2005
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843x.114.4.676
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Adolescent Girls' Interpersonal Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Examination of Reassurance-Seeking and Peer Relationships.

Abstract: A transactional, interpersonal framework involving adolescents' reassurance-seeking and peer experiences may be useful for understanding the emergence of gender differences in depression prevalence during the adolescent transition. Sociometric nominations of peer acceptance/rejection and ratings of friendship quality provided by adolescents and their friends were used to measure peer experiences among 6th-8th-grade adolescents (N=520) over 3 annual time points. After controlling for age and pubertal developmen… Show more

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“…Specifically, having withdrawn friends (Guroglu et al 2007), victimization by peers (Hodges et al 1997), and low friendship quality (Prinstein et al 2005a) have been associated with higher levels of internalizing problems. The present study confirms that the development of friendship quality and the development of depression are specifically associated for adolescent girls.…”
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“…Specifically, having withdrawn friends (Guroglu et al 2007), victimization by peers (Hodges et al 1997), and low friendship quality (Prinstein et al 2005a) have been associated with higher levels of internalizing problems. The present study confirms that the development of friendship quality and the development of depression are specifically associated for adolescent girls.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This difference between friendship types was not found for boys. Girls have been found to exhibit a stronger relational orientation and greater emotional needs in adolescence compared to boys (Rudolph 2002) and it may be that girls are therefore more sensitive to negative exchanges within best friendships (Borelli and Prinstein 2006;Prinstein et al 2005a). Girls may therefore be more affected by changes in their perceived friendship quality than boys are.…”
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confidence: 99%
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