Trial reportDevelopment and psychopathology2021
The Connection Project: Changing the peer environment to improve outcomes for marginalized adolescents.
Trial report in Development and psychopathology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Components Related to Long-Term Effects in the Intra- and Interpersonal Domains: A Meta-Analysis of Universal School-Based Interventions.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Facilitating connection to enhance college student well-being: Evaluation of an experiential group program.American journal of community psychology · 2022Trial
- A Living Scoping Review of Universal Interventions for Promoting Relational Health in Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- Opportunities to Improve the Implementation of Relational Health Interventions for Children and Families: A Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- Supporting the Mental Health of Peer Support Workers Following a Lethal Shooting on Campus.The College student affairs journal · 2026Article
- Everyone Can Sing: Protocol for a non-randomized feasibility study of class choir as mental health promotion among primary school children (ages 5-10) in Denmark.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Pathways from adolescent close friendship struggles to adult negative affectivity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Psychometric analysis of the social connectedness instrument.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Perceived power dynamics in nursing education on students' learning experience in Ghana.PloS one · 2025Article
- Rethinking peer influence and risk taking: A strengths-based approach to adolescence in a new era.Development and psychopathology · 2024Review
- Adolescent social learning within supportive friendships: Self-disclosure and relationship quality from adolescence to adulthood.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
- Vulnerable self-disclosure co-develops in adolescent friendships: Developmental foundations of emotional intimacy.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2024Article
- A social-development model of the evolution of depressive symptoms from age 13 to 30.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Promoting attachment security during the transition to college: A pilot study of emotionally focused mentoring.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2023Article
- Social networks are shaped by culturally contingent assessments of social competence.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Adolescent peer struggles predict accelerated epigenetic aging in midlife.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Getting under the skin: long-term links of adolescent peer relationship difficulties to adult vagal tone.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- RANDOMIZED EVALUATION OF AN INTERVENTION TO ENHANCE A SENSE OF BELONGINGNESS AMONG ENTERING COLLEGE STUDENTS.The College student affairs journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study evaluated a school-based intervention to enhance adolescent peer relationships and improve functional outcomes, building upon Ed Zigler's seminal contribution in recognizing the potential of academic contexts to enhance social and emotional development. Adolescents (N = 610) primarily from economically or racially/ethnically marginalized groups were assessed preintervention, postintervention, and at 4-month follow-up in a randomized controlled trial. At program completion, intervention participants reported significantly increased quality of peer relationships; by 4-month follow-up, this increased quality was also observable by peers outside of the program, and program participants also displayed higher levels of academic engagement and lower levels of depressive symptoms. These latter effects appear to have potentially been mediated via participants' increased use of social support. The potential of the Connection Project intervention specifically, and of broader efforts to activate adolescent peer relationships as potent sources of social support and growth more generally within the secondary school context, is discussed.
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