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Friend Emotional Support and Dynamics of Adolescent Socioemotional Problems

Auteurs: Hui Wang, Jianjie Xu, Sinan Fu, Ue Ki Tsang, Haining Ren, Shurou Zhang, Yueqin Hu, Janice L. Zeman, Zhuo Rachel Han

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 12/2024

Abstract

Emotional support from friends is a crucial source of social support for adolescents, significantly influencing their psychological development. However, previous research has primarily focused on how this support correlates with general levels of socioemotional problems among adolescents, neglecting the significance of daily fluctuations in these problems. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between friend emotional support and both the average and dynamic indicators of daily emotional and peer problems in adolescents. These dynamic indicators include within-domain dynamics—such as inertia, which reflects the temporal dependence of experiences, and volatility, which indicates within-person variance—and cross-domain dynamics, such as transactional effects, which measure the strength of concurrent or lagged associations between daily emotional and peer problems. Participants were 315 seventh-grade Chinese adolescents (M_age = 13.05 years, SD = 0.77 years; 48.3% girls). Adolescents reported on their friends’ emotional support at baseline and then completed measures of daily emotion and peer problems over a 10-day period. Using dynamic structural equation models, the results revealed that higher levels of friend emotional support were associated with fewer daily socioemotional problems. This was evident both in terms of average levels and dynamic aspects, characterized by lower mean levels of daily emotional and peer problems, reduced inertia and volatility of these problems, and a weaker spillover effect from daily emotional issues to peer problems. These findings highlight the significant role of friend-emotional support in mitigating adolescents’ daily socioemotional challenges.

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Titel: Friend Emotional Support and Dynamics of Adolescent Socioemotional Problems
Auteurs: Hui Wang
Jianjie Xu
Sinan Fu
Ue Ki Tsang
Haining Ren
Shurou Zhang
Yueqin Hu
Janice L. Zeman
Zhuo Rachel Han
Publicatiedatum: 06-06-2024
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 12/2024
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-02025-3

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