styles
Political Alienation in Adolescence: Associations with Parental Role Models, Parenting Styles, and Classroom Climate
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Gniewosz, Burkhard; Noack, Peter; Buhl, Monika – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
The present study examined how parental political attitudes, parenting styles, and classroom characteristics predict adolescents' political alienation, as feelings about the individual's ability to affect the political system's performance at the individual level. Participants were 463 families that included mothers, fathers, and their adolescent…
Descriptors: Role Models, Political Attitudes, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing
Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Influence upon Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
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Kim, Young-Mi; Neff, James Alan – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2010
A model incorporating the direct and indirect effects of parental monitoring on adolescent alcohol use was evaluated by applying structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques to data on 4,765 tenth-graders in the 2001 Monitoring the Future Study. Analyses indicated good fit of hypothesized measurement and structural models. Analyses supported both…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Drinking, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
The Impact of Alcohol-Specific Rules, Parental Norms about Early Drinking and Parental Alcohol Use on Adolescents' Drinking Behavior
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Van Der Vorst, Haske; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Meeus, Wim; Dekovic, Maja – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: The present study explores the role of having rules about alcohol, parental norms about early alcohol use, and parental alcohol use in the development of adolescents' drinking behavior. It is assumed that parental norms and alcohol use affect the rules parents have about alcohol, which in turn prevents alcohol use by adolescent…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Drinking, Adolescents, Social Attitudes