1. The Co-development of Friends' Delinquency with Adolescents' Delinquency and Short-term Mindsets: The Moderating Role of Co-Offending
- Author
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Ivy N. Defoe, Denis Ribeaud, Jean-Louis van Gelder, Manuel Eisner, Forensic Child and Youth Care (RICDE, FMG), University of Zurich, Defoe, Ivy N, Defoe, Ivy N. [0000-0002-0072-1276], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Defoe, Ivy N [0000-0002-0072-1276]
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Male ,Impulsivity ,Social Psychology ,Adolescent ,3301 Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Co-development ,Co offending ,Co-offending ,Friends ,Empirical Research ,Peer Group ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Juvenile delinquency ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,School future orientation ,Longitudinal Studies ,Future orientation ,Child ,10095 Institute of Sociology ,0505 law ,3207 Social Psychology ,3204 Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Delinquency ,Latent growth modeling ,05 social sciences ,Peer delinquency ,Legal psychology ,Adolescence ,Health psychology ,Adolescent Behavior ,050501 criminology ,Juvenile Delinquency ,Female ,370 Education ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Switzerland ,10190 Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development ,3304 Education ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
The companions in crime hypothesis suggests that co-offending moderates the link between peer delinquency and adolescent delinquency. However, this hypothesis has rarely been investigated longitudinally. Hence, this study investigated the co-development of friends’ delinquency and adolescents’ delinquency, as well as the co-development of friends’ delinquency and short-term mindsets (impulsivity and lack of school future orientation). Whether this co-development is stronger when adolescents engage in co-offending was also investigated. Three data waves with two year lags from an ethnically-diverse adolescent sample (at wave 1: N = 1365; 48.6% female; Mage = 13.67; age range = 12.33–15.09 years) in Switzerland were used. The results from parallel process latent growth modeling showed that the co-development between friends’ delinquency and adolescents’ delinquency was stronger when adolescents engaged in co-offending. Thus co-offending likely provides direct access to a setting in which adolescents continue to model the delinquency they learned with their peers.
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- 2021