A brief report on peer influence in group mentoring: A source of peer contagion or prosocial behavior change?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah L. Joseph ◽  
Gabriel P. Kuperminc
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Group Mentoring ◽  
Peer Contagion

Neurobiological susceptibility to peer influence in adolescence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy T. Do ◽  
Mitchell J. Prinstein ◽  
Eva H. Telzer
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Differential Susceptibility ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Versus Risk ◽  
Potential Biomarkers

Peers have a profound impact on shaping adolescents’ attitudes and norms about the consequences of engaging in health risk behaviors. However, not all adolescents are equally susceptible to peer influence. Thus, a question that remains unanswered is whether there are potential biomarkers that index an individual’s level of susceptibility to peer environments. The present review considers emerging evidence on the construct of peer influence susceptibility and proposes neurobiological biomarkers that might render some adolescents more susceptible to peer influence than others. Using a differential susceptibility framework, this chapter discusses how individual variation in peer influence susceptibility interacts with different types of peer environments (e.g., risk-promoting versus risk-averse) to predict shifts in adolescent behavior. This perspective suggests that a heightened susceptibility to peer influence may not only increase maladaptive, antisocial behavior in negative peer environments, but may also promote adaptive, prosocial behavior in positive peer environments.

Peer Influence on Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorien van Hoorn ◽  
Eric van Dijk ◽  
Rosa Meuwese ◽  
Carolien Rieffe ◽  
Eveline A. Crone
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Peer Influence

scholarly journals Design of a Digital Game Intervention to Promote Socio-Emotional Skills and Prosocial Behavior in Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Pamela Saleme ◽  
Timo Dietrich ◽  
Bo Pang ◽  
Joy Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Intervention Mapping ◽  
Childhood Development ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Emotional Skills ◽  
Intervention Mapping Protocol ◽  
Theory Application ◽  
Game Intervention

In emergency contexts such as the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health risk factors affect children and may affect behavioral and emotional problems including anxiety, self-blame, emotional disturbance, and stress. Preventive measures are crucial to address these health risks. Research highlights strength-based factors, such as socio-emotional skills and prosocial behaviors, as important for childhood development and socio-emotional wellbeing. Yet, the initial evidence base shows mixed effectiveness and insufficient behavior change theory application into socio-emotional and prosocial digital game interventions. Additionally, few interventions are designed with a clear process to convert theory into practical game solutions and very limited guidance on the digital game development process exists. This study describes the Intervention Mapping Protocol (IMP) and theory application in the design of a digital game intervention which aims to strengthen social-emotional skills development and promote prosocial behavior in 8–11-year-old children. The method systematically describes the steps of the IMP process in detail to guide future theory-based game design. The results explain the final digital game prototype that was co-designed with continuous input and insights provided by stakeholders and feedback from children. This paper contributes to our understanding of theory application in the design of digital game interventions focused on health and behavior change and provides much needed guidance on how theory and stakeholder input can be incorporated into a final game design.

scholarly journals Anti-Oppressive Restorative Justice: Behavior Analysis in Alternatives to Policing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Worner Leland ◽  
August Stockwell
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Change ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Behavior Analysis ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Systematic Examination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Significant Change

The history of American policing, behavior criminalization, and carceral justice is rooted in racist practice dating back to the 1700s. In addition to racially disproportionate punishment doled out by these systems, they are not designed to support behavioral punishment of harm or reinforcement of prosocial behavior for socially significant change. One alternative to this retributive carceral justice system is Restorative Justice. This paper offers a conceptually systematic examination of Restorative Justice for behavior change, an examination of the functional utility of various restorative approaches, alignment of Restorative Justice with behavior analytic ethics, and suggestions for incorporating anti-oppressive practices.

scholarly journals Dynamic pathways between rejection and antisocial behavior in peer networks: Update and test of confluence model

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Kornienko ◽  
Thao Ha ◽  
Thomas J. Dishion
Keyword(s):  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Peer Rejection ◽  
School Context ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Confluence Model ◽  
Peer Contagion ◽  
Peer Nomination ◽  
Significant Patterns

AbstractThe confluence model theorizes that dynamic transactions between peer rejection and deviant peer clustering amplify antisocial behavior (AB) within the school context during adolescence. Little is known about the links between peer rejection and AB as embedded in changing networks. Using longitudinal social network analysis, we investigated the interplay between rejection, deviant peer clustering, and AB in an ethnically diverse sample of students attending public middle schools (N = 997; 52.7% boys). Adolescents completed peer nomination reports of rejection and antisocial behavior in Grades 6–8. Results revealed that rejection status was associated with friendship selection, and adolescents became rejected if they were friends with others who were rejected. Youth befriended others with similar levels of AB. Significant patterns of peer influence were documented for AB and rejection. As hypothesized, rejected youth with low AB were more likely to affiliate with others with high AB instead of similarly low AB. In contrast, nonrejected youth preferred to befriend others with similarly high or low AB. Results support an updated confluence model of a joint interplay between rejection and AB as ecological conditions that lead to self-organization into deviant clusters in which peer contagion on problem behaviors operates.

Youth, prosociality, and child welfare: an investigation of positive peer influence and youth prosocial behavior in group home care

2021 ◽  
pp. 251610322110533
Author(s):  
Gershon K. Osei
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Group Home Care ◽  
Size Interaction

Only a limited number of studies have investigated the association between positive peer influence and youth prosocial behavior in child welfare. None of such studies has been completed in group home setting for youth. This study aimed to examine if positive peer influence is associated with (or predicts) youth prosocial behavior. The Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) database was used for analysis. There were 875 participants (males and females) aged 10 to 17 who were surveyed in group homes in 2010–2011. A full regression analysis found strong association between positive peer influence and youth prosocial behavior. The main predictive effect of gender was observed to be modestly associated with youths’ prosocial behavior as demonstrated by the adjusted and unadjusted main predictive effects (OR = .67 and .63). There was a significant positive peer influence by group home size interaction and its moderating effect was such that positive peer influence significantly predicted youths’ prosocial behaviors in small homes (incremental ORs of 2.00 and 4.49), but not in large homes. Findings show that positive peer influence informs youth prosocial behaviors in group homes.

Best friends’ preference and popularity: Associations with aggression and prosocial behavior

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 398-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Peters ◽  
Antonius H. N. Cillessen ◽  
J. Marianne Riksen-Walraven ◽  
Gerbert J. T. Haselager
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Peer Status ◽  
Overt Aggression ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
Peer Nominations

This study examined how children’s aggression and prosocial behavior are related to the preference and popularity of their best friends. Participants were 1,953 fourth-graders (52.2% boys). Measures included peer nominations of friendship, peer status, overt and relational aggression, and prosocial behavior. A total of 334 reciprocal same-sex best friend dyads were identified. The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (Kashy & Kenny, 1999) showed that best friends’ peer status significantly predicted children’s behavior. For boys, best friends’ preference was negatively associated with overt aggression, while best friends’ popularity was positively associated with overt aggression. For girls, best friends’ popularity was positively related to both relational aggression and prosocial behavior. The model also revealed high similarity between friends in both preference and popularity. This study highlighted the distinction between two dimensions of peer status in the study of friendship and peer influence in middle childhood. It also demonstrated how individual, dyad, and group characteristics can be integrated in the study of children’s social relationships.

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