Parenting, deviant peer affiliation, and externalizing behavior during adolescence: processes conditional on sympathetic nervous system reactivity.

BACKGROUND This study examined associations between permissive parenting, deviant peer affiliations, and externalizing behavior across mid to late adolescence in a plausible indirect effects model of change over time with deviant peer affiliation serving as the mediator. We also evaluated potential conditional indirect effects wherein these relationships may be moderated by sex and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity, indexed by skin conductance level (SCL) reactivity. METHOD Participants included 242 community-sampled adolescents (M = 15.79 years; 48% boys; 66% European American, 34% African American) with two additional longitudinal assessments lagged by 1 year. Permissive parenting, SCL reactivity, and sex were considered as time invariant predictors of repeated measures of deviant peer affiliation and externalizing behavior in latent growth models that tested whether any of the direct or indirect associations were conditional on sex or SCL reactivity. RESULTS Evidence was found for indirect effects of permissive parenting on externalizing behavior via deviant peer affiliation, but only for males with lower SCL reactivity to stress. Additionally, these effects were found on latent intercepts, but not slopes indexing change over time, perhaps reflecting established individual differences in relationships among these variables. CONCLUSIONS Findings are discussed in the context of biosocial models of adolescent development and risk factors that may inform interventions for vulnerable youth.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

• Publication date

  2019-03-25

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/jcpp.13046PMID 30908641PMCID PMC6594887
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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