Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2020 Feb;32(1):175-188. doi: 10.1017/S0954579418001645.
The confluence model theorizes that dynamic transactions between peer rejection and deviant peer clustering amplify antisocial behavior (AB) within the school context during adolescence. Little is known about the links between peer rejection and AB as embedded in changing networks. Using longitudinal social network analysis, we investigated the interplay between rejection, deviant peer clustering, and AB in an ethnically diverse sample of students attending public middle schools (N = 997; 52.7% boys). Adolescents completed peer nomination reports of rejection and antisocial behavior in Grades 6-8. Results revealed that rejection status was associated with friendship selection, and adolescents became rejected if they were friends with others who were rejected. Youth befriended others with similar levels of AB. Significant patterns of peer influence were documented for AB and rejection. As hypothesized, rejected youth with low AB were more likely to affiliate with others with high AB instead of similarly low AB. In contrast, nonrejected youth preferred to befriend others with similarly high or low AB. Results support an updated confluence model of a joint interplay between rejection and AB as ecological conditions that lead to self-organization into deviant clusters in which peer contagion on problem behaviors operates.
融合模型理论认为，在青少年时期的学校环境中，同伴拒绝和偏差同伴聚类之间的动态交互作用会放大反社会行为（AB）。对于嵌入在不断变化的网络中的同伴拒绝和 AB 之间的联系，我们知之甚少。本研究使用纵向社会网络分析，在一个参加公立中学的种族多样化的学生样本中（N=997；52.7%为男生），调查了排斥和偏差同伴聚类与 AB 之间的相互作用。青少年在 6-8 年级完成了对拒绝和反社会行为的同伴提名报告。结果表明，拒绝状态与友谊选择有关，如果青少年与被拒绝的人成为朋友，他们也会被拒绝。年轻人会与具有相似 AB 水平的人交朋友。记录到 AB 和拒绝方面存在显著的同伴影响模式。正如假设的那样，AB 水平较低但被拒绝的青少年更有可能与 AB 水平较高的其他人建立联系，而不是与 AB 水平相似的其他人建立联系。相比之下，未被拒绝的青少年更愿意与 AB 水平相似或较低的其他人交朋友。结果支持了融合模型的更新版本，即排斥和 AB 之间的相互作用是生态条件，导致在问题行为的同伴传染作用下自我组织成偏差群体。
