What is it about?
During adolescence, peers become increasingly important for the development of prosocial and aggressive behavior. We examined how peers may set a norm for each other with regard to these behaviors and whether these norms changed across the school year.
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Why is it important?
We indicated that adolescent prosocial behavior development was associated with the peer norm within the classroom. We also indicated that peer norms of popular youth changed across the school year, which is important for practice (apparently these dynamic norms are an adequate target for interventions) and theory (norms have been treated as quite static constructs so far and this has to change in the literature)
Perspectives
I believe this is an interesting article that takes an innovative approach in examining norm development and its role in individual-level behavior development. We followed adolescents when they entered a new peer context, which provided us with an excellent opportunity to provide a unique perspective on the emergence of peer norms in a new peer context.
Lydia Laninga-Wijnen
Utrecht University
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This page is a summary of: Aggressive and Prosocial Peer Norms, The Journal of Early Adolescence, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0272431616665211.
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