Peer Influence and Selection Impact on Adolescent Aggression: Exploring Nonaggressive Delinquency, Peer Victimization, and Moral Disengagement

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI:10.1002/jad.12501

Zhuoran Tu, Ying Cui, Wen Zhang, Fang Luo

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Abstract

Objective

To investigate the effects of nonaggressive delinquency, victimization, and moral disengagement on aggression at both the individual and social influence levels.

Methods

We collected two consecutive rounds of longitudinal data, with a 6-month interval, from seven high schools in the central region of China in 2016, comprising a total of 2406 valid samples. The Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models (SAOMs), a dynamic network analysis method is used explore the effect in individual and social influence levels.

Results

The main findings are as follows: (1) At the individual level, we found that nonaggressive delinquency and moral disengagement were significantly positively associated with proactive aggression, while victimization was significantly related to proactive aggression but not reactive aggression. (2) At the social influence level, our findings highlighted the presence of a selection effect in adolescent friendships. Specifically, adolescents were more likely to form friendships with peers of the same gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and similar levels of nonaggressive delinquency and moral disengagement. (3) Regarding friends' negative behaviors and attitudes, friends' moral disengagement and peer victimization were not significantly associated with individual levels of proactive and reactive aggression. However, friends' nonaggressive delinquency had a significant negative association with adolescents' reactive aggression, while no significant association was found with proactive aggression.

Conclusion

This study used SAOMs to examine how individual and social factors influence adolescent aggression, finding that individual delinquency and moral disengagement significantly associated with aggression. While friends' victimization and moral disengagement had no direct effects, friends' delinquency reduced reactive aggression, and friends' overall aggression increased individual aggression.

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青少年攻击的同伴影响和选择影响：探讨非攻击性犯罪、同伴受害和道德脱离。

目的：探讨非攻击性犯罪、受害和道德脱离在个体和社会影响水平上对攻击性的影响。方法：选取中部地区7所高中2016年的连续两轮纵向数据，每隔6个月，共收集有效样本2406份。采用动态网络分析方法——随机因素导向模型（SAOMs），探讨了个人和社会影响层面的影响。结果：主要发现如下：(1)在个体水平上，非攻击性犯罪和道德脱离与主动攻击显著正相关，而受害与主动攻击显著正相关，而非反应攻击显著正相关。(2)在社会影响层面，我们的研究结果强调了青少年友谊中存在选择效应。具体来说，青少年更有可能与同性、社会经济地位（SES）、非攻击性犯罪和道德脱离水平相似的同龄人建立友谊。(3)在朋友的消极行为和态度方面，朋友的道德脱离和同伴受害与主动攻击和被动攻击的个体水平无显著相关。然而，朋友的非攻击性犯罪与青少年的反应性攻击有显著的负相关，而与主动攻击没有显著的相关。结论：本研究运用SAOMs分析了个体和社会因素对青少年攻击行为的影响，发现个体犯罪和道德脱离与青少年攻击行为有显著相关。虽然朋友的伤害和道德脱离没有直接影响，但朋友的犯罪行为减少了反应性攻击，朋友的整体攻击增加了个人攻击。

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Journal of Adolescence PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

2.60%

发文量

123

期刊介绍： The Journal of Adolescence is an international, broad based, cross-disciplinary journal that addresses issues of professional and academic importance concerning development between puberty and the attainment of adult status within society. It provides a forum for all who are concerned with the nature of adolescence, whether involved in teaching, research, guidance, counseling, treatment, or other services. The aim of the journal is to encourage research and foster good practice through publishing both empirical and clinical studies as well as integrative reviews and theoretical advances.