Similarity in Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents' Friendship Dyads: Selection or Socialization?

Autor/inn/en	Giletta, Matteo; Scholte, Ron H. J.; Burk, William J.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Larsen, Junilla K.; Prinstein, Mitchell J.; Ciairano, Silvia
Titel	Similarity in Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents' Friendship Dyads: Selection or Socialization?
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 6, S.1804-1814 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0023872
Schlagwörter	Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Socialization; Friendship; Adolescents; Depression (Psychology); Hypothesis Testing; Models; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Freundschaft; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Analogiemodell; Korrelation
Abstract	This study examined friendship selection and socialization as mechanisms explaining similarity in depressive symptoms in adolescent same-gender best friend dyads. The sample consisted of 1,752 adolescents (51% male) ages 12-16 years (M = 13.77, SD = 0.73) forming 487 friend dyads and 389 nonfriend dyads (the nonfriend dyads served as a comparison group). To test our hypothesis, we applied a multigroup actor-partner interdependence model to 3 friendship types that started and ended at different time points during the 2 waves of data collection. Results showed that adolescents reported levels of depressive symptoms at follow-up that were similar to those of their best friends. Socialization processes explained the increase in similarity exclusively in female dyads, whereas no evidence for friendship selection emerged for either male or female dyads. Additional analyses revealed that similarity between friends was particularly evident in the actual best friend dyads (i.e., true best friends), in which evidence for socialization processes emerged for both female and male friend dyads. Findings highlight the importance of examining friendship relations as a potential context for the development of depressive symptoms. (Contains 3 tables, 1 figure and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10