Language, Social Behavior, and the Quality of Friendships in Adolescents with and without a History of Specific Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Durkin, Kevin; Conti-Ramsden, Gina
Titel	Language, Social Behavior, and the Quality of Friendships in Adolescents with and without a History of Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Child Development, 78 (2007) 5, S.1441-1457 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01076.x
Schlagwörter	Social Behavior; Adolescents; Language Aptitude; Predictor Variables; Language Impairments; Friendship; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sprachbegabung; Spracheignung; Prädiktor; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Freundschaft; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Language is drawn on extensively in friendships but has received scant attention in the developmental literature. This study compared friendship quality in 16-year-old adolescents with and without specific language impairment (SLI), testing the extent it is predicted by individual differences in social behaviors and language ability. Participants were 120 adolescents with SLI and 118 typically developing (TD) adolescents. After considering the effects of nonverbal IQ and prosocial and difficult behavior, language measures were found to be associated with friendship quality. The TD participants enjoyed normal friendships, whereas the participants with SLI were more likely to exhibit poorer quality (although 60% experienced good quality of friendships). Longitudinal analyses identified early language difficulties as predictive of poorer friendship quality in adolescence. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10