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. 2020 Aug;24(8):585-587.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.001. Epub 2020 May 8.

Peer Influence in Adolescence: Public-Health Implications for COVID-19

Jack L Andrews  1 , Lucy Foulkes  1 , Sarah-Jayne Blakemore  2
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Peer Influence in Adolescence: Public-Health Implications for COVID-19

Jack L Andrews et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in the widespread implementation of social distancing measures. Adhering to social distancing may be particularly challenging for adolescents, for whom interaction with peers is especially important. We argue that young people's capacity to encourage each other to observe social distancing rules should be harnessed.

Keywords: COVID-19; adolescence; peer influence; public health.

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Reduced Bullying Rates Following a Peer-Led Intervention. The distribution of disciplinary events in control schools and treatment schools (who received the peer-led intervention), taken from [12]. The average number of times each student was disciplined for peer conflict is shown from dark blue (little conflict) to dark orange (high conflict). There is a higher concentration of dark-orange events (high conflict) in the control schools. Red nodes are representative of students disciplined for conflict and are scaled to the number of times they were disciplined across the school year.
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