Wallace Lacey N
Penn State Altoona, Department of Criminal Justice, 101G Cypress Building, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601.
J Youth Stud. 2017;20(10):1295-1312. doi: 10.1080/13676261.2017.1324135. Epub 2017 May 3.
Prior research has found that persistently delinquent youth or more violent youth were less popular than their less delinquent peers (Young, 2013). However, recent research has also found that weapon carrying is associated with being more popular in adolescence (Dijkstra et al., 2010). The present paper examines the perceived popularity of adolescents who carry weapons in comparison to those who both carry and use weapons in acts of violence or threatened violence. Data consist of two waves from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Analyses use OLS regression with lagged predictors. This paper found no differences in number of friends between weapon carriers and weapon users. However, among both male and female gang members, those who did not use or carry weapons (abstainers) named significantly fewer friends than weapon users. Among females, weapon abstainers both named and were named by significantly more people than weapon users. These differences were not observed for males. Implications of these results and directions for future research are discussed.
先前的研究发现，持续犯罪的青少年或更暴力的青少年不如他们犯罪较少的同龄人受欢迎（杨，2013）。然而，最近的研究还发现，携带武器与在青少年时期更受欢迎有关（迪克斯塔等人，2010）。本文将携带武器的青少年与那些在暴力行为或暴力威胁行为中既携带又使用武器的青少年的受欢迎程度进行了比较。数据来自青少年到成人健康的全国纵向研究的两个阶段。分析使用带有滞后预测变量的OLS回归。本文发现，携带武器者和使用武器者的朋友数量没有差异。然而，在男性和女性帮派成员中，那些不使用或携带武器的人（弃权者）说出的朋友数量明显少于使用武器者。在女性中，武器弃权者说出的朋友数量以及被提及的次数都明显多于使用武器者。男性没有观察到这些差异。本文讨论了这些结果的意义以及未来研究的方向。
