friends as a means of reinforcing behavior -- EDPR 7/8112 Adolescence Sec. 001 0500-0800 R

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Date Posted: 18:19:37 04/04/07 Wed
Author: Jessica Roesch
Subject: friends as a means of reinforcing behavior

I thought that the part of the chapter discussing social comparision and reinforcement was really important. During adolescents the group of friends one belongs to has a tremendous impact on their behavior choices. I thought it was interesting that research indicates that nonsmoking adolescents who became friends with smoking adolescents are more likely to start smoking themselves. Does this mean that adolescents who smoke try to get their non smoking friends to take up the habit, or that adolescents who are predisposed to engage in risky behavior choose friends who are already experimenting with these behaviors (i.e. smoking). It would seem reasonable that non-smoking friends would have as much influence on their smoking friends and would, in effect, cause them to want to give up smoking (of course, this doesn't account for the addictive components of smoking, but you get the idea).

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