Utrecht University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Research Centre Adolescent Development, PO Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Child Dev. 2012 Mar-Apr;83(2):651-66. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01701.x. Epub 2011 Dec 19.
Spending leisure time with deviant peers may have strong influences on adolescents' delinquency. The current 3-wave multi-informant study examined how parental control and parental prohibition of friendships relate to these undesirable peer influences. To this end, annual questionnaires were administered to 497 Dutch youths (283 boys, mean age = 13 years at baseline), their best friends, and both parents. Cross-lagged panel analyses revealed strong longitudinal links from contacts with deviant peers to adolescent delinquency, but not vice versa. Parent-reported prohibition of friendships positively predicted contacts with deviant peers and indirectly predicted higher adolescent delinquency. Similar indirect effects were not found for parental control. The results suggest that forbidden friends may become "forbidden fruit," leading to unintended increases in adolescents' own delinquency.
与不良同伴共度闲暇时间可能会对青少年的犯罪行为产生强烈影响。本项为期 3 波的多 informant 研究检验了父母控制和父母禁止友谊如何与这些不良同伴影响相关。为此，对 497 名荷兰青少年（283 名男孩，基线时的平均年龄为 13 岁）、他们最好的朋友及其父母进行了年度问卷调查。交叉滞后面板分析显示，与不良同伴的接触与青少年犯罪之间存在很强的纵向联系，但反之则不然。父母报告的禁止友谊与与不良同伴的接触呈正相关，并间接地预示着青少年犯罪率升高。对于父母控制，没有发现类似的间接影响。研究结果表明，被禁止的朋友可能会成为“禁果”，导致青少年自身犯罪率意外上升。
