Engels / Kerr / Stattin Friends, Lovers and Groups

Key Relationships in Adolescence
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-470-02985-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Hot Topics in Developmental Research - A Series of Three Edited Volumes

In recent years, dating and romantic partners have been recognizedas important peer relations within adolescence and research in thisarea is just emerging. Peer groups and peer pressure are more wellestablished areas of research into adolescence, with recent studiesfocusing on peer groups and anti-social behaviour.
The book will be the first in a series of three that examinesthe latest research in key areas of developmental psychology,edited by Rutger Engels and Hakan Stattin.
This volume will present four areas of peer research: the'deviancy training' mechanism of peer influence;behavioural genetic analytical techniques in understanding peerselection; romantic partners as peer relationships; and in-schooland out-of-school peers studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engels, Rutger C. M. E.

Kerr, Margaret

Stattin, Håkan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors.
Contributors.
Introduction and Overview (Rutger C. M. E. Engels,Margaret Kerr, and Hakan Stattin).
1 Male Adolescent Friendships: Relationship Dynamics thatPredict Adult Adjustment (Thomas J. Dishion and SarahE. Nelson).
2 Peer Influence and the Development of Antisocial Behavior(Lara Mayeux and Antonius H. N. Cillessen).
3 Peers and Adolescent Substance Use (Rutger C.M. E. Engels, Sander M. Bot, Ron H. J. Scholte, and IsabelaGranic).
4 The Rocky Road of Adolescent Romantic Experience: Datingand Adjustment (Wyndol Furman, Martin J. Ho, andSabina M. Low).
5 Individual Differences in Adolescent Dating and Adjustment(Brett Laursen and Karen S. Mooney).
6 Three Perspectives on Gender Differences in AdolescentSexual Development (Roy F. Baumeister and Ginnette C.Blackhart).
7 Peers, Parents, and Processes of Adolescent Socialization:A Twin-Study Perspective (Richard J. Rose).
8 Peers and Problem Behavior: Have We Missed Something?(Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin, and JeffKiesner).
9 Peers Among Immigrants - Some Comments on 'HaveWe Missed Something?' (Rainer K. Silbereisenand Peter Titzmann).
10 Understanding the Place of Place in DevelopmentalPsychology (William Bukowski and CarolinaLisboa).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Rutger C.M.E. Engels, Ph.D., is Professor in FamilyPsychology at the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud UniversityNijmegen, the Netherlands since 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. at theDepartment of Medical Sociology, Maastricht University in 1998.Since then he has worked for three years as a post-doc andassistant professor at the department of child and AdolescentStudies, Utrecht University. Currently, he is involved infundamental research on the link between (social0environmentalinfluences on adolescent and young adult substance use anddelinquency.
Margaret Kerr is Professor of Psychology at OrebroUniversity, Sweden, and Co-director of the Center for DevelopmentalResearch. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University, U.S.A., andthen completed a post-doctoral research fellowship with RichardTremblay at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is an associateeditor of the Journal of research on Adolescence. Her researchfocuses on internal and external adjustment in adolescents and itsrole in the life course. Her current research interests includeadolescents choices of developmental contexts and parent-childrelationships and their role in the development of delinquency.
Hakan Stattin is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala andOrebro Universities, Sweden. He earned his Ph.D. at StockholmUniversity and has served as President of the European Associationfor Research on Adolescence and associates editor for the BritishJournal of Developmental Psychology. he is probably best known forhis research in three areas: delinquency development, pubertalmaturation in adolescent girls, and parental monitoring. His worksinclude an authored book(with David Magnusson in 1990), PubertalMaturation in Female Development. In addition to his continuedbasic research in these areas, he is conducting prevention trialsto reduce alcohol drinking and delinquency among adolescents.