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Joseph P Allen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Close Friendship strength and broader peer group desirability as differential predictors of adult mental health
Child Development, 2019Co-Authors: Rachel K Narr, Joseph P Allen, Joseph S Tan, Emily L LoebAbstract:Middle adolescents' Close Friendship strength and the degree to which their broader peer group expressed a preference to affiliate with them were examined as predictors of relative change in depressive symptoms, self-worth, and social anxiety symptoms from ages 15 to 25 using multimethod, longitudinal data from 169 adolescents. Close Friendship strength in midadolescence predicted relative increases in self-worth and decreases in anxiety and depressive symptoms by early adulthood. Affiliation preference by the broader peer group, in contrast, predicted higher social anxiety by early adulthood. Results are interpreted as suggesting that adolescents who prioritize forming Close Friendships are better situated to manage key social developmental tasks going forward than adolescents who prioritize attaining preference with many others in their peer milieu.
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running with the pack teen peer relationship qualities as predictors of adult physical health
Psychological Science, 2015Co-Authors: Joseph P Allen, Bert N Uchino, Christopher A HafenAbstract:This study assessed qualities of adolescent peer relationships as long-term predictors of physical health quality in adulthood. In an intensive multimethod, multireporter study of a community sample of 171 individuals assessed repeatedly from the ages of 13 to 27 years, physical health quality in adulthood was robustly predicted by independent reports of early-adolescent Close-Friendship quality and by a pattern of acquiescence to social norms in adolescent peer relationships. Predictions remained after accounting for numerous potential confounds, including prior health problems, concurrent body mass index, anxious and depressive symptoms, personality characteristics, adolescent-era financial adversity, and adolescent-era physical attractiveness. These findings have important implications for understanding the unique intensity of peer relationships in adolescence.
Emma K Devine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the upsides and downsides of the dark side a longitudinal study into the role of prosocial and antisocial strategies in Close Friendship formation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019Co-Authors: Joseph Ciarrochi, Baljinder K Sahdra, Patricia H Hawley, Emma K DevineAbstract:Resource control theory (RCT) posits that both antisocial and prosocial behaviors combine in unique ways to control resources such as Friendships. We assessed students (N = 2803; 49.7 % male) yearly from junior (grades 8 to 10) to senior high school (11 to 12) on antisocial (A) prosocial (P) behavior, peer nominated Friendship, and well-being. Non-parametric cluster analyses of the joint trajectories of A and P identified four stable profiles: non-strategic (moderately low A and P), bi-strategic (moderately high on A and P), prosocial (moderately low A and moderately high on P), and antisocial (moderately low on P, and very high on A). There were clear benefits to youth using bi-strategic strategies in junior high: They attracted relatively high levels of opposite-sex Friendship nominations. However, this benefit disappeared in senior high. There were also clear costs: Bi-strategic youth experienced relatively low well-being, and this effect was significantly more pronounced for females than males. Prosocial youth were the only ones who maintained both high Friendship numbers and high well-being throughout high school. We discuss the cost/benefit trade-offs of different resource control strategies.
Christopher A Hafen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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running with the pack teen peer relationship qualities as predictors of adult physical health
Psychological Science, 2015Co-Authors: Joseph P Allen, Bert N Uchino, Christopher A HafenAbstract:This study assessed qualities of adolescent peer relationships as long-term predictors of physical health quality in adulthood. In an intensive multimethod, multireporter study of a community sample of 171 individuals assessed repeatedly from the ages of 13 to 27 years, physical health quality in adulthood was robustly predicted by independent reports of early-adolescent Close-Friendship quality and by a pattern of acquiescence to social norms in adolescent peer relationships. Predictions remained after accounting for numerous potential confounds, including prior health problems, concurrent body mass index, anxious and depressive symptoms, personality characteristics, adolescent-era financial adversity, and adolescent-era physical attractiveness. These findings have important implications for understanding the unique intensity of peer relationships in adolescence.
Emily L Loeb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Close Friendship strength and broader peer group desirability as differential predictors of adult mental health
Child Development, 2019Co-Authors: Rachel K Narr, Joseph P Allen, Joseph S Tan, Emily L LoebAbstract:Middle adolescents' Close Friendship strength and the degree to which their broader peer group expressed a preference to affiliate with them were examined as predictors of relative change in depressive symptoms, self-worth, and social anxiety symptoms from ages 15 to 25 using multimethod, longitudinal data from 169 adolescents. Close Friendship strength in midadolescence predicted relative increases in self-worth and decreases in anxiety and depressive symptoms by early adulthood. Affiliation preference by the broader peer group, in contrast, predicted higher social anxiety by early adulthood. Results are interpreted as suggesting that adolescents who prioritize forming Close Friendships are better situated to manage key social developmental tasks going forward than adolescents who prioritize attaining preference with many others in their peer milieu.
Joseph Ciarrochi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the upsides and downsides of the dark side a longitudinal study into the role of prosocial and antisocial strategies in Close Friendship formation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019Co-Authors: Joseph Ciarrochi, Baljinder K Sahdra, Patricia H Hawley, Emma K DevineAbstract:Resource control theory (RCT) posits that both antisocial and prosocial behaviors combine in unique ways to control resources such as Friendships. We assessed students (N = 2803; 49.7 % male) yearly from junior (grades 8 to 10) to senior high school (11 to 12) on antisocial (A) prosocial (P) behavior, peer nominated Friendship, and well-being. Non-parametric cluster analyses of the joint trajectories of A and P identified four stable profiles: non-strategic (moderately low A and P), bi-strategic (moderately high on A and P), prosocial (moderately low A and moderately high on P), and antisocial (moderately low on P, and very high on A). There were clear benefits to youth using bi-strategic strategies in junior high: They attracted relatively high levels of opposite-sex Friendship nominations. However, this benefit disappeared in senior high. There were also clear costs: Bi-strategic youth experienced relatively low well-being, and this effect was significantly more pronounced for females than males. Prosocial youth were the only ones who maintained both high Friendship numbers and high well-being throughout high school. We discuss the cost/benefit trade-offs of different resource control strategies.