Megjelent a Journal of Early Adolescence különszáma Social Networks in Early Adolescence címmel, melynek vendégszerkesztői Kisfalusi Dorottya és Takács Károly voltak: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/JEA/current  

Benne két RECENS-es cikk:

Kisfalusi, D., & Takács, K. (2025). Social Networks in Early Adolescence: Introduction to the Special Issue. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 45(9), 1049-1063. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316251347668   

Absztrakt:

Peer relations are increasingly important during early adolescence. Early adolescents spend considerable time among same-age others in school and during extracurricular activities. In these contexts, collective norms emerge, which guide behavior and determine how individuals can gain status and peer acceptance. Social networks shape young people’s attitudes, behavior, and identity development, while behavior and norms influence the dynamics of peer relations. The articles included in the special issue advance our understanding of the role of social networks in early adolescence by focusing on different types of peer relationships (friendship, bullying, collaboration choices in sports) associated with various outcomes (academic achievement and ambitions, aggression, prosocial behavior, self-judgment, social-emotional outcomes, and physical ability) and spanning diverse social contexts (US, UK, China, Germany, Hungary). This introduction to the special issue underscores the significance of social networks in early adolescence and highlights the unique contributions of the included studies.

 

Vit, E., Bianchi, F., Castellani, M., & Takács, K. (2024). Friends Can Help to Aim High: Peer Influence and Selection Effects on Academic Ambitions and Achievement. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 45(9), 1093-1123. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316241273427   

Absztrakt:

During early adolescence, the influence of friends becomes more pronounced. This study models the effect of friends’ academic ambitions on adolescents’ ambitions while controlling for friends’ academic achievement and disentangling social influence from friendship selection using random coefficient multilevel stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOM) on a longitudinal sample of 19 school classes (N = 407) in grades six through eight. The findings indicate that adolescents adjust their academic ambitions to align with their friends’ ambitions and their achievement to match their friends’ achievement. However, their ambitions are unaffected by their friends’ achievement, and vice versa. These results highlight friends’ influence while demonstrating that complex social influence across these outcomes is not evident despite the interdependence of academic ambitions and achievement within individuals. Moreover, the mechanisms of social influence vary across subjects. In Hungarian literature, friends’ high ambitions and achievement drive similarity, whereas in mathematics, the opposite pattern underscores the domain-specific nature of ambitions.