With a Little Help from Your Friends: The Importance of High‐quality Friendships on Early Adolescent Adjustment

Waldrip, Amy M.; Malcolm, Kenya T.; Jensen‐Campbell, Lauri A.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00476.x

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“…Next to peer acceptance, both the quantity and quality of friendships have typically been studied as aspects of peer relationships contributing to positive development (e.g., Waldrip, Malcolm, & Jensen-Campbell, 2008). The number of friendships is typically determined by friendship nominations by both members of a friendship dyad.…”

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Good Character Is What We Look for in a Friend: Character Strengths Are Positively Related to Peer Acceptance and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescents

Wagner

2018

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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This study investigates the role of character strengths in peer relationships among early adolescents. A sample of students (N = 339; X age = 12.84 years, 53.1% female) nominated friends in the classroom and completed assessments of character strengths, the desirability and importance of character strengths in a friend, and friendship quality. Results indicate that the character strengths of honesty, humor, kindness, and fairness were most desirable and important in a friend. Perspective, love, kindness, social intelligence, teamwork, leadership, and humor were associated with higher peer acceptance. Dyadic analyses of mutual best friends suggested that a number of character strengths were also positively related to friend-rated friendship quality. Overall, the results demonstrate the relevance of character strengths for positive peer relationships in adolescents. This study investigates the role of character strengths in peer relationships among early adolescents. A sample of students (N = 339; mean age = 12.84 years, 53.1% female) nominated friends in the classroom and completed assessments of character strengths, the desirability and importance of character strengths in a friend, and friendship quality. Results indicate that the character strengths of honesty, humor, kindness, and fairness were most desirable and important in a friend. Perspective, love, kindness, social intelligence, teamwork, leadership, and humor were associated with higher peer acceptance. Dyadic analyses of mutual best friends suggested that a number of character strengths were also positively related to friend-rated friendship quality.Overall, the results demonstrate the relevance of character strengths for positive peer relationships in adolescents.

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Good Character Is What We Look for in a Friend: Character Strengths Are Positively Related to Peer Acceptance and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescents

Wagner

2018

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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“…Researchers have found measures of friendship quality to be related to indicators of adjustment in middle childhood. Correlational-designed studies suggest that friendship quality is negatively related to loneliness (Parker & Asher, 1993), depression (Nangle, Erdley, Newman, Mason & Carpenter, 2003), aggressive and disruptive behaviours (Bagwell & Coie, 2004), victimization (Bollmer, Milich, Harris, & Maras, 2005), low engagement in school (Leary & Katz, 2005), and friendship termination (e.g., Rose, Swenson, & Carlson, 2004), but positively related to positive self-esteem, greater peer acceptance (Keefe & Berndt, 1996), social perspective taking skills and altruism (McGuire & Weisz, 1982), sociability and leadership (Berndt, Hawkins, & Jiao, 1999), school liking , and overall adjustment (Waldrip, Malcolm, & Jensen-Campbell, 2008).…”

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How Do Children with ADHD (Mis)manage Their Real-Life Dyadic Friendships? A Multi-Method Investigation

Normand

Schneider

Lee

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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This multi-method study provides detailed information about the friendships of 87 children with ADHD (77.0% boys) and 46 comparison children (73.9% boys) between the ages of 7 and 13.The methods used in the study included parent and teacher ratings, self-report measures, and direct observation of friends' dyadic behaviours in three structured analogue tasks. Results indicated that, in contrast with comparison children, children with ADHD had friends with high levels of ADHD and oppositional symptoms; they perceived fewer positive features and more negative features, and were less satisfied in their friendships. Observational data indicated that children with ADHD performed both more legal and more illegal manoeuvres than comparison children in a fast-paced competitive game. While negotiating with their friends, children with ADHD made more insensitive and self-centred proposals than comparison children. In dyads consisting of one child with ADHD and one typically developing child, children with ADHD were often more controlling than their non-diagnosed friends. Globally, these results were robust and did not seem to be affected by age differences, ADHD subtypes, comorbidities, and medication status. Given the increased recognition of ADHD in adolescence and adulthood as well as the fact that negative peer reputation in childhood very strongly predicts mental-health status by early adulthood, this research may lead to the discovery of meaningful ways to help people with ADHD achieve improved mental health and happiness over their lifespan.Friendship Interactions of Children with ADHD 1

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“…Such deficits represent an important target for intervention for this population, as poor peer relationships are predictive of early withdrawal from school and delinquency, as well as anxious and depressive symptoms [Paetsch and Bertrand, 1997;Patterson et al, 1998;Waldrip et al, 2008].…”

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Intervention for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Treatment approaches and case management

Paley¹,

O’Connor²

2009

Dev Disabil Res Revs

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Exposure to alcohol in utero is considered to be the leading cause of developmental disabilities of known etiology. The most severe consequence of such exposure, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), is characterized by a distinct constellation of characteristic facial anomalies, growth retardation, and central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction. Some individuals with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) do not meet the full criteria for FAS, but instead are diagnosed with partial FAS, alcohol related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), or alcohol related birth defects (ARBD). The entire continuum of effects from PAE is increasingly being referred to under the umbrella term of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). An extensive body of research has documented major cognitive, behavioral, adaptive, social, and emotional impairments among individuals with FASDs. Although FAS was identified in the U.S. over 35 years ago, the development, evaluation, and dissemination of evidencebased interventions for individuals with FASDs have lagged behind significantly. Encouragingly, however, in recent years there has been a marked increase in efforts to design and test interventions to remediate the impairments associated with prenatal alcohol exposure. This article will review treatment needs and considerations for individuals with FASDs and their families, current empirically tested treatment approaches, case management issues, and suggestions for future directions in research on the treatment of FASDs. ' 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Dev Disabil Res Rev 200915:258-267.

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With a Little Help from Your Friends: The Importance of High‐quality Friendships on Early Adolescent Adjustment

Cited by 202 publications

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Good Character Is What We Look for in a Friend: Character Strengths Are Positively Related to Peer Acceptance and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescents

Good Character Is What We Look for in a Friend: Character Strengths Are Positively Related to Peer Acceptance and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescents

How Do Children with ADHD (Mis)manage Their Real-Life Dyadic Friendships? A Multi-Method Investigation

Intervention for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Treatment approaches and case management

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