a particularly relevant Swedish survey of high-school students, Svensson (Svensson 2003) found males to have consistently higher levels of exposure to deviant peers than females and found that this arose because parents of girls monitored their offspring’s social network more closely than did parents of boys. He also found that the probability of substance use was more strongly predicted by exposure to peer deviance in males than in females (Svensson 2003). Both more frequent exposure to peer deviance and a greater impact of that exposure on externalizing behaviors in males versus females would likely translate into stronger peer influences in young Swedish men than Swedish women.
