Friendship and adjustment among adolescents

Meliksah Demir; Kathryn A. Urberg

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2004.02.006

Friendship and adjustment among adolescents

Meliksah Demir, Kathryn A. Urberg

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This study investigated the relation of friendship and emotional adjustment in adolescents. Both quantitative (popularity, mutual friendships, and number of friends) and qualitative dimensions (perceived positive friendship quality and conflict) of friendship were used. Participants were 618, mostly European American, 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders. Structural equation modeling showed that positive friendship quality was the only friendship variable that predicted adjustment. An examination of gender effects indicated that this relation held only for boys. The quantitative aspects of friendship had a small, indirect effect on adjustment through their effects on positive quality. Conflict had a negative effect on positive quality and this effect was stronger for girls than for boys. The role of adolescents' perception in adjustment was highlighted and suggestions for future research were made.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	68-82
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume	88
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2004.02.006
State	Published - May 2004

Keywords

Adjustment
Friendship
Friendship quality

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology

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