Friends, Lovers and Groups

In recent years, dating and romantic partners have been recognized
as important peer relations within adolescence and research in this
area is just emerging. Peer groups and peer pressure are more well
established areas of research into adolescence, with recent studies
focusing on peer groups and anti-social behaviour.

The book will be the first in a series of three that examines
the latest research in key areas of developmental psychology,
edited by Rutger Engels and Hakan Stattin.

This volume will present four areas of peer research: the
'deviancy training' mechanism of peer influence;
behavioural genetic analytical techniques in understanding peer
selection; romantic partners as peer relationships; and in-school
and out-of-school peers studies.

Autorentext

Rutger C.M.E. Engels, Ph.D., is Professor in Family
Psychology at the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands since 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. at the
Department of Medical Sociology, Maastricht University in 1998.
Since then he has worked for three years as a post-doc and
assistant professor at the department of child and Adolescent
Studies, Utrecht University. Currently, he is involved in
fundamental research on the link between (social0environmental
influences on adolescent and young adult substance use and
delinquency.

Margaret Kerr is Professor of Psychology at Orebro
University, Sweden, and Co-director of the Center for Developmental
Research. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University, U.S.A., and
then completed a post-doctoral research fellowship with Richard
Tremblay at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is an associate
editor of the Journal of research on Adolescence. Her research
focuses on internal and external adjustment in adolescents and its
role in the life course. Her current research interests include
adolescents choices of developmental contexts and parent-child
relationships and their role in the development of delinquency.

Hakan Stattin is Professor of Psychology at Uppsala and
Orebro Universities, Sweden. He earned his Ph.D. at Stockholm
University and has served as President of the European Association
for Research on Adolescence and associates editor for the British
Journal of Developmental Psychology. he is probably best known for
his research in three areas: delinquency development, pubertal
maturation in adolescent girls, and parental monitoring. His works
include an authored book(with David Magnusson in 1990), Pubertal
Maturation in Female Development. In addition to his continued
basic research in these areas, he is conducting prevention trials
to reduce alcohol drinking and delinquency among adolescents.

Zusammenfassung
In recent years, dating and romantic partners have been recognized as important peer relations within adolescence and research in this area is just emerging. Peer groups and peer pressure are more well established areas of research into adolescence, with recent studies focusing on peer groups and anti-social behaviour. The book will be the first in a series of three that examines the latest research in key areas of developmental psychology, edited by Rutger Engels and Hakan Stattin.

This volume will present four areas of peer research: the 'deviancy training' mechanism of peer influence; behavioural genetic analytical techniques in understanding peer selection; romantic partners as peer relationships; and in-school and out-of-school peers studies.

Inhalt

About the Editors.

Contributors.

Introduction and Overview (Rutger C. M. E. Engels,
Margaret Kerr, and Hakan Stattin).

1 Male Adolescent Friendships: Relationship Dynamics that
Predict Adult Adjustment (Thomas J. Dishion and Sarah
E. Nelson).

2 Peer Influence and the Development of Antisocial Behavior
(Lara Mayeux and Antonius H. N. Cillessen).

3 Peers and Adolescent Substance Use (Rutger C.
M. E. Engels, Sander M. Bot, Ron H. J. Scholte, and Isabela
Granic).

4 The Rocky Road of Adolescent Romantic Experience: Dating
and Adjustment (Wyndol Furman, Martin J. Ho, and
Sabina M. Low).

5 Individual Differences in Adolescent Dating and Adjustment
(Brett Laursen and Karen S. Mooney).

6 Three Perspectives on Gender Differences in Adolescent
Sexual Development (Roy F. Baumeister and Ginnette C.
Blackhart).

7 Peers, Parents, and Processes of Adolescent Socialization:
A Twin-Study Perspective (Richard J. Rose).

8 Peers and Problem Behavior: Have We Missed Something?
(Margaret Kerr, Håkan Stattin, and Jeff
Kiesner).

9 Peers Among Immigrants - Some Comments on 'Have
We Missed Something?' (Rainer K. Silbereisen
and Peter Titzmann).

10 Understanding the Place of Place in Developmental
Psychology (William Bukowski and Carolina
Lisboa).

Index.