“…A burgeoning interest in youth LS has revealed a variety of correlates including demographic variables (e.g., socioeconomic status [SES]), personality traits (e.g., extraversion), cognitive processing (e.g., attribution styles), and interpersonal variables (e.g., parent and peer relationships; Huebner, Suldo, & Gilman, 2006). Similar to that of adults, child and youth perceptions of the quality of their interpersonal relationships, such as family and friends, are among the strongest correlates of their overall LS (see Huebner, Suldo, & Gilman, 2006, for a review). For an example related to interpersonal variables, Furr and Funder (1998) observed the interpersonal behavior of older youth (i.e., college students) paired with a target college student in a dyadic interaction.…”