High-quality adolescent friendships may come at a cost for youth with shared deviant values

This study found that the quality of interactions in adolescent peer relationships (such as good eye contact and responsiveness), is related to incidences of problem behavior. Three groups of adolescents representing different histories of problem behavior were observed for this study. Adolescents who had high quality interactions with peers but who also spent a lot of time talking about deviant topics, had higher levels of problem behavior.

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