TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceived popularity of adolescents who use weapons in violence and adolescents who only carry weapons
AU - Wallace, Lacey N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by [grant number P01HD31921] from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgement is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisel for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health Data Files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from [grant number P01-HD31921] for this analysis. Research reported in this manuscript was supported by the Penn State Population Research Institute which is funded by the National Institutes of Health under [award number R24HD041025]. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Funding Information:
This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by [grant number P01HD31921] from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgement is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisel for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health Data Files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from [grant number P01-HD31921] for this analysis. Research reported in this manuscript was supported by the Penn State Population Research Institute which is funded by the National Institutes of Health under [award number R24HD041025]. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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PY - 2017/11/26
Y1 - 2017/11/26
N2 - Prior research has found that persistently delinquent youth or more violent youth were less popular than their less delinquent peers [Young, Jacob T. N. 2014. “‘Role Magnets’? An Empirical Investigation of Popularity Trajectories for Life-Course Persistent Individuals During Adolescence.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 43 (1): 104–115]. However, recent research has also found that weapon carrying is associated with being more popular in adolescence [Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis, Siegwart Lindenberg, René Veenstra, Christian Steglich, Jenny Isaacs, Noel A. Card, and Ernest V. E. Hodges. 2010. “Influence and Selection Processes in Weapon Carrying During Adolescence: The Roles of Status, Aggression, and Vulnerability.” Criminology 48 (1): 187–220]. The present paper examines the perceived popularity of adolescents who carry weapons in comparison to those who both carry and use weapons in acts of violence or threatened violence. Data consist of two waves from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Analyses use OLS regression with lagged predictors. This paper found no differences in number of friends between weapon carriers and weapon users. However, among both male and female gang members, those who did not use or carry weapons (abstainers) named significantly fewer friends than weapon users. Among females, weapon abstainers both named and were named by significantly more people than weapon users. These differences were not observed for males. Implications of these results and directions for future research are discussed.
AB - Prior research has found that persistently delinquent youth or more violent youth were less popular than their less delinquent peers [Young, Jacob T. N. 2014. “‘Role Magnets’? An Empirical Investigation of Popularity Trajectories for Life-Course Persistent Individuals During Adolescence.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 43 (1): 104–115]. However, recent research has also found that weapon carrying is associated with being more popular in adolescence [Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis, Siegwart Lindenberg, René Veenstra, Christian Steglich, Jenny Isaacs, Noel A. Card, and Ernest V. E. Hodges. 2010. “Influence and Selection Processes in Weapon Carrying During Adolescence: The Roles of Status, Aggression, and Vulnerability.” Criminology 48 (1): 187–220]. The present paper examines the perceived popularity of adolescents who carry weapons in comparison to those who both carry and use weapons in acts of violence or threatened violence. Data consist of two waves from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Analyses use OLS regression with lagged predictors. This paper found no differences in number of friends between weapon carriers and weapon users. However, among both male and female gang members, those who did not use or carry weapons (abstainers) named significantly fewer friends than weapon users. Among females, weapon abstainers both named and were named by significantly more people than weapon users. These differences were not observed for males. Implications of these results and directions for future research are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/13676261.2017.1324135
DO - 10.1080/13676261.2017.1324135
M3 - Article
C2 - 29104446
AN - SCOPUS:85018956401
SN - 1367-6261
VL - 20
SP - 1295
EP - 1312
JO - Journal of Youth Studies
JF - Journal of Youth Studies
IS - 10
ER -