Toward understanding the functions of peer influence: A summary and synthesis of recent empirical research

作者：Brett Paul Laursen, René Veenstra · 发表于：Journal of Research on Adolescence · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1111/jora.12606 · 被引用次数：479 · 研究领域：Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression、Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development、Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Compelling evidence demonstrates that peer influence is a pervasive force during adolescence, one that shapes adaptive and maladaptive attitudes and behaviors. This literature review focuses on factors that make adolescence a period of special vulnerability to peer influence. Herein, we advance the Influence-Compatibility Model, which integrates converging views about early adolescence as a period of increased conformity with evidence that peer influence functions to increase affiliate similarity. Together, these developmental forces smooth the establishment of friendships and integration into the peer group, promote interpersonal and intragroup compatibility, and eliminate differences that might result in social exclusion.