ArticleJournal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence2020
The Intensity Effect in Adolescent Close Friendships: Implications for Aggressive and Depressive Symptomatology.
Article in Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Effects of multidomain environmental and mental health factors on the development of empathetic behaviors and emotions in adolescence.PloS one · 2023Article
- Beyond Susceptibility: Openness to Peer Influence is Predicted byInternational journal of behavioral development · 2022Article
- Friendship influence moderating the effect of a web-based smoking prevention program on intention to smoke and knowledge among adolescents.Addictive behaviors reports · 2021Article
- Co-Rumination Moderates the Relation between Emotional Competencies and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: a Longitudinal Examination.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study examined the effect of close friendship intensity as a potential amplifier of an adolescent's preexisting tendencies toward depressive and aggressive symptoms. A diverse community sample of 170 adolescents and their closest friends was assessed via multiple methods, and adolescents were followed from age 16 to 17. Results supported the hypothesized effect, with more intense close friendships interacting with higher baseline levels of behavioral symptoms to predict greater relative increases in symptoms over time. Effects were observed for both depressive and aggressive symptoms, and appeared with respect to multiple observational measures of friendship intensity. Findings are interpreted as suggesting that seemingly disparate phenomena (e.g., co-rumination for depression and deviancy-training for aggression) may both be dependent upon the intensity of the adolescent's social connections.
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