‘The Other Side of the Fence:’ A Learning- and Control-Based Investigation of the Impact of Deviance on Friendship Quality
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
Deviant Behavior
DOI
10.1080/01639625.2019.1596451
ISSN
1521-0456
Abstract
Utilizing frameworks of social control and differential association theories, this study addresses the extent to which deviance (a predictor) is related to friendship quality (the outcome). Using dyadic data, results demonstrate that the highest estimates of friendship quality come from actors who have non-deviant friends and who also refrain from theft and violence themselves. Shared deviance within the friendship, referred to as ‘homophily,’ harms friendship quality, although it does not mediate or moderate the deviance – friendship quality link. Overall, deviance relates to friendship quality in a way that supports a bonding tradition more than a learning tradition.
Recommended Citation
Boman, John H. IV, Laura E. Agnich, Bryan Lee Miller, John Stogner, Thomas Mowen.
2019.
"‘The Other Side of the Fence:’ A Learning- and Control-Based Investigation of the Impact of Deviance on Friendship Quality."
Deviant Behavior, 40 (12): 1553-1573: Taylor & Francis Online.
doi: 10.1080/01639625.2019.1596451
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/crimjust-criminology-facpubs/166
