Merrin Gabriel J, Davis Jordan P, Berry Daniel, Espelage Dorothy L
University of Victoria, Department of Psychology.
University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Department of Children, Youth, and Families.
Psychol Violence. 2018;9(2):196-208. doi: 10.1037/vio0000207. Epub 2018 Sep 27.
The continuity of adolescent deviant and violent behaviors have serious implications for engagement in criminal activities in adulthood. The current study examined parenting and peer ecologies on the development of deviant and violent behaviors during adolescence.
An accelerated longitudinal design was used to analyze the associations of parental monitoring and peer deviance on the trajectories of adolescent deviant and violent behaviors from Spring of 5th grade through Spring of 11th grade ( = 1,162). A series of multilevel models were fitted to the data using full information maximum-likelihood estimation. Between- and within-person associations were used to test the moderating effects of parental monitoring on the development of deviant and violent behaviors.
Changes in deviant and violent behaviors were evident across adolescence. Support for the moderating effect of between- and within-person parental monitoring on the development of deviant and violent behaviors in adolescence was found. Two cross-level interactions among within-person peer deviance and between-person parental monitoring, and within-person parental monitoring and between-person peer deviance were found, suggesting support for the moderating effect of parental monitoring. Additionally, a significant interaction among between-person parental monitoring and between-person peer deviance indicated that individuals who reported lower levels of parental monitoring and higher levels of peer deviance reported the highest levels of deviant and violent behaviors, and adolescents who reported higher levels of parental monitoring and higher levels of peer deviance reported less positive growth.
The findings underscore the important role parents play in offsetting the adverse outcomes of having deviant friends.
青少年偏差行为和暴力行为的连续性对成年后的犯罪活动参与有着严重影响。本研究考察了青少年期偏差行为和暴力行为发展过程中的养育方式及同伴生态。
采用加速纵向设计，分析从五年级春季到十一年级春季（N = 1162）父母监控与同伴偏差行为对青少年偏差行为和暴力行为轨迹的关联。使用全信息极大似然估计对数据拟合一系列多层次模型。组间和组内关联用于检验父母监控对偏差行为和暴力行为发展的调节作用。
整个青少年期偏差行为和暴力行为的变化很明显。发现支持父母监控在组间和组内对青少年偏差行为和暴力行为发展的调节作用。发现了组内同伴偏差行为与组间父母监控、组内父母监控与组间同伴偏差行为之间的两个跨层次交互作用，表明支持父母监控的调节作用。此外，组间父母监控与组间同伴偏差行为之间的显著交互作用表明，报告父母监控水平较低且同伴偏差行为水平较高的个体报告的偏差行为和暴力行为水平最高，而报告父母监控水平较高且同伴偏差行为水平较高的青少年报告的积极成长较少。
研究结果强调了父母在抵消有偏差朋友带来的不良后果方面所起的重要作用。
