TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Negative and positive peer influence: Relations to positive and negative behaviors for African American, European American, and Hispanic adolescents
JO  - Journal of Adolescence
A1  - Padilla-Walker, Laura M.
A1  - Bean, Roy A.
SP  - 323
EP  - 337
VL  - 32
IS  - 2
N2  - The purpose of the current study was to examine adolescents' perceptions of negative and positive peer influence (i.e., indirect peer association and direct peer pressure) as they related to adolescent behavior. Regression analyses were conducted using a sample of African American, European American, and Hispanic adolescents (N=1659, M age=16.06, SD=1.10). The study found differences and similarities in relation to respondents' ethnicity vis-à-vis indirect peer association and adolescent behavior. Although few ethnic-based differences occurred as a function of indirect negative peer association, indirect positive peer association was not as consistently or as strongly related to behaviors for minority youth as it was for European American youth.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0140-1971
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.02.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -