What We Know About Peer Relationships
Beginning with puberty, adolescents spend increasingly more time with peers. Both platonic and romantic peers have been found to significantly influence adolescents’ attitudes and behaviors around dating, relationships, and sexual behavior.
Listed here are selected scholarly articles about peer relationships.
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A Checklist for Putting Positive Youth Development Characteristics into Action in Teen Pregnancy Prevention programs
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A checklist for practitioners to assess how/whether their program integrates positive youth development and how to improve it. Includes selected related resources. By OAH
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Adolescent Intimacy Revisited
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Results highlight the importance of considering a developmental timetable for the maturation of relationships and social skills, as well as the need to acknowledge individual variability in patterns of friendship intimacy.
- By Shulman, S., Laursen, B., et al. (1997)
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Adolescent peer relations, friendships, and romantic relationships: do they predict social anxiety and depression?
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- By La Greca, A. M., & Harrison, A. M. (2005)
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Adolescents' and their friends' health-risk behavior: factors that alter or add to peer influence.
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- By Prinstein, M. J., Boergers, J., et al. (2001)
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Co-Rumination mediates contagion of internalizing symptoms within youths' friendships
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- By Schwartz-Mette, R. A., & Rose, A. J. (2012)
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Family and Friend Influence on Urban-Dwelling American Indian Adolescent Girls' Sexual Risk Behavior
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- By Saftner, M. A. (2015)
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Friends First? The Peer Network Origins of Adolescent Dating
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Evidence that romantic relationships create bridges in friendship networks heightens their importance for the diffusion of health-risk behaviors, and should spark future research focused on the social contexts of adolescent romance and behavioral change.
- By Kreager, D. A., Molloy, L. E., et al. (2016)
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Friends' Influence on Adolescents' First Sexual Intercourse
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Programs focused on delaying teenage sexual intercourse should address norms for sexual behavior among adolescents' close friends.
- By Sieving, R. E., Eisenberg, M. E., et al. (2006)
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Gay-Straight Alliances, Social Justice Involvement, and School Victimization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Youth: Implications for School Well-Being and Plans to Vote
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- By Toomey, R. B., & Russell, S. T. (2013)
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Gender Spectrum
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High School Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and Young Adult Well-Being: An Examination of GSA Presence, Participation, and Perceived Effectiveness
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- By Toomey, R. B., Ryan, C., et al. (2011)
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Improving the paradigm of approaches to adolescent sexual and reproductive health
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Suggests an approach grounded in the principles of positive youth development to reduce risk factors and improve the protective factors that contribute to adolescents’ successful and healthy transition into adulthood.
- By Plourde, K. F., Fischer, S., et al. (2016)
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Longitudinal Associations Between Seuxal Communication with Friends and Sexual Behaviors Through Percieved Sexual Peer Norms
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By Nogueira Avelar e Silva, R., Raat, H., Reitz, E., Plat, M., Deković, M., & Van De Bongardt, D. (2019)
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Multiple dimensions of peer influence in adolescent romantic and sexual relationships-a descriptive qualitative perspective
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Youth described that platonic peers (friends) influenced their relationships and sexual behavior including pressuring friends into relationships, establishing relationships as currency for popularity and social status, and creating relationship norm and expectations.
- By Suleiman, A. B., & Deardorff, J. (2015)
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Peer Rejection as a Precursor of Romantic Dysfunction in Adolescence: Can Friendships Protect?
- By Schacter, H. L., Lessard, L. M., & Juvonen, J. (2019)
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Predictors of Early Initiation of Sexual Intercourse Among High-Risk Adolescents
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- By French, D. C., & Dishion, T. J. (2003)
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Sexual Communication Between Early Adolescents and Their Dating Partners, Parents, and Best Friends
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- By Widman, L., Choukas-Bradley, S., et al. (2014)
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Sexual risk, substance use, mental health, and trauma experiences of gang-involved homeless youth
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- By Petering, R. (2016)
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Sibling Influence on Mexican-Origin Adolescents' Deviant and Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Sibling Modeling
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- By Whiteman, S. D., Zeiders, K. H., et al. (2014)
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Teens, Technology and Friendship
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By Lenhart, A., Smith, A., Anderson, M., Duggan, M. & Perrin, A. (2015)
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The Influence of Dating Relationships on Friendship Networks, Identity Development and Delinquency
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- By Seffrin, P. M., Giordano, P. C., et al. (2009)
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The quality of adolescent friendships: long-term effects?
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Adolescents who reported greater levels of intimacy with friends do not, as adults, indicate that they have significantly higher self-esteem, better relations with their parents, or increased marital satisfaction.
- By Giordano, P. C., Cernkovich, S. A., et al. (1998)
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The quality of peer relationships among children exposed to family violence.
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- By McCloskey, L. A., & Stuewig, J. (2001)
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The Social Environment and Childbearing Expectations: Implications for Strengh-Based Sexual Health Interventions for Latino Youth
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- By vanDommelen-Gonzalez, E., Deardorff, J., et al. (2016)
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Urban American Indian Adolescent Girls: Framing Sexual Risk Behavior
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- By Saftner, M. A., et al. (2015)
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Violence Exposure and Teen Dating Violence Among African American Youth
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- By Black, B. M., Chido, L. M., et al. (2014)
