Peer Contagion and Adolescent Depression: The Role of Failure Anticipation

Zalk, Maarten van; Kerr, Margaret; Branje, Susan; Stattin, Håkan; Meeus, Wim

doi:10.1080/15374416.2010.517164

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“…Through afferent feedback, the receiver feels the sender’s expressions, and this leads toward emotional convergence [35]. The conscious component could be due to shared communication styles such as co-rumination [37]. …”

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Establishment of an animal model of depression contagion

Boyko

Kutz

Grinshpun

et al. 2015

Behavioural Brain Research

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Background Depression is a common and important cause of morbidity, and results in a significant economic burden. Recent human studies have demonstrated that that depression is contagious, and depression in family and friends might cumulatively increase the likelihood that a person will exhibit depressive behaviors. The mechanisms underlying contagion depression are poorly understood, and there are currently no animal models for this condition. Methods Rats were divided into 3 groups: depression group, contagion group, and control group. After induction of depression by 5 weeks of chronic unpredictable stress, rats from the contagion group were housed with the depressed rats (1 naïve rat with 2 depressed rats) for 5 weeks. Rats were then subjected to sucrose preference, open field, and forced swim tests. Results The sucrose preference was significantly reduced in the depressed rats (p < 0.01) and contagion depression rats (p < 0.01). Climbing time during forced swim test was reduced in the depression and contagion depression groups (p < 0.001), whereas immobility time was significantly prolonged in only the depression group (p < 0.001). Rats in both the depression (p < 0.05) and depression contagion group (p < 0.005) had decreased total travel distance and decreased mean velocity in the open field test, whereas the time spent in the central part was significantly shorter in only the depression group (p < 0.001). Conclusions In this study, for the first time we demonstrated depression contagion in an animal model. A reliable animal model may help better understand the underlying mechanisms of contagion depression, and may allow for future investigations of the studying therapeutic modalities.

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Establishment of an animal model of depression contagion

Boyko

Kutz

Grinshpun

et al. 2015

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…Some of these find socialization effects (Kiuru, Burk, Laursen, Nurmi, & Salmela-Aro, 2012;van Workum, Scholte, Cillessen, Lodder, & Giletta, 2013;van Zalk, Kerr, Branje, Stattin, & Meeus, 2010a), whereas others report no such effect (Giletta et al, 2012;Pachucki, Ozer, Barrat, & Cattuto, 2014). These mixed findings suggest that potentially confounding mechanisms (e.g., social integration) or moderating effects (e.g., gender;van Zalk et al, 2010b) should be taken into consideration.…”

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The co-evolution of emotional well-being with weak and strong friendship ties

Elmer¹,

Boda²,

Stadtfeld³

2017

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Social ties are strongly related to well-being. But what characterizes this relationship? This study investigates social mechanisms explaining how social ties affect well-being through social integration and social influence, and how well-being affects social ties through social selection. We hypothesize that highly integrated individuals -those with more extensive and dense friendship networks -report higher emotional well-being than others. Moreover, emotional well-being should be influenced by the well-being of close friends. Finally, well-being should affect friendship selection when individuals prefer others with higher levels of well-being, and others whose well-being is similar to theirs. We test our hypotheses using longitudinal social network and well-being data of 117 individuals living in a graduate housing community. The application of a novel extension of Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models for ordered networks (ordered SAOMs) allows us to detail and test our hypotheses for weak-and strong-tied friendship networks simultaneously. Results do not support our social integration and social influence hypotheses but provide evidence for selection: individuals with higher emotional wellbeing tend to have more strong-tied friends, and there are homophily processes regarding emotional well-being in strong-tied networks. Our study highlights the two-directional relationship between social ties and well-being, and demonstrates the importance of considering different tie strengths for various social processes.

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“…Social‐cognitive processes, broadly defined as intra‐individual patterns of attention, representation, and manipulation of stimuli from the social environment, have been described as a primary mechanism in the link between exposure to environmental risks, including exposure to peer aggression, and the development of antisocial and prosocial behavior (Aber et al., ; Crick & Dodge, ), and internalizing behavioral problems (Stevens & Prinstein, ; Van Zalk, Kerr, Branje, Stattin, & Meeus, ). Social information processing theory (Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, ) proposes that the behavior of children and adolescents is a function of the enactment of a sequence of steps in a cognitive processing system organized around the identification and interpretation of social cues (Crick & Dodge, ).…”

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“…Similarly, it is possible that other individual, developmental, dyadic, and classroom attributes could moderate and even mediate the process of selection and socialization of aggressive and prosocial behavior in this population. Although we have considered social cognition as a moderator, it is possible that these patterns of social information processing could act as an intra‐individual mediator that translates the effect of peers into individual action (Van Zalk et al., ). Future research should evaluate this possibility while extending the analytical possibilities of current network models.…”

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Selection and Socialization of Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Social‐Cognitive Processes

Molano

Jones

Brown

et al. 2013

J of Research on Adolesc

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This study evaluated the extent to which fourth‐grade students (M age = 8.62) select and are influenced by their peers' aggressive and prosocial behavior and the extent to which intra‐individual social cognitions moderate these processes. Two waves of data were collected in the fall and spring of one academic year from children attending 18 New York City public elementary schools. Stochastic actor‐based social network analysis was used to evaluate whether participants modify their network or behavior in response to the behavior of their peers. Findings support an average main effect of peer influence of aggression, as well as an interaction indicating that participants with high levels of hostile attributional bias have higher odds of adopting the aggressive behavior of their peers.

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Peer Contagion and Adolescent Depression: The Role of Failure Anticipation

Cited by 53 publications

References 38 publications

Establishment of an animal model of depression contagion

Establishment of an animal model of depression contagion

The co-evolution of emotional well-being with weak and strong friendship ties

Selection and Socialization of Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Social‐Cognitive Processes

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