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As children enter into adolescence, the amount of time they spend with peers increases. Peer groups become the most important socializing influence on adolescent behavior and values and peer relationships serve as a bridge as adolescents move away from their parents and toward independent adult functioning. In industrialized nations, adolescents spend most of each weekday with age equivalent peers in school, and in the United States, they also spend much out-of-school time together. Indeed, diaries and self-reports suggest that adolescents spend twice as much time with peers as they do with parents and other adults, even ruling out time in the classroom (Larson, Csikszentmihalyi, & Freeman, 1984).
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Rohrbeck, C.A. (2003). Peer Relationships, Adolescence. In: Gullotta, T.P., et al. Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0195-4_118
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