The peer relations of dropouts: a comparative study of at-risk and not at-risk youths

Article Abstract:

Researchers studied the friendship patterns of two groups of high school students, one group with a high risk of leaving school before gaining a diploma, and one with a low risk. They used a peer attachment questionnaire and the Prediction de l'Abandon Scolaire questionnaire with 191 high school students in a suburban, middle-class area. Their findings supported their hypotheses that at-risk students associated more with youths who were not at school and had fewer school friends. One third of the at-risk students had a working friend, compared to 7% of the not at-risk students.

Peer pressure, Peer pressure in adolescence, High school dropouts

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A critique of research on sexual-minority youths

Article Abstract:

It is vital that research into sexual-minority young people samples the wide range of people in this category and then looks at within-group variations. Care must be taken to move beyond conventional paradigms to look at how sexual-minority adolescents resemble all other adolescents and how the vary among themselves.

Behavior, Young adults, Gay teenagers, Gay youth

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Adolescents define sexual orientation and suggest ways to measure it

Article Abstract:

The components of adolescent sexual orientation and the meanings associated with them are identified. Preliminary items to measure sexual attraction were developed based on these adolescent perceptions.

United States, Evaluation, Teenagers, Teenage sexual behavior, Sexual orientation, Teenage sexual behaviour

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