Opportunities and peer support for aggression and delinquency during adolescence in nine countries.Rome University La Sapienza, Faculty of Psychology , Rome, Italy (ITA).
Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy, Durham, NC, USA (USA).
Chongqing Medical University, Department of Maternal and Child Health & Adolescent Health, Chongqing, China (CHN).
Duke Kunshan University, Global Health Research Center, Kunshan, China (CHN).
Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy, Durham, NC, USA (USA).
Maseno University, Department of Educational Psychology, Maseno, Kenya (KEN).
Università di Roma La Sapienza, Department of Psychology, Rome, Italy (ITA).
Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy, Durham, NC, USA (USA).
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (USA); King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. Saudi Arabia (SAU).
Chiang Mai University, Department of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai, Thailand (THA).
Universidad San Buenaventura, Department of Psychology, Bogota, Colombia (COL).
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand (THA).
Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines (PHL).
Hashemite University, Department of Special Education, Zarqa, Jordan (JOR); Counseling, Special Education, and Neuroscience Division, Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, UAE (ARE).
University of Naples Federico II, Department of Humanistic Studies, Napoli, Italy (ITA).
University of Macau, Department of Psychology, China (CHN).
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2020 (English)In: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, ISSN 1520-3247, E-ISSN 1534-8687, Vol. 2020, no 172, p. 73-88Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 2020, no 172, p. 73-88
Keywords [en]
adolescence, aggression, culture, delinquency, international, peers
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-15943DOI: 10.1002/cad.20361ISI: 000610731600006PubMedID: 32964604Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85092681555OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-15943DiVA, id: diva2:1472516
Note
Funders: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of ChildHealth and Human Development[RO1-HD054805];Fogarty International Center[RO3-TW008141];. National Institute on DrugAbuse (NIDA)[P30 DA023026]; Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD,USA; International Research Fellowship at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS),London, UK, European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020research and innovation programme [695300-HKADeC-ERC-2015-AdG).
2020-10-012020-10-012024-04-26Bibliographically approved