Experimentally Measured Susceptibility to Peer Influence and Adolescent Sexual Behavior Trajectories: A Preliminary Study

被引：25

作者：

Choukas-Bradley, Sophia ^{[1
]}

Giletta, Matteo ^{[1
]}

Widman, Laura ^{[1
]}

Cohen, Geoffrey L. ^{[2
]}

Prinstein, Mitchell J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ N Carolina, Dept Psychol, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA

[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

来源：

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | 2014年 / 50卷 / 09期

关键词：

adolescence; sexual behavior; peer influence; susceptibility; popularity; RISK; INTERVENTION; MALES;

D O I：

10.1037/a0037300

中图分类号：

B844 [发展心理学（人类心理学）];

学科分类号：

040202 ;

摘要：

A performance-based measure of peer influence susceptibility was examined as a moderator of the longitudinal association between peer norms and trajectories of adolescents' number of sexual intercourse partners. Seventy-one 9th grade adolescents (52% female) participated in an experimental "chat room" paradigm involving "e-confederates" who endorsed sexual risk behaviors. Changes in participants' responses to risk scenarios before versus during the "chat room" were used as a performance-based measure of peer influence susceptibility. Participants reported their perceptions of popular peers' number of sexual intercourse partners at baseline and self-reported their number of sexual intercourse partners at baseline and 6, 12, and 18 months later. Susceptibility was examined as a moderator of the longitudinal association between perceptions of popular peers' number of sexual intercourse partners and trajectories of adolescents' own numbers of partners. High perceptions of the number of popular peers' sexual intercourse partners combined with high peer influence susceptibility predicted steeper longitudinal trajectories of adolescents' number of partners. Results provide novel preliminary evidence regarding the importance of peer influence susceptibility in adolescents' development of sexual behaviors.

引用

页码：2221 / 2227

页数：7

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