teens who selected peers with more prosocial behavioral profiles. The findings of this study, then, indicate likely risks for susceptibility to peer influence broadly and not simply to peer influence toward deviant behavior. Susceptible teens might be as susceptible to positive influences from peers as to negative influences. Thus factors, such as maternal support, that predict low susceptibility to peer influence would predict low susceptibility to positive influences as well—perhaps reflecting a social context in which the teen was simply more influenced by family factors than by peers, regardless of the type of peer influence.
