title: The influence of parents and peers on choices made by adolescents.
abstract: Hypothetical situations in which an adolescent was faced with a choice of two possible alternatives, one favored by parents and the other favored by peers, were read by ninth- and twelfth-graders. Subjects were asked to pick the alternative most likely to be chosen by the adolescent in each situation. Responses were analyzed for tendency to choose parent- or peer-approved alternatives. Boys in the ninth grade chose the parent-approved alternative more often than either ninth-grade girls or twelfth-grade boys. Girls' responses tended to remain stable over the same period.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Emmerich