Peer Influence and Selection Impact on Adolescent Aggression: Exploring Nonaggressive Delinquency, Peer Victimization, and Moral Disengagement

This study used SAOMs to examine how individual and social factors influence adolescent aggression, finding that individual delinquency and moral disengagement significantly associated with aggression. While friends' victimization and moral disengagement had no direct effects, friends' delinquency reduced reactive aggression, and friends' overall aggression increased individual aggression.