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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Defoe, Ivy N.
• van Gelder, Jean-Louis
• Ribeaud, Denis
• Eisner, Manuel

Titel

The Co-development of Friends’ Delinquency with Adolescents’ Delinquency and Short-term Mindsets: The Moderating Role of Co-Offending

Ist Teil von

• Journal of youth and adolescence, 2021-08, Vol.50 (8), p.1601-1615

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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; M age  = 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.