Overall, these results indicate that across the two time points,
female dyad members became more similar to each other in their levels of alcohol misuse (in reciprocal dyads and in dyads that were unilateral at Time 1 and reciprocal at Time 2) and depressive symptoms (in very best friendships), providing evidence for socialization effects.
In the first step, unconstrained multigroup models were estimated, in which all paths were free to vary for male and
female dyads.
Participants were 16 — 21 - year - old same - sex friendship dyads (31 male and 30
female dyads) who performed a peer interaction task that consisted of five discussion assignments focusing on party planning, sexual double standards, condom use, homosexuality, and consensual sex.
Besides these gender differences in mean scores, the APIM results also revealed different patterns in the investigated relations for male and
female dyads (H3c).
Regarding gender differences, we anticipated
female dyads to engage in more normative sexual communication, and male dyads to display more deviant sexual communication (H3a).
In observation studies that investigated peer deviancy training among both boys and girls,
female dyads engaged in deviant talk less often, and were rated as more mutual in the type of talk (e.g., normative or deviant) than male dyads (Dishion, 2000; Piehler & Dishion, 2007), which stresses the importance of assessing gender differences in dyadic peer interactions.
In the second step, the actor and partner effects in the multigroup models were individually constrained to be equal for male and
female dyads.
Finally, observing both male and
females dyads allowed us to compare sexuality - specific peer interactions between boys and girls, and to assess gender differences in the links between these interactions and individual perceptions of sexual peer norms.
In the first model, actor effects were similar for male and
female dyads, Δχ 2 (1) = 0.94, p =.332.
Although we observed that for
female dyads, friends» reinforcement of normative talk was significantly related to experiencing more peer pressure to have sex, the final model (actor and partner effects constrained) explained no significant variance in experienced peer pressure for boys (R 2 =.02, p =.454) or girls (R 2 =.04, p =.387).
Not exact matches
Many of these texts refer to God as the
dyad, the divine as masculofeminine — «The Great Male -
Female Power.»
Study 2 recruited 127 adolescent - parent
dyads (Adolescent Mage 15.30, SD = 2.30; 58 %
female; Parent Mage = 46.01, SD = 11.02; 67 % mothers) and found that parent - reports of the degree to which they are aware of their son / daughter's strengths and the degree to which they encouraged their son / daughter to use their strengths explained additional variance in life satisfaction in adolescents beyond their adolescent son / daughter's own strengths - knowledge and strengths - use.
Participants were 78 mother — child
dyads (41 males, 37
females) from the follow - up phase of a larger study of maternal involvement in diabetes management (see Palmer et al., 2004; Wiebe et al., 2005 for descriptions of initial study).
In our final sample (N = 48
dyads), ICPs were predominantly
female (N = 36
female ICPs).
Indeed, although we did not anticipate gender differences with regard to socialization of alcohol misuse, neither within friendship networks nor within
dyads, results seem to imply that even if both male and
female adolescents socialize their drinking behaviors, they may do so in different contexts.
Regarding alcohol misuse, at Time 2 significant ICCs were found across different types of friendships for both male and
female same - gender
dyads but not for cross-gender
dyads, with effects ranging from small to medium - large (r 2 range 0.22 — 0.47).
Conversely, peer socialization of depressive symptoms only emerged within very best friendship
dyads of
female adolescents.
Two trained coders (one male and one
female undergraduate and graduate student) independently coded the verbal interactions between the
dyads (e.g., words or sentences) in the transcripts.
The bottom panel follows the same format but includes only those partnered respondents whose spouse or cohabiting partner also completed the interview (all
dyads), in Columns 1 — 3 for both sexes combined, and in Columns 4 — 6 for males and in Columns 7 — 9 for
females.
The fact that peer influence of depressive symptoms only emerged in
female best friend
dyads is also consistent with the hypotheses regarding depression related social behaviors (e.g., co-rumination, excessive reassurance seeking) as potential underlying mechanisms of depression socialization.
Standardized APIM estimates of perceived sexual peer norms predicted by the amounts of normativity and deviance during conversations about sex of indistinguishable male and
female friendship
dyads
This resulted in 31 male and 30
female participating friendship
dyads.
Concerning depressive symptoms, similarities at Time 2 were statistically significant for male adolescents in reciprocal
dyads and
female adolescents in reciprocal very best friendship
dyads (r 2 0.15 and 35, respectively).
Similarity in alcohol misuse at Time 2 was higher than at Time 1 for
female adolescents in reciprocal
dyads and in
dyads that were unilateral at Time 1 and reciprocal at Time 2 (ZPF = 4.33; p < 0.001 and ZPF = 3.70; p < 0.001, respectively).
Exaggeration of gender typical patterns in couples with a depressed partner could also explain the lack of significant differences between depressed persons and their partners to the extent that different behaviors are amplified for
dyads with a male vs.
female depressed spouse.
Importantly, levels of depressive symptoms did not differ between
female adolescents involved in very best friendship
dyads and other
female adolescents in the sample at Time 1 (M = 8.06 vs. 7.46) or Time 2 (M = 8.32 vs. 8.27).
Thus, it might be the case that for
female adolescents socialization effects of alcohol misuse found in friendship networks mainly reflect peer influence within certain dyadic friendships (i.e., reciprocal
dyads and
dyads that became reciprocal over time).
Participants included 335 mother /
female - caregiver and child (46 % boys, > 90 % African American; age range 9 — 16 years [M = 12.11, SD = 1.60]-RRB-
dyads living in moderate - to - high violence areas.
The final sample consisted of 205 pairs of same - sex friends (Mage = 18.93 years, SD = 1.31) and 135 (66 %) of the
dyads were
female.
Gender, a factor that distinguished the members of the
dyad, was a binary variable (
female = 1, male = 0) and used to organize the repeated measures into the state space grids (x-axis =
female, y - axis = male).