SynthesisDevelopmental psychology2022
Similarity of friends versus nonfriends in adolescence: Developmental patterns and ecological influences.
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- Convergence and divergence of mental health symptoms among adolescents and their friends.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- The importance of Spanish-language similarity in friend selection.School psychology (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Other-Sex Close Friends and Alcohol Use is a Between-, Not Within-, Person Process.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Friendship networks predict girls' STEM fit and interest through subjective belonging.Group processes & intergroup relations : GPIR · 2026Article
- Neural similarity and interaction success in autistic and non-autistic adolescents.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Predictors of Friendship Skills for Adolescents with Asthma: An Analysis of Parent Report on the 2022 National Survey of Children's Health.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Similarities in mindset between adolescents' friends and cooperation partners.Social psychology of education : an international journal · 2025Article
- Smiling synchronization predicts interaction enjoyment in peer dyads of autistic and neurotypical youth.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study examines developmental change across adolescence in the similarity of friends versus nonfriends. This differential in similarity is a key aspect of the organization of the peer context of development: The stronger the correlation between friends for an attribute, the more the attribute delineates clustering and divisions of friendships. We investigated change in the correlation between friends across 12 attributes covering demographics, orientations to key institutions (family, school, religion), and problem behavior, and we expected that the link between similarity and friendship would increase during adolescence for most attributes other than gender. We also predicted that the social ecological factors of school size and attribute variability would be associated with stronger correlations between friends and partially mediate developmental change. Data are from two grade cohorts of 27 small school districts, followed from sixth through 11th grades (
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