Peer Relations and Developmental Psychopathology
Abstract
Peers provide a context in which child and adolescent development occurs. Peers may right wayward developmental trajectories, buffering the effects of deleterious risk factors. Adverse peer experiences also may distort developmental pathways, contributing to psychopathology. Numerous distinct peer constructs that signal developmental perturbations have been identified and associated with indices of psychopathology. This chapter reviews peer experiences in early childhood (i.e., social withdrawal), school‐age youth (i.e., peer status, peer victimization, and friendship), and adolescence (i.e., peer influence) that are associated with psychological symptoms. This chapter highlights developmental psychopathology approaches for understanding transactions between peer experiences and multiple development systems. New directions for research, integrating affective neuroscience theories, psychophysiology findings, and more complex cascade models of development are discussed. The peer context is highly relevant for understanding psychological and even biological functioning in youth. Ongoing research integrates findings from the peer relations literature with research in related scientific disciplines.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The pubertal transition is associated with marked increases in peer interactions, decreases in parental supervision, and more severe parent-child conflict.
“Indeed, research suggests that the pubertal transition is associated with marked increases in adolescents’ interactions with peers, concomitant decreases in parental supervision, and more severe parent–child conflict (Prinstein & Giletta 2016).”
From Adolescent Suicide as a Failure of Acute Stress-Response Systems. (2019) · cites this paper as Prinstein & Giletta 2016
Adolescents may be particularly susceptible to peer influence because the motivation to engage in peer-valued behaviors outweighs logical reasoning that might inhibit them.
“Adolescents may be particularly susceptible to peer influence, as the motivation to engage in peer-valued behaviors outweighs logical reasoning that may inhibit these behaviors (Prinstein and Giletta 2016).”
From Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 1—A Theoretical Framework and Application to Dyadic Peer Relationships (2018) · cites this paper as Prinstein and Giletta 2016
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 359 · Cited by 150
- Authors
- Prinstein, M. J., & Giletta, M.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Tilburg University (NL)
- Venue
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-02-10
- Pages
- 1-53
- OpenAlex
- W2280919299
- Cited by
- 150
- References
- 359
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- peer relationships, developmental psychopathology, social withdrawal, peer status, peer victimization, friendship, peer influence, early childhood, adolescence, school-age youth, risk factors, affective neuroscience, psychophysiology
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
