Seeking help from a female friend: Girls' competencies, friendship features, and intentions

Sears, Heather A.; Mcafee, Susan M.

doi:10.1111/pere.12180

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“…Buhrmester (1990) reported good internal consistencies (αs = .93 and .92) for the AICQ total scale. Sears and McAfee (2017) reported an internal consistency of .86 for the self-disclosure subscale in their sample of adolescent girls. The internal consistency for the self-disclosure subscale in this study was .87.…”

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Adolescents’ Individual Characteristics and Intentions to Seek Help from Types of Peers and Parents

Sears¹,

MacIntyre

2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Adolescents’ relationships with friends and with parents provide them with access to potential sources of assistance when they are experiencing problems. However, we lack more nuanced information about the types of peers and parents they intend to approach and about the contributions their individual characteristics make to their plans. This study examined adolescents’ intentions to seek help for a personal/emotional problem from five types of peers and parents (female friend, male friend, romantic partner, mother, father) and evaluated the unique, common, and total contributions of youth’s individual characteristics (gender, adaptable temperament, negative affect, self-disclosure competence, and conformity to the emotional control, self-reliance, and nice in relationships gender norms) to their intentions. Participants were 358 Canadian adolescents (51% boys; Grades 9–12) who completed a survey at school. On average, adolescents reported moderate intentions to seek assistance from each type of peer and parent. Hierarchical regression and commonality analyses showed that adolescents’ gender, self-disclosure competence, and emotional control beliefs made the largest total contributions to help-seeking intentions for both types of friends; self-disclosure competence and emotional control and self-reliance beliefs were most salient for help-seeking intentions for a romantic partner; and self-reliance beliefs and negative affect were most salient for help-seeking intentions for each parent, with emotional control beliefs also contributing to help-seeking intentions for mother. These results highlight the need to include more precise terms for peers and parents in help-seeking models and in assessments of adolescents’ help-seeking intentions, and the benefit of examining the unique, common, and total contributions of adolescents’ individual characteristics to clarify their relevance to youth’s plans to seek help.

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Adolescents’ Individual Characteristics and Intentions to Seek Help from Types of Peers and Parents

Sears¹,

MacIntyre

2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…Friendship has been broadly analysed by various fields of psychology (Hojjat & Moyer, 2017). Evolutionary psychology has placed special emphasis on infancy and adolescence (Aboud & Mendelson, 1998;Bagwell & Bukowski, 2018;Berndt, 1982Berndt, , 1989Deutz et al, 2014;Gottman & Parker, 1986;Meuwese et al, 2017;Parker & Asher, 1993;Parker & Gottman, 1989), addressing the effect of the gender variable (Bank & Hansford, 2005;Sears & McAfee, 2017). Personality psychology has dealt with friendship due to its link with the shaping of personal identity (Andrew & McCabe, 2015), the influence of personality traits on friendship satisfaction (Knack et al, 2013;Wilson et al, 2015), the importance of agreeableness and neuroticism in developing friendships (Harris & Vazire, 2016), and because knowing other people's motives is positively associated with a greater quality of friendship (Chloe et al, 2019).…”

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The emotions behind character friendship: From other‐oriented emotions to the ‘bonding feeling’

Priego¹,

Romero‐Iribas

2021

J Theory Soc Behav

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This article aims to theoretically analyse so-called character friendship from the perspective of emotions.From this angle, our research enables us to distinguish different types of emotions, and we propose a conceptual model of the hierarchy of the emotions of character friendship and their influence on social behaviour. With this model in hand, the article discusses whether other-oriented emotions fully explain the emotional underpinnings of character friendship. We find other-oriented emotions to be ambiguous because they may or may not be selfless. Thus we question whether these emotions can adequately explain the bonding content of character friendship. We conclude that there is a higher affective tier related to moral emotions and moral behaviour, which we have labelled the 'bonding feeling'. This feeling is described with reference to its historical precedents (Rof Carballo's 'affective warp'), thus explaining its particularity.

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“…The degree of mental health and one's capacity to perceive well‐being are both strongly impacted by intimacy (Lu, 2011). According to research, girls' perceptions of increased intimacy and companionship in friendships can serve as an indirect mediator between their capability and intention to ask for assistance from female friends (Sears & Mcafee, 2017). Men who scored higher on normative narrative barriers, fear of intimacy, and traditional masculine ideology showed more unfavorable attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (Sullivan et al, 2015).…”

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Effect of visual warmness of counseling room on primary school students' willingness to psychological help‐seeking: The role of intimacy and cognitive style

Hao

Lin

Wang

et al. 2023

Psychology in the Schools

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According to previous studies, few students who experienced psychiatric problems sought out professional help. Although counseling rooms are now frequently found in primary and secondary schools in China, there is still a need to find a solution to the issue of how to increase the utilization rate of counseling rooms. To better understand how the setting of the counseling room affects students' willingness to seek professional psychological help, this study looked at the components that influence that increase. In this study, 1173 primary school students were surveyed using visual warmth of counseling room picture materials, intimacy measurement questionnaires, and the embedded figures test to investigate the relationship between visual warmth of counseling room picture materials and students' willingness to seek psychological help, as well as the role of intimacy and cognitive style. The study found that the warmth of the school counseling room had a significant effect on students' willingness to seek professional psychological help and that students' feelings of closeness to the counseling room mediated this influence path. Also, cognitive style moderated the direct effect of the counseling room's visual warmth on willingness to seek help as well as the first half of the mediating effect of intimacy.

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Seeking help from a female friend: Girls' competencies, friendship features, and intentions

Cited by 6 publications

References 63 publications

Adolescents’ Individual Characteristics and Intentions to Seek Help from Types of Peers and Parents

Adolescents’ Individual Characteristics and Intentions to Seek Help from Types of Peers and Parents

The emotions behind character friendship: From other‐oriented emotions to the ‘bonding feeling’

Effect of visual warmness of counseling room on primary school students' willingness to psychological help‐seeking: The role of intimacy and cognitive style

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