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Put in Context: Adolescents’ Experiences of and Reactions to Parental Peer Management

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Part of the book series: Advances in Immigrant Family Research ((ADIMFAMRES,volume 1))

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As children reach adolescence, their social worlds shift and they start spending more time with peers away from home. It is easy to see how this process can make parents worry that their adolescent will get in touch with the wrong peers. Previous findings suggest that one of the goals of parents with regard to their adolescents’ peer relations is to keep them from coming into contact with deviant peers. By supervising their adolescents’ actions, and providing rules for peer interactions, parents can help their adolescent to avoid peers who they feel are bad influences. However, not much attention has been paid to how adolescents experience these attempts and how they react to them.

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  1. Center for Developmental Research, Örebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, SE-70182, Örebro, Sweden

    Ylva Svensson

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  1. Tilburg University, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Radosveta Dimitrova

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    Michael Bender

  3. Tilburg University, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Fons van de Vijver

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Svensson, Y. (2014). Put in Context: Adolescents’ Experiences of and Reactions to Parental Peer Management. In: Dimitrova, R., Bender, M., van de Vijver, F. (eds) Global Perspectives on Well-Being in Immigrant Families. Advances in Immigrant Family Research, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9129-3_9

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