Peers and Homophobic Attitudes in Adolescence: Examining Selection and Influence Processes in Friendships and Antipathies.

Homophobic attitudes and behavior are a widespread problem among adolescents, but what the role of peer relationships such as friendships and antipathies is in shaping these attitudes remains unclear. Therefore, this study examined to what extent homophobic attitudes are influenced by friends' and f...

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Publicado en:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 2229 - 2246
Autores principales: la Roi, Chaïm, Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis, Kretschmer, Tina, Savickaitė, Rūta, Veenstra, René
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Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2020
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          la Roi, Chaïm
          Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis
          Kretschmer, Tina
          Savickaitė, Rūta
          Veenstra, René
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          Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10F, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
          Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, 111 36, Stockholm, Sweden
          Department of Sociology, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG, Groningen, The Netherlands
          Department of Pedagogy and Educational Science, University of Groningen, Grote Rozenstraat 38, 9712 TJ, Groningen, The Netherlands
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        Peers
        Teenager attitudes
        Homophobia
        Adolescent psychology
        Bullying
        Homosexuality
        Attitudes toward sex
        Adolescent friendships
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          Peers
          Teenager attitudes
          Homophobia
          Adolescent psychology
          Bullying
          Homosexuality
          Attitudes toward sex
          Adolescent friendships
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        Attitude dynamics
        Homophobic attitudes
        Negative influence
        Peer influence
        Stochastic actor-oriented models
        Attitude dynamics
        Homophobic attitudes
        Negative influence
        Peer influence
        Stochastic actor-oriented models
      ab: Homophobic attitudes and behavior are a widespread problem among adolescents, but what the role of peer relationships such as friendships and antipathies is in shaping these attitudes remains unclear. Therefore, this study examined to what extent homophobic attitudes are influenced by friends' and foes' homophobic attitudes, and whether homophobic attitudes serve as a selection criterion for the formation of friendships and antipathies. Participants came from three Dutch high schools across two waves (wave 1 November 2014, wave 2 March/April 2015, ages 11–20, N = 1935, 51.5% girls). Stochastic actor-oriented models were estimated for testing hypotheses. The results showed that adolescents adjusted their homophobic attitudes to their friends' homophobic attitudes, but homophobic attitudes were not consistently related to friendship selection. Further, findings indicated that being dissimilar in homophobic attitudes increased the likelihood to dislike cross-sex peers. Together, the findings suggest that adolescents' homophobic attitudes were to some extent subject to peer influence, but homophobic attitudes did not steer who adolescents befriended or disliked.
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