Predicting Difficulties in Youth's Friendships: Are Anxiety Symptoms as Damaging as Depressive Symptoms?

Rose, Amanda J.; Carlson, Wendy; Luebbe, Aaron M.; Schwartz‐Mette, Rebecca A.; Smith, Rhiannon R.; Swenson, Lance P.

doi:10.1353/mpq.2011.0013

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“…It could be that high quality friendships wherein youth feel very close to and supported by one another initiate depression contagion, but that once contagion has occurred, the friendship difficulties typically experienced by depressed youth (Rose et al, 2011) become apparent. Adolescents who are depressed may withdraw from the friendship or engage in aversive behaviors such as conversational self-focus (Schwartz-Mette & Rose, 2016) or negative feedback seeking (Borelli & Prinstein, 2006), which ultimately may lead to the demise of the friendship.…”

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When Does Co-Rumination Facilitate Depression Contagion in Adolescent Friendships? Investigating Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors

Schwartz‐Mette

Smith

2016

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Objective: Research supports the notion that adolescents’ mental health is impacted by peers via contagion processes. A growing area of interest has been how co-rumination may influence depressive symptoms within friendships. The current study examined particular conditions under which co-rumination is especially likely to facilitate depression contagion. Method: Participants were adolescents (N =480, 49% female, M age = 14.6 years, 59.5% European American) paired in friendship dyads and assessed over 9 months. Characteristics of the adolescent (personal distress), of the friend (excessive reassurance seeking), and of the friendship (friendship quality) were considered. Results: Moderated mediation analyses indicated that co-rumination facilitated depression contagion only under conditions of adolescents’ high personal distress, friends’ high excessive reassurance seeking, and high positive friendship quality. Conclusions: This research underscores the importance of attending to how and under what conditions depression contagion occurs within friendships in order to support adolescents’ positive social and emotional development.

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When Does Co-Rumination Facilitate Depression Contagion in Adolescent Friendships? Investigating Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors

Schwartz‐Mette

Smith

2016

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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“…For example, rejection or exclusion from one’s social network means that one’s fundamental human need for connectedness is not met and is linked to increased symptoms of distress in adolescents [36,73]. However, young people who have mental health difficulties may experience cognitive distortions, which can cause them to view their interpersonal relationships in a more negative light [74,75], resulting in a diminished sense of belonging. Although sense of belonging is not as directly controllable as sleep and exercise, it can still be promoted in school, incorporating features that have been linked to increased sense of belonging among students, including appropriate policies and structures to prevent bullying, peer support programs, and extracurricular activities [76].…”

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Ecological Momentary Assessment of Adolescent Problems, Coping Efficacy, and Mood States Using a Mobile Phone App: An Exploratory Study

Kenny¹,

Dooley²,

Fitzgerald³

2016

JMIR Ment Health

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BackgroundMobile technologies have the potential to be used as innovative tools for conducting research on the mental health and well-being of young people. In particular, they have utility for carrying out ecological momentary assessment (EMA) research by capturing data from participants in real time as they go about their daily lives.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to explore the utility of a mobile phone app as a means of collecting EMA data pertaining to mood, problems, and coping efficacy in a school-based sample of Irish young people.MethodsThe study included a total of 208 participants who were aged 15-18 years, 64% female (113/208), recruited from second-level schools in Ireland, and who downloaded the CopeSmart mobile phone app as part of a randomized controlled trial. On the app, participants initially responded to 5 single-item measures of key protective factors in youth mental health (formal help-seeking, informal help-seeking, sleep, exercise, and sense of belonging). They were then encouraged to use the app daily to input data relating to mood states (happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and worry), daily problems, and coping self-efficacy. The app automatically collected data pertaining to user engagement over the course of the 28-day intervention period. Students also completed pen and paper questionnaires containing standardized measures of emotional distress (Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale; DASS-21), well-being (World Health Organization Well-Being Index; WHO-5), and coping (Coping Strategies Inventory; CSI).ResultsOn average the participants completed 18% (5/28) of daily ratings, and engagement levels did not differ across gender, age, school, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or nationality. On a scale of 1 to 10, happiness was consistently the highest rated mood state (overall mean 6.56), and anger was consistently the lowest (overall mean 2.11). Pearson correlations revealed that average daily ratings of emotional states were associated with standardized measures of emotional distress (rhappiness=–.45, rsadness=.51, ranger=.32, rstress=.41, rworry=.48) and well-being (rhappiness=.39, rsadness =–.43, ranger=–.27, rstress=–.35, rworry=–.33). Inferential statistics indicated that single-item indicators of key protective factors were related to emotional distress, well-being, and average daily mood states, as measured by EMA ratings. Hierarchical regressions revealed that greater daily problems were associated with more negative daily mood ratings (all at the P<.001 level); however, when coping efficacy was taken into account, the relationship between problems and happiness, sadness, and anger became negligible.ConclusionsWhile engagement with the app was low, overall the EMA data collected in this exploratory study appeared valid and provided useful insights into the relationships between daily problems, coping efficacy, and mood states. Future research should explore ways to increase engagement with EMA mobile phone apps in adolescent populations to maximize the amount of data captured ...

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“…Depressive symptoms in late childhood and adolescence are associated with social problems (Fauber, Forehand, Long, Burke, & Faust, 1987; Fröjd et al., 2008), including lower peer acceptance (Kingery, Erdley, & Marshall, 2011) and less friendship support and stability (Klima & Repetti, 2008; Prinstein, Borelli, Cheah, Simon, & Aikins, 2005). Further, when both anxiety and depressive symptoms have been incorporated in the same study, it appears that depression is more detrimental than anxiety for youths’ social adjustment (Chen, Cohen, Johnson, & Kasen, 2009; de Matos, Barrett, Dadds, & Shortt, 2003; Rose et al, 2011; Rudolph, Hammen, Burge, 1994). Likewise, Strauss et al (1988) found that the lack of popularity among anxiety disordered children was generally limited to only those children who also had coexisting depression.…”

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Differentiating Anxiety and Depression in Relation to the Social Functioning of Young Adolescents With ADHD

Becker

Langberg

Evans

et al. 2014

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Objective-The present study examined anxiety and depressive symptoms in relation to the social functioning of young adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and builds upon prior work by incorporating youths' self-reports of internalizing symptoms and examining distinct anxiety and depression dimensions in order to increase specificity.Method-Participants were 310 young adolescents (ages 10-14; 71% male;78% Caucasian) diagnosed with ADHD. Youth provided ratings of anxiety/depression, and parents provided ratings of their own depression. Parents and youth both reported on youths' social skills and perceived social acceptance.Results-Path analyses indicated that above and beyond child demographics, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptom severity, and parents' own depression, self-reported social anxiety and anhedonia were both associated with lower youth-reported social skills and both parent-and youth-reported social acceptance. Negative self-evaluation was associated with poorer parent-reported social skills. Finally, harm avoidance was positively associated with both youthand parent-reported social skills. A path analysis using comorbid diagnoses (rather than symptom dimensions) indicated that that having a comorbid disruptive behavior disorder or depression diagnosis (but not a comorbid anxiety diagnosis) was associated with poorer parent-reported social functioning.Conclusions-Results demonstrate that the relation between internalizing symptoms and social functioning among young adolescents with ADHD is nuanced, with social anxiety and anhedonia symptoms associated with lower social skills and social acceptance in contrast to harm avoidance being associated with higher ratings of social skills (and unrelated to social acceptance). In terms HHS Public Access Author Manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript of comorbid diagnoses, depression is more clearly related than anxiety to poorer social functioning among young adolescents with ADHD. These results point to the importance of attending to specific facets of anxiety and depression in clinical care and future research. KeywordsAdolescence; Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder; Comorbidity; Peer Functioning; Social CompetenceYouth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience significant impairments in their social relationships, including higher rates of peer rejection, less social competence, and fewer dyadic friendships than their typically developing peers (see Hoza, 2007). Extant research indicates that the social impairments experienced by children with ADHD are neither transient nor innocuous, but instead tend to be long-lasting and associated with increased impairment as children with ADHD transition to adolescence (Bagwell et al., 2001;Lee et al., 2008;Mrug et al., 2012). However, the vast majority of studies in this area have focused on elementary age children, with surprisingly few studies examining the social functioning of older youth with ADHD. As such, ver...

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Predicting Difficulties in Youth's Friendships: Are Anxiety Symptoms as Damaging as Depressive Symptoms?

Cited by 40 publications

References 34 publications

When Does Co-Rumination Facilitate Depression Contagion in Adolescent Friendships? Investigating Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors

When Does Co-Rumination Facilitate Depression Contagion in Adolescent Friendships? Investigating Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors

Ecological Momentary Assessment of Adolescent Problems, Coping Efficacy, and Mood States Using a Mobile Phone App: An Exploratory Study

Differentiating Anxiety and Depression in Relation to the Social Functioning of Young Adolescents With ADHD

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