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Perceived popularity of adolescents who use weapons in violence and adolescents who only carry weapons
- Source :
- Journal of Youth Studies. 20:1295-1312
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- Prior research has found that persistently delinquent youth or more violent youth were less popular than their less delinquent peers (Young, 2013). However, recent research has also found that weapon carrying is associated with being more popular in adolescence (Dijkstra et al., 2010). The present paper examines the perceived popularity of adolescents who carry weapons in comparison to those who both carry and use weapons in acts of violence or threatened violence. Data consist of two waves from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Analyses use OLS regression with lagged predictors. This paper found no differences in number of friends between weapon carriers and weapon users. However, among both male and female gang members, those who did not use or carry weapons (abstainers) named significantly fewer friends than weapon users. Among females, weapon abstainers both named and were named by significantly more people than weapon users. These differences were not observed for males. Implications of these results and directions for future research are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Longitudinal study
Sociology and Political Science
Aggression
fungi
05 social sciences
General Social Sciences
social sciences
Criminology
Popularity
humanities
Article
Carry (investment)
050501 criminology
medicine
population characteristics
medicine.symptom
Life-span and Life-course Studies
Weapon carrying
Psychology
Social psychology
0505 law
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14699680 and 13676261
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....557153cdac8ae6e06f29e4d854042b5d