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Peer group membership and a sense of belonging: their relationship to adolescent behavior problems.(Report)

This study explored three aspects of peer group membership in adolescence: peer group affiliation, the importance of group membership, and a sense of peer group belonging. Each is considered in relationship to adolescents' behavior problems as measured by the Achenbach Youth Self-Report. Participants included an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 733 adolescents ranging in age from 11 to 18 years. Girls reported more internalizing problems and boys reported more externalizing problems. Girls also reported a higher sense of peer group belonging than boys. When controlling for adolescent age, gender, ethnicity, parent's educational level, and family structure, a sense of ...

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Table 3 
 
Group Belonging and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing 
Behavior Problems (n = 732) 
 
  Internalizing Problems 
 
B SE B   [beta] 
 
Adolescent Age .40 *  .18.07 * 
 
Female5.03 ***.69.24 *** 
 
Family Education   .01.30.00 
 
Ethnicity 
  White (Omitted) 
  African American   -1.64.82   -.07 
  Asian, Biracial, and   -1.98   1.07   -.06 
Hispanic 
 
Family Structure 
  Biological Parents 
(Omitted) 
  Stepfamily  .68 .92.02 
  Single-Parent Family.83 .86.03 
  Group Belonging (GB)   -.63 *** .04   -.52 *** 
 
F, Prob><.001. 
 
   Internalizing 
Group Belonging (GB)  Behavior 
by Group Membership   Problems 
Salience (GMS)   Post Hoc 
Groups   M   SDComparisons * 
 
1. LBLS   Female   21.28   11.17 
  Male 17.56   11.87 
  Total19.31   11.66 1><1, 3 
 
3. LBHS   Female   21.03   10.56 
  Male 17.11   11.87 
  Total19.46   11.23 3><1, 3 
 
   Externalizing 
Group Belonging (GB)  Behavior 
by Group Membership   Problems 
Salience (GMS)   Post Hoc 
Groups   M   SDComparisons * 
 
1. LBLS   Female   16.859.75 
  Male 17.35   10.51 
  Total17.11   10.13 1><1, 3 
 
3. LBHS   Female   16.109.62 
  Male 17.98   10.57 
  Total16.86   10.02 3>

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