“…Studies that follow children into adulthood are limited, so it is unclear whether social networks in childhood are linked to trajectories of depressive symptomology over time. Prospective studies of early life predictors of depression during the transition to adulthood provide evidence for the influence of family network characteristics, including large family size and low parental support (Auerbach, Bigda-Peyton, Eberhart, Webb, & Ho, 2011;Meadows, Brown, & Elder, 2006;Reinherz, Paradis, Giaconia, Stashwick, & Fitzmaurice, 2003). Reciprocal friendships and lower levels of peer rejection in childhood have been linked to positive adjustment in adulthood (Bagwell, Newcomb, & Bukowski, 1998), whereas having no friends in childhood was associated with higher likelihood of exhibiting internalizing and externalizing problems in early adulthood (Sakyi, Surkan, Fombonne, Chollet, & Melchior, 2015).…”