Measures

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This page contains details of measures developed by PRSG members are used in our studies. They are free for use by other research scholars but are not available for proprietary development.

Peer Pressure Inventory
Right to Know Inventory
Adolescent Disclosure Inventory
Social Type Rating

Peer Pressure Inventory

Developed to assess the direction and intensity of pressure that American adolescents perceive from friends in five major domains: conformity to peer norms, peer involvement, school involvement, family involvement, and misconduct. The scoring procedure is included at the end of the PDF file containing the measure.

Peer Pressure Inventory and scoring instructions

Reference:

Clasen, D. R., & Brown, B. B. (1985). The multidimensionality of peer pressure in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 14, 451-468. pdf

Brown, B. B., Clasen, D. R., & Eicher, S. A. (1986). Perceptions of peer pressure, peer conformity dispositions, and self-reported behavior among adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 22, 521-530. pdf

Social Type Rating System

This manual describes the two-phase procedure for conducting social type ratings of adolescents in American secondary schools. Ratings yield continuous or categorical scores indicating peer assessments of an adolescent’s peer group (crowd) affiliation, based on the crowd structure inherent in the school context being measured. This is an unpublished manual. Information on validity and reliability of the STR procedure is available in published articles based on STR data. Additional information is available from Schwendinger & Schwendiger (1985), from whose work the STR procedure was adapted.

Social Type Rating manual 1989

References:

Brown, B. B., & Lohr, M. J. (1987). Peer group affiliation and adolescent self-esteem: An integration of ego-identity and symbolic interaction theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52 47-55. pdf

Brown, B. B., Lamborn, S. L., Mounts, N. S., & Steinberg, L. (1993). Parenting practices and peer group affiliation in adolescence. Child Development, 64, 467-482. pdf

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