Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5): 535-543.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.05.03

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The Relationship between Peer Status and Risk-Taking Behavior of Adolescents:A Moderated Mediating Model

TIAN Lumei, YUAN Jingchi, LIU Lu, LIU Lingling   

  1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • Online:2017-09-15 Published:2017-09-15

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Abstract: To explore the mechanism of the relationship between peer status and risk-taking behavior of adolescents, the present study proposed and examined a moderated mediating model in which deviant peer affiliation mediates the above-mentioned relationship and this mediating effect was moderated by individual's self-control ability, with a sample of 1288 middle school and high school students (mean age=14.99 years, SD=2.20) as participants. The participants completed the Peer Nomination Questionnaire, Middle School Students' Self-Control Ability Questionnaire, Peer Group Character Questionnaire and Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior Questionnaire. The SEM results showed that (1) deviant peer affiliation mediated the relationship between peer status and adolescent risk-taking behavior. (2) The effect of deviant peer affiliation on adolescent risk-taking behavior was moderated by self-control ability. Specifically, deviant peer affiliation significantly and positively predicted adolescent risk-taking behavior for those adolescents with low levels of self-control, whereas it had no obvious effect on this kind of behavior for those with high levels of self-control. These findings suggest that both poor peer status and more deviant peer affiliation were risk factors for adolescent risk-taking behavior, but high levels of self-control could at least buffer the negative effect of deviant peer affiliation on adolescent risk-taking behavior.

Key words: risk-taking behavior, peer status, deviant peer affiliation, self-control ability, adolescents

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  • B844

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