The "Other Side of The Fence": A Learning- And Control-Based Investigation Of The Relationship Between Deviance And Friendship Quality. Issue 12 (2nd December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boman IV, John H.; Agnich, Laura; Miller, Bryan Lee; Stogner, John M.; Mowen, Thomas J.
• Is Part Of: Deviant behavior. Volume 40:Issue 12(2019)
• Page Start: 1553
• Page End: 1573
• Publication Date: 2019-12-02
• Subjects: Deviant behavior -- Periodicals; 302.54205
• DOI: 10.1080/01639625.2019.1596451
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0163-9625

Abstract

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.