TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency during adolescence in nine countries
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Zietz, Susannah
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Gurdal, Sevtap
AU - Liu, Qin
AU - Long, Qian
AU - Malone, Patrick S.
AU - Oburu, Paul
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Sorbring, Emma
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
AU - Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria
AU - Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean
AU - Alampay, Liane Peña
AU - Al-Hassan, Suha M.
AU - Bacchini, Dario
AU - Chang, Lei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC
PY - 2020/6/25
Y1 - 2020/6/25
N2 - This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) provided data at ages 12, 14, and 15. Variance in opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency, as well as aggressive and delinquent behavior, was greater within than between cultures. Across cultural groups, opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency increased from early to mid-adolescence. Consistently across diverse cultural groups, opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency predicted subsequent aggressive and delinquent behavior, even after controlling for prior aggressive and delinquent behavior. The findings illustrate ways that international collaborative research can contribute to developmental science by embedding the study of development within cultural contexts.
AB - This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States) provided data at ages 12, 14, and 15. Variance in opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency, as well as aggressive and delinquent behavior, was greater within than between cultures. Across cultural groups, opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency increased from early to mid-adolescence. Consistently across diverse cultural groups, opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency predicted subsequent aggressive and delinquent behavior, even after controlling for prior aggressive and delinquent behavior. The findings illustrate ways that international collaborative research can contribute to developmental science by embedding the study of development within cultural contexts.
KW - adolescence
KW - aggression
KW - culture
KW - delinquency
KW - international
KW - peers
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U2 - 10.1002/cad.20361
DO - 10.1002/cad.20361
M3 - Article
C2 - 32964604
AN - SCOPUS:85092681555
SN - 1520-3247
VL - 2020
SP - 73
EP - 88
JO - New directions for child and adolescent development
JF - New directions for child and adolescent development
IS - 172
ER -