Middle School Adaptation: Article Analysis

In this article, “Predicting early adolescent gang involvement from middle school adaptation”, authors, Thomas J. Dishion, Sarah E. Nelson, and Miwa Yasui’s purpose of the study were to understand the role of peers in the development of antisocial behavior. This study set out to examine the role of adaptation in the first year of middle school (grade6, age 11) to affiliation with gangs by the last year of middle school (grades 8, age13). The sample and method included multiethnic and urban youth and an ecological framework for the development of early adolescent gang involvement. The participants included 714 adolescents’ six graders and their families, from three middle schools within an ethnically diverse metropolitan community in the northwest