Peer relationships among youth have been examined as predictors of mental health outcomes for at least fifty years, revealing dozens discrete peer constructs that each are associated with adjustment in childhood, adolescence, and later adulthood. Future research may benefit by examining a range new psychological processes discussed recently related literatures. This paper reviews recent on interpersonal determinants physical outcomes, opportunities greater examination 1) influence toward...

Objective: This study expanded knowledge about the development of suicide ideation and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents by investigating (a) peer experiences as predictors trajectories NSSI, (b) joint (c) risk for attempts (SA) across NSSI.Method: At baseline, 565 tenth-grade Chinese (48.3% males) reported depressive symptoms friend support.Moreover, victimization friendships were assessed using a sociometric procedure.After participants completed measures ideation, SA every...

This study examined friendship selection and socialization as mechanisms explaining similarity in depressive symptoms adolescent same-gender best friend dyads.The sample consisted of 1,752 adolescents (51% male) ages 12-16 years (M ϭ 13.77, SD 0.73) forming 487 dyads 389 nonfriend (the served a comparison group).To test our hypothesis, we applied multigroup actor-partner interdependence model to 3 types that started ended at different time points during the 2 waves data collection.Results...

Driven by existing socialization theories, this study describes specific friendship contexts in which peer influence of alcohol misuse and depressive symptoms occurs. In the fall spring school year, surveys were administered to 704 Italian adolescents (53 % male, M age = 15.53) enrolled Grades 9, 10 11. Different distinguished based on two dimensions referring level (i.e., best friendships networks) reciprocity unilateral reciprocal) relationships. Social network dyadic analyses applied a...

During adolescence, peer victimization is a potent type of social stressor that can confer enduring risk for poor mental and physical health. Given recent research implicating inflammation in promoting variety serious health problems, this study examined the role cognitive vulnerability (i.e. negative styles hopelessness) play shaping adolescents' pro-inflammatory cytokine responses to an acute stressor.

Objective: This study tests a novel, within-person model that reexamines depression and stress as risk factors for suicidal ideation behavior among adolescent girls with without sexual/physical abuse histories.Method: longitudinal includes data from 220 between 12 16 years of age (M ϭ 14.69 years, SD 1.37; 61% White).At baseline, adolescents reported the presence or absence prior part clinical interview.At baseline every 3 months 18 months, completed measures behavior, depressive symptoms,...

Most peer influence research examines socialization between adolescents and their best friends. Yet, also are influenced by popular peers, perhaps due to misperceptions of social norms. This examined the extent which out-group in-group misperceive frequencies peers' deviant, health risk, adaptive behaviors in different reputation-based crowds (Study 1) prospective associations perceptions high-status adolescents' own substance use over 2.5 years 2). Study 1 235 reported deviant (vandalism,...

Implicit attitudes toward alcohol predict drinking among adults and adolescents. If implicit reflected associations learned through direct experience with drinking, then they would likely only individuals who have previously consumed alcohol. In contrast, if indirect social messages, might also future even no experience. this study, we tested whether initiation of for the first time, parents' friends' norms influence development attitudes.For followed 868 adolescents between ages 12 15 years...

Depression rates increase markedly for girls across the adolescent transition, but social-environmental and biological processes underlying this phenomenon remain unclear. To address issue, we tested a key hypothesis from Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression, which posits that individuals who mount stronger inflammatory responses to social stress should exhibit greater increases in depressive symptoms following interpersonal life exposure than those weaker such stress.Participants...

This study examined direct and indirect forms of peer socialization nonsuicidal self‐injury ( NSSI ) in adolescent friendship networks. Data were collected among 348 adolescents (55% females; M age = 15.02 years; SD 0.53) at four assessment waves. Stochastic actor‐based models revealed no evidence for : whose friends reported higher did not increase their over time. However, found. After controlling selection effects, friends' depressive symptoms predicted changes male female adolescents' ,...

Adolescents tend to form friendships with similar peers and, in turn, their friends further influence adolescents' behaviors and attitudes. Emerging work has shown that these selection processes also might extend bully victimization. However, no prior examined effects involved victimization within cliques, despite theoretical account emphasizing the importance of cliques this regard. This study adolescence regarding both at level entire friendship network cliques. We used a two-wave design...

The current study demonstrated that chronic peer victimization, as compared to time-limited is particularly associated with status and peer-reported adjustment at the adolescent transition. Using a cohort sequential design, sample of 653 adolescents (48% female, 87% Caucasian) in Grades 6–8 were assessed 3 annual time points; data captured indices likeability, popularity, several internalizing (e.g., sadness, worry) externalizing anger, fighting) symptoms across 6–10. Four trajectories...

This study investigated selection, deselection, and influence processes of happiness in adolescent friendship networks. Longitudinal data on networks 426 adolescents ( M = 15.78, SD 0.65) were analyzed, using stochastic actor‐based models. Although similarity did not predict formation (selection), dissimilarity predicted dissolution (deselection). In addition, influenced each other's over time (influence). Our findings indicated that can involve either increases or decreases happiness,...

For decades, psychological research has examined the extent to which children’s and adolescents’ behavior is influenced by of their peers (i.e., peer influence effects). This review provides a comprehensive synthesis meta-analysis this vast field science, with goal quantify magnitude effects across broad array behaviors (externalizing, internalizing, academic). To provide rigorous test effects, only studies that employed longitudinal designs, controlled for youths’ baseline behaviors, used...

For many adolescents, the COVID-19 pandemic represents a uniquely challenging period, and concerns have been raised about whether COVID-19-related stress may increase risk for self-injurious behaviors among adolescents. This study examined impact of pre-existing vulnerabilities on occurrence frequency Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) through stress, NSSI was buffered by perceived social support during pandemic. Participants were 1061 adolescents (52.40% females; M

Background Peer problems have emerged as important predictors of Non‐Suicidal Self‐Injury (NSSI) development during adolescence. However, the possibility that adolescents who engage in NSSI may, turn, be at increased risk for experiencing difficulties with their peers has rarely been examined. This study investigated reciprocal associations between peer (e.g. victimization, friendship stress and loneliness) throughout adolescence, distinguishing between‐ within‐person effects. Method...

This study examined associations between multiple types of interpersonal and noninterpersonal stressors the subsequent occurrence suicide ideation attempts among female adolescents. Adolescents ages 12 to 18 years old (n = 160) at elevated risk for suicidal thoughts behaviors were followed months, divided into two 9-month epochs data analysis (Periods 1 2). Exposure acute relational victimization, targeted rejection, nonspecified interpersonal, life over first epoch (Period 1) was assessed...