scholarly journals Internalizing Symptoms and Friendship Stability: Longitudinal Actor-Partner Effects in Early Adolescent Best Friend Dyads

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 947-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Marengo ◽  
Emanuela Rabaglietti ◽  
Franca Tani
Keyword(s):  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
School Year ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Friendship Stability ◽  
Best Friendship ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Over Time

The present study investigated the stability of friendship nominations over the course of a school year as a function of early adolescents’ and their classroom best friends’ internalizing symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, and somatization). Sample consisted of 156 early adolescents (57.1% female; [Formula: see text] age = 12.62; SD = 0.62) involved in 78 same-sex best friendship dyads. We assessed best friendship (classroom) nominations at beginning (T1) and end (T2) of the school year. Results of longitudinal analyses performed with the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model indicated adolescents’ and their classroom best friends’ depressive symptoms predicted lower stability of best friendships over time, whereas best friends’ somatization emerged as a predictor of higher friendship stability. In addition, positive dyadic friendship quality predicted greater stability over time. These findings highlight the importance of employing a dyadic framework when examining the role of internalizing symptoms in friendship stability.

scholarly journals “Would You Be My Friend?”: Friendship Selection and Contagion Processes of Early Adolescents Who Experience Victimization

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1286-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Berger ◽  
Mariola Claudia Gremmen ◽  
Diego Palacios ◽  
Eduardo Franco
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relations ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Prosocial Peers ◽  
Social Network Analyses ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Friendship Selection

Victimization in early adolescence can have severe negative consequences later in life. Friendships are especially important in this time period. The present study investigated friendship selection and influence (contagion) processes with regard to victimization, as well as prosocial and aggressive characteristics of victims’ friends. Using social network analyses (RSiena), we longitudinally analyzed data of five fourth-grade classrooms, including 185 students (56.8% girls; [Formula: see text] age at Time 1 = 10 years old). Results showed that early adolescents who experience peer victimization were not likely to select peers with similar levels of victimization as friends but selected prosocial peers as friends. Moreover, friends did not become more similar over time in their victimization levels. Prosocial students selected similar peers as friends. The discussion highlights the relevance of fostering positive peer relations for targeting victimization and discusses the defending role of friends in victimization situations.

scholarly journals Good Character Is What We Look for in a Friend: Character Strengths Are Positively Related to Peer Acceptance and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 864-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Peer Acceptance ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
Dyadic Analyses

This study investigates the role of character strengths in peer relationships among early adolescents. A sample of students ( N = 339; [Formula: see text] age = 12.84 years, 53.1% female) nominated friends in the classroom and completed assessments of character strengths, the desirability and importance of character strengths in a friend, and friendship quality. Results indicate that the character strengths of honesty, humor, kindness, and fairness were most desirable and important in a friend. Perspective, love, kindness, social intelligence, teamwork, leadership, and humor were associated with higher peer acceptance. Dyadic analyses of mutual best friends suggested that a number of character strengths were also positively related to friend-rated friendship quality. Overall, the results demonstrate the relevance of character strengths for positive peer relationships in adolescents.

Stability of College Students' Attitudes toward Women during One School Year

1975 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Etaugh
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Experience ◽  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Fall Semester ◽  
School Year ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The Stability

A questionnaire concerning attitudes toward the role of women in society was administered once in the fall semester and again in the spring semester to 113 university students. Separate analyses by class (freshman through senior) and sex showed that the fall and spring scores did not differ significantly and were highly correlated. The stability of scores during the school year suggests that a previously reported shift to a more liberal viewpoint with increasing years of college experience may be due more to selective dropout of traditionally oriented students than to changes in attitudes within individuals.

scholarly journals Interactions between Internalizing Symptoms and Urgency in the Prediction of Alcohol Use and Expectancies among Low-Income, Minority Early Adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 9s1 ◽  
pp. SART.S31438
Author(s):  
Naomi R. Marmorstein
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Alcohol Expectancies ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Over Time

This study examined whether urgency, a disposition to rash action under conditions of strong emotion, moderates associations between internalizing symptoms and alcohol use and related expectancies. Data from the Camden Youth Development Study, a longitudinal, community-based study of early adolescents ( N = 144, mean age at intake = 11.9 years; 65% Hispanic, 30% African-American; 50% male), were used. Self-report questionnaire measures of depressive symptoms, social and generalized anxiety symptoms, urgency, alcohol use, and alcohol expectancies were used. Mixed models were used to examine the effects of internalizing symptoms, urgency, and their interaction on alcohol use and expectancy trajectories over time. Depressive symptoms interacted with urgency such that youth with high levels of both tended to have elevated levels of global positive alcohol expectancies. Social anxiety symptoms interacted with urgency to be associated with increasing levels of social behavior alcohol expectancies such that youth with high levels of both tended to experience particular increases in these expectancies over time. Generalized anxiety was not found to be associated with alcohol-related constructs. Therefore, high levels of urgency combine with depressive and social anxiety symptoms to be associated with particularly increased risk for alcohol expectancies that are associated with later alcohol use and problems, indicating particular risk for youth with these combinations of personality traits and psychopathology symptoms.

scholarly journals G × E interaction and neurodevelopment II. Focus on adversities in paediatric depression: the moderating role of serotonin transporter

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bellani ◽  
M. Nobile ◽  
V. Bianchi ◽  
J. van Os ◽  
P. Brambilla
Keyword(s):  
Serotonin Transporter ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Genotype By Environment Interaction ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Genotype By Environment ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Over Time

In a short series of articles, we will review the evidence for genotype by environment interaction (G × E) in developmental psychopathology. We will focus specifically on the characteristics of types of exposure assessed with respect to both their methods and findings. This article aims to review the studies exploring the moderating role of serotonin transporter on the effect of environmental adversities over time, particularly during childhood and adolescence, which is when level of internalizing symptoms and prevalence of mood disorders change substantially. Environmental adversities will not include abuse and maltreatment that have been reviewed before (see Bellani et al. 2012) and child's broader social ecology that will be reviewed in the next section.

scholarly journals Overparenting, Parent-Child Conflict and Anxiety among Chinese Adolescents: A Cross-Lagged Panel Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11887
Author(s):  
Janet Tsin-Yee Leung
Keyword(s):  
Panel Study ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Adolescent Anxiety ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Parent Child

Background: Overparenting is an emerging parenting style in which parents over-protect their children from difficulties and challenges by intruding into their lives and providing extensive assistance to them. Unfortunately, longitudinal studies related to overparenting were severely lacking, particularly on its impacts on early adolescents. Moreover, studies examining the mediational pathways through which overparenting is associated with adolescent anxiety are scant. This study examined the mediating role of parent-child conflict (father-child and mother-child) in the relationship between overparenting (paternal and maternal) and adolescent anxiety over time. Method: Based on a three-wave longitudinal data of 1074 Chinese early adolescents in Hong Kong, the relationships among paternal and maternal overparenting, father- and mother-child conflict, and adolescent anxiety were assessed. Results: Mother-child conflict mediated the relationship between maternal overparenting and adolescent anxiety over time. Besides, a reverse association of prior adolescent anxiety with subsequent maternal overparenting via mother-child conflict was also identified. In addition, adolescent gender and family intactness did not moderate the relationships among overparenting, parent-child conflict, and adolescent anxiety. Discussion: This present study identified that the bidirectional relationship between maternal overparenting and adolescent anxiety via mother-child conflict over time, which sheds new light on the study of overparenting on adolescent well-being in the Chinese communities.

scholarly journals The Role of Best Friends in Educational Identity Formation in Adolescence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte van Doeselaar ◽  
Wim H. J. Meeus ◽  
Hans M. Koot ◽  
Susan Branje
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Educational Identity ◽  
Panel Models ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Over Time

This 4-year longitudinal study examined over-time associations between adolescents’ educational identity, perceived best friends’ balanced relatedness, and best friends’ educational identity. Adolescents (N = 464, Mage = 14.0 years at baseline, 56.0% males, living in the Netherlands) and their self-nominated best friends reported on their educational commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration. Target adolescents also reported on the level of balanced relatedness provided by their best friend. Cross-lagged panel models showed that balanced relatedness significantly predicted adolescents’ reconsideration, and was predicted by in-depth exploration and, in an inconsistent pattern, by commitment. Best friends’ educational identity did not positively predict adolescents’ educational identity. Perceiving a best friend as high on balanced relatedness seems to reduce adolescents’ problematic educational reconsideration, while, in turn, adaptive educational identity processes might foster balanced relatedness.

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