BACKGROUND Adolescence is a key time period for the emergence of psychosocial and mental health difficulties. To promote adolescent adaptive ('resilient') psychosocial functioning (PSF), appropriate conceptualisation and quantification of such functioning and its predictors is a crucial first step. Here, we quantify resilient functioning as the degree to which an individual functions better or ...

Close friendships become important at middle-school age and are unexplored in adolescents born prematurely. The study aimed to characterize friendship behaviors of formerly preterm infants at age 12 and explore similarities and differences between preterm and full-term peers on dyadic friendship types. From the full sample of N=186, one hundred sixty-six 12-year-old adolescents (40 born full te...

Adolescents' peer experiences may have significant associations with biological stress-response systems, adding to or reducing allostatic load. This study examined relational victimization as a unique contributor to reactive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses as well as friendship quality and behavior as factors that may promote HPA recovery following a stressor. A total of 62 ...

This research aims to determine the metaphorical perceptions of primary school 4th-grade students about friendship. The study group study, which was carried out within scope phenomenology design, one qualitative designs, consisted 144 4th grade studying in a public Istanbul Esenler 2021-2022 academic year. data were obtained through semi-structured interview form (Friendship is like ……… Because...

Abstract The aim of this article is to examine how markets enable companionship be disconnected from the concept friendship thus enabling an illusion without demands friendship. As a crucial early relationship for children, particularly germane world education. It recognises previous lack philosophical attention idea companionship—a key factor in friendship—and that omission contributes clarity...

The social Web is going mobile and needs support for friendship management in a distributed manner, while privacy concerns mandate con guring the public visibility of one's friends. In this paper we leverage existing Web standards to describe a simple P2P protocol for establishing, enforcing, and revoking hidden friendship relations and report on an implementation for a mobile platform. We exam...

This study examined concurrent and longitudinal associations among overt and social forms of aggression, peer status, and friendship quality over an 11-month period. A sample of 559 adolescents (50% girls) in grades 6-8 participated in the study. Participants completed a measure of friendship quality at both time points. Measures of aggression and peer status (preference-based and reputation-ba...

PARKER, JEFFREY G., and SEAL, JOHN. Forming, Losing, and Renewing, and Replacing Friendships: Applying Temporal Parameters to the Assessment of Children's Friendship Experiences. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1966, 67, 2248-2268. Friendship formation and dissolution were tracked over time in a summer camp to examine whether such events are valid indicators of individual differences in children's friendshi...

Friendship 2 The present study assessed the differences in the friendship patterns of nonmedicated children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and children without the disorder. 22 children with ADHD and 23 normal controls and each of their friends completed an interview designed to evaluate their friendship potential, knowledge, skills, expectations, and quality. These childr...

Mothers' perceptions of marital quality and depressed mood and children's attachment security and friendship quality were assessed in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. One month after their birth and again when the children were 3 and 4 years old and in first and third grades, mothers rated the quality of their marital ...