Social Development Research week 6
PSY/201
August/25/2013
Bettye Griffin
Social Development Research week 6
The title of the article is Society for Research in Child Development; Teens' struggles with peers forecast long-term adult problems. The reason for choosing this article was my curiosity about teen drinking and peer pressure. The newspaper article states News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Vertical News Health (2013) Teens who had trouble establishing some autonomy (choices) and independence with peers (especially with respect to minor forms of deviance such as shoplifting and vandalism) were found to be at higher risk for problems with alcohol and substance use, and for illegal behavior, almost a decade later.
The article talks about how teenager’s struggle to establish a rapport with their peers in the early stages of adolescence, but not getting bad influences that could cause them problems years down the road. Teens who have trouble with getting along with their peers and having their own choices or independence tends to be at a higher risk at having drinking problems, drug abuse, and criminal tendencies later in life. Researchers at the University of Virginia have come to this conclusion by doing a new observational study and is documented in the journal Child Development (News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Vertical News Health, (2013, April 14).
As a topic for a research topic, I would use this article it would be a good resource due to the fact that is of a current date and well documented through a medical resource. For this topic I would also want to use more resource material to validate what this article is documenting about. For my topic I want to make sure my information is correct and validated so my readers know that they can trust my information. The more research on this topic will make my topic more reliable and credible for my readers.
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News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews Health,...