Changes in best friendship quality between adolescence and emerging adulthood: Considering the role of romantic involvement

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-237
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Camirand ◽  
François Poulin
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Growth Curve Models ◽  
Romantic Involvement ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Best Friendship

Changes in best friendship quality during adolescence coincide with the emergence of romantic relationships. This study aimed to examine the extent to which changes in friendship quality (intimacy, conflict, emotional support) between the ages of 16 and 22 varied according to four romantic involvement patterns (Late, Sporadic, Long-Term, Frequent) followed during this period. Gender was also included as a moderator. Participants ( n = 281; 61% girls) identified their romantic partners and reported on the quality of their relationship with their best friend each year. A series of multilevel growth curve models revealed that participants in the Late involvement group reported an increase in conflict with their best friend during this period; those in the Sporadic involvement and Frequent involvement groups reported increases in intimacy; and youths in the Long-Term involvement group reported no changes in friendship intimacy, conflict, or emotional support over time. Thus, among youths who reported changes in best friendship quality between adolescence and emerging adulthood, the observed changes appeared to vary according to the romantic involvement patterns followed during this period.

Grief and Best Friendship Among Adolescent Girls

2019 ◽  
pp. 003022281985614
Author(s):  
Ditte A. Winther-Lindqvist ◽  
Ida O. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Best Friendship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Case Stories

This article explores the relationship between grief and best friendship (BF) dynamics among adolescent girls. Based on a qualitative interview study with 10 Danish girls, findings suggest that bereavement affects friendship dynamics in ways that challenge the by-standing friend in succeeding with being and staying supportive. Through a thematic analysis, we identify 12 themes that cut across the case stories, all of which testify to the difficulties bereavement represent to friendship quality and maintenance. Among other issues, it seems like grief is contagious and the bereaved friend changes her way of responding to the by-standing friend in ways that disturb expectations, values, and virtues of BF among girls in adolescence. The general categories found to be characteristic for long-term BFs, that is, positivity, supportiveness, openness, and interaction are all affected by bereavement in adolescent BFs among girls.

scholarly journals Lonely Adolescents and Their Best Friend: An Examination of Loneliness and Friendship Quality in Best Friendship Dyads

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 3598-3605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette W. M. Spithoven ◽  
Margot Bastin ◽  
Patricia Bijttebier ◽  
Luc Goossens
Keyword(s):  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Best Friendship

Social Anxiety and Socioemotional Functioning During Early Adolescence: The Mediating Role of Best Friend Emotion Socialization

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah K. Borowski ◽  
Janice Zeman ◽  
Kara Braunstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Emotion Socialization ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Socioemotional Functioning ◽  
Potential Explanation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Socialization Processes

Best friend expected emotion socialization responses were examined as a potential explanation for the link between social anxiety and youths’ friendship quality and dysfunctional emotion regulation (ER). A community sample of 202 young adolescents ([Formula: see text]age = 12.66; 52.5% girls, 75.7% White) within 101 same-sex, reciprocated best friend dyads completed measures of social anxiety, friendship quality, dysfunctional ER, and how they expected their friend to respond to their negative emotions. Social anxiety was related to lower expectations of support (i.e., reward, override) responses from friends, and for boys, to greater expectations of unsupportive (i.e., neglect, aggression) responses from friends. Lower expected support responses mediated the relation between social anxiety and socioemotional functioning for girls. For boys, greater expectations of unsupportive responses mediated the relation between social anxiety and socioemotional functioning. Findings indicate that social anxiety may disrupt emotion socialization processes within adolescent friendships with implications for youth socioemotional functioning.

scholarly journals Associations Between Sibling Relationship Quality and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescence: Looking at the Case of Twins

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Bekkhus ◽  
Mara Brendgen ◽  
Nikolai O. Czajkowski ◽  
Frank Vitaro ◽  
Ginette Dionne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Sibling Relationship ◽  
Sibling Relationship Quality ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Friendship Relations ◽  
Mz Twins ◽  
The Relationship

Bidirectional pathways between twin relationship quality and friendship quality were investigated in a large longitudinal twin cohort. We examined negative and positive relationship features in 313 monozygotic (MZ) twins and 238 same-sex dizygotic (DZ) twins from ages 13 to 14 years, using latent structural modeling. Results showed stronger stability of the twin relationship quality compared to friendship quality. Positive features in the sibling relationship were associated with increased positive features in the relationship with the best friend a year later. In contrast, no significant association between negative sibling relationship features and change in negative friendship quality features was found. These findings speak to the important role of the sibling relationship in the development of good quality friendship relations in twins.

scholarly journals Communal Motivation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie M. Le ◽  
Emily Impett
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Physical Intimacy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Over Time

In close relationships, people’s outcomes become highly intertwined, or interdependent, over time and across contexts (Clark & Mills 2011; Kelley & Thibaut 1978; Rusbult & Van Lange 2003). For example, young children rely on care from their parents as they grow and develop, and as they become older themselves, they often provide care and companionship to their aging parents. Friends provide emotional support to one another in times of need and share in one another’s joys in times of accomplishment. Romantic partners provide affection and physical intimacy to each other in ways unmatched by other relationship partners. Given that people rely on their relationship partners to meet many of their needs and desires, communal motivation, or care for the welfare of others, is an important component of personal well-being and satisfying relationships (Le, Impett, Lemay, Muise, & Tskhay 2018). Here, the history of communal motivation research is reviewed; the role of communal motivation in building and maintaining relationships described; and the emotional expressions and reactions linked to communal motivation explained.

Abusive head trauma (AHT) outcome at long-term follow-up and the role of elective neurosurgical approach: A report of 22 cases

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Menegazzo ◽  
Melissa Rosa Rizzotto ◽  
Martina Bua ◽  
Luisa Pinello ◽  
Elisabetta Tono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Head Trauma ◽  
Abusive Head Trauma ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

The Second Start of Transformation in Ukraine?

2014 ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Grigoryev ◽  
E. Buryak ◽  
A. Golyashev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Personal Consumption ◽  
Governance Quality ◽  
Political Turmoil

The Ukrainian socio-economic crisis has been developing for years and resulted in the open socio-political turmoil and armed conflict. The Ukrainian population didn’t meet objectives of the post-Soviet transformation, and people were disillusioned for years, losing trust in the state and the Future. The role of workers’ remittances in the Ukrainian economy is underestimated, since the personal consumption and stability depend strongly on them. Social inequality, oligarchic control of key national assets contributed to instability as well as regional disparity, aggravated by identity differences. Economic growth is slow due to a long-term underinvestment, and prospects of improvement are dependent on some difficult institutional reforms, macro stability, open external markets and the elites’ consensus. Recovering after socio-economic and political crisis will need not merely time, but also governance quality improvement, institutions reform, the investment climate revival - that can be attributed as the second transformation in Ukraine.

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