Social Network Centrality and Leadership Status: Links with Problem Behaviors and Tests of Gender Differences

Autor/inn/en	Lansford, Jennifer E.; Costanzo, Philip R.; Grimes, Christina; Putallaz, Martha; Miller, Shari; Malone, Patrick S.
Titel	Social Network Centrality and Leadership Status: Links with Problem Behaviors and Tests of Gender Differences
Quelle	In: Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 55 (2009) 1, S.1-25 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-930X
Schlagwörter	Females; Peer Relationship; Peer Groups; Cognitive Mapping; Peer Influence; Social Networks; Gender Differences; Grade 7; Social Cognition; Student Behavior; Questionnaires; Substance Abuse; Aggression; Group Dynamics; Adolescents; Magnet Schools; Peer Acceptance; Sociometric Techniques; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Peer-Beziehungen; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Geschlechterkonflikt; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; Soziale Kognition; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Fragebogen; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Gruppendynamik; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Soziometrie
Abstract	Seventh-grade students (N = 324) completed social cognitive maps to identify peer groups and peer group leaders, sociometric nominations to describe their peers' behaviors, and questionnaires to assess their own behaviors. Peer group members resembled one another in levels of direct and indirect aggression and substance use; girls' cliques were more behaviorally homogenous than were boys' cliques. On average, leaders (especially if they were boys) were perceived as engaging in more problem behaviors than were nonleaders. In girls' cliques, peripheral group members were more similar to their group leader on indirect aggression than were girls who were more central to the clique. Peer leaders perceived themselves as being more able to influence peers but did not differ from nonleaders in their perceived susceptibility to peer influence. The findings contribute to our understanding of processes through which influence may occur in adolescent peer groups. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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