Author ORCID Identifier
Santo - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2057-1519
Bukowski – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5737-3559
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-25-2021
Publication Title
International Journal of Behavioral Development
Volume
46
Issue
5
First Page
372
Last Page
381
Abstract
Social norms are vital for the functioning of adolescent peer groups; they can protect the well-being of groups and individual members, often by deterring harmful behaviors, such as aggression, through enforcement mechanisms like peer victimization; in adolescent peer groups, those who violate aggression norms are often subject to victimization. However, adolescents are nested within several levels of peer group contexts, ranging from small proximal groups, to larger distal groups, and social norms operate within each. This study assessed whether there are differences in the enforcement of aggression norms at different levels. Self-report and peer-nomination data were collected four times over the course of a school year from 1,454 early adolescents (M age = 10.27; 53.9% boys) from Bogota, Colombia. Multilevel modeling provided support for social regulation of both physical aggression and relational aggression via peer victimization, as a function of gender, grade-level, proximal (friend) or distal (class) injunctive norms of aggression (perceptions of group-level attitudes), and descriptive norms of aggression. Overall, violation of proximal norms appears to be more powerfully enforced by adolescent peer groups. The findings are framed within an ecological systems theory of adolescent peer relationships.
Recommended Citation
Bass, E. C., Saldarriaga, L. M., Velasquez, A. M., Santo, J. B., & Bukowski, W. M. (2022). Unpacking the misfit effect: Exploring the influence of gender and social norms on the association between aggression and peer victimization. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(5), 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025421992867
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in International Journal of Behavior Development on February 25, 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025421992867
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Bass, E. C., Saldarriaga, L. M., Velasquez, A. M., Santo, J. B., & Bukowski, W. M. (2022). Unpacking the misfit effect: Exploring the influence of gender and social norms on the association between aggression and peer victimization. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(5), 372-381. Copyright ©2022 Sage. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025421992867