Are adolescents with high self-esteem protected from psychosomatic symptomatology?

Pikó, Bettina; Varga, Szabolcs; Mellor, David

doi:10.1007/s00431-016-2709-7

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“…However, a limitation is that the reliability of the need to belong (.61) and relationship satisfaction (.63) scales was moderate at best. This was lower than in studies measuring belongingness needs in adult samples (Hartung & Renner, ; Leary et al, ; Mellor et al, ; Pickett, Gardner, & Knowles, ), though similar to another study of adolescents (Piko et al, ). A comparison of correlations between a study of adults (Mellor et al, ) and our study led us to believe that our sample is not divergent from other (older) samples.…”

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confidence: 41%

“…Previous work has established various negative effects of social isolation on health (for a meta‐analysis, see Holt‐Lunstad et al, ). There is also evidence linking high need for social connection to various physical and psychosomatic health complaints (Hartung & Renner, ; Mellor, Stokes, Firth, Hayashi, & Cummins, ; Piko, Varga, & Mellor, ). The interplay between social network quality and need for social connection has, however, not received as much attention.…”

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Unmet belongingness needs but not high belongingness needs alone predict adverse well‐being: A response surface modeling approach

Verhagen

Lodder

Baumeister

2017

Journal of Personality

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Objective: Previous work has linked high levels of belongingness needs to low well-being, suggesting that high desire for social connection causes problems. Against that view, we hypothesized that problems stem especially from unmet belongingness needs. To examine this, discrepancies between belongingness needs and relationship satisfaction were measured.Method: A total of 1,342 adolescents (M age 5 13.94 years, 48.6% boys) completed questionnaires about belongingness needs, relationship satisfaction, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and self-esteem. A combination of polynomial regression analyses with response surface modeling examined the effects of both fulfilled and unmet belongingness needs on well-being.Results: Fulfilled belongingness needs did not affect adolescents' well-being. However, larger discrepancies between high belongingness needs and low relationship satisfaction were related to higher loneliness, more depressive symptoms, and lower self-esteem. Thus, well-being was most strongly affected among adolescents reporting an unmet need to belong. Conclusions:We add to the current knowledge by emphasizing that especially belongingness needs that exceed relationship satisfaction, regardless of the actual levels of both, contribute to actual health outcomes. Thus, high need to belong is not detrimental per se, but only in combination with low relationship satisfaction. Implications for clinical practice could be to prevent unmet belongingness needs to ultimately alleviate negative affect and self-esteem. K E Y W O R D Sloneliness, need to belong, relationship satisfaction, response surface modeling, self-esteem

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Unmet belongingness needs but not high belongingness needs alone predict adverse well‐being: A response surface modeling approach

Verhagen

Lodder

Baumeister

2017

Journal of Personality

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“…In recent years, researchers have been increasingly pointing out a link between self-es-teem and the mental and physical aspects of adolescent health (Byrne, 2000;Erol & Orth, 2011;Piko, Varga, & Mellor, 2016). Erol and Orth (2011) found a positive relationship between self-esteem and physical health in adolescence, where adolescents with higher self-esteem showed better health.…”

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“…In particular, it has been shown that the higher the self-esteem, the lower the number of somatic complaints such as abdominal (stomach) pain and malaise (Robinson, Mitchell, Kirkeby, & Meier, 2006) and depression and anxiety (Byrne, 2000;De Jong, Sportel, De Hullu, & Nauta, 2012). According to Piko et al (2016), self-esteem has been found to provide protection against stress and it is related to lower levels of psychosomatic symptoms and mental health problems in both sexes.…”

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Subjective Health Complaints in Fifteen-Year-Old Czech Adolescents: The Role of Self-Esteem, Interparental Conflict, and Gender

Daňsová

Bouša²,

Lacinová³

et al. 2019

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This cross-sectional study aims to 1) investigate the factor structure and measurement invariance of subjective health complaints inventory in terms of gender, 2) examine the role of selfesteem, interparental conflict and gender in Czech adolescents' subjective health complaints, and 3) examine a possible moderating effect of gender in these relationships. Czech adolescents (N = 1602, 51% girls) from an epidemiological part of the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC) completed questionnaires at home and a psychological sub-sample of ELSPAC (n = 343, 46% girls) completed questionnaires during individual psychological examinations in the years 2006 and 2007. The subjective health complaints inventory used in this study is a unidimensional and scalar invariant for sex. Girls reported more subjective health symptoms than boys. Self-esteem may play a protective role for the adolescents' subjective health symptoms, especially in boys, whereas self-blame and threat in an interparental conflict may serve as a risk factor similarly for both sexes.

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“…However, it is negatively associated with binge drinking (Piko et al, 2016). Moreover, shy adolescents are less likely to present an alcohol use disorder (Burstein, Ameli-Grillon, & Merikangas, 2011).…”

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Does shyness interact with peer group affiliation in predicting substance use in adolescence?

Lemyre

Poliakova

Vitaro

et al. 2018

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Cigarette use and binge drinking are risky behaviors emerging during adolescence. Although many beneficial factors are well documented, studies linking shyness to substance use are somehow conflicting, which may be due to the contribution of moderators. Therefore, the present study has 2 objectives: (a) to prospectively analyze the association between shyness and substance use during adolescence, and (b) to test the moderating role of peer group affiliation on the relationship between shyness and substance use. Participants are 1447 adolescents from the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a representative cohort of single-birth children born between 1997 and 1998 in the province of Quebec, Canada. Shyness was assessed at age 12 years. Peer group affiliation, as well as past year cigarette use and binge drinking were assessed at age 15 years. Logistic regressions were used to analyze the data. All analyses were carried out using weighted data accounting for the complex multistage sample design. Results show that shyness negatively predicts the use of tobacco and the occurrence of binge drinking while controlling for confounding variables. However, shyness does not interact with peer group affiliation in predicting substance use. This is the first study that confirms the presence of a negative relationship between shyness and substance use during adolescence over a 3-year period. Results suggest that shyness could exert a beneficial effect against substance use notwithstanding the adolescent's social context. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Are adolescents with high self-esteem protected from psychosomatic symptomatology?

Cited by 21 publications

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Unmet belongingness needs but not high belongingness needs alone predict adverse well‐being: A response surface modeling approach

Unmet belongingness needs but not high belongingness needs alone predict adverse well‐being: A response surface modeling approach

Subjective Health Complaints in Fifteen-Year-Old Czech Adolescents: The Role of Self-Esteem, Interparental Conflict, and Gender

Does shyness interact with peer group affiliation in predicting substance use in adolescence?

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