Citation

Ladd GW, Ettekal I, Kochenderfer-Ladd B, Rudolph KD, Andrews RK. Child Dev. 2014; 85(3): 971-988.

Affiliation

Arizona State University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/cdev.12214

PMID

24397253

Abstract

Adolescents' perceptions of peers' relational characteristics (e.g., support, trustworthiness) were examined for subtypes of youth who evidenced chronic maladaptive behavior, chronic peer group rejection, or combinations of these risk factors. Growth mixture modeling was used to identify subgroups of participants within a normative sample of youth (N = 477; 50% female) for whom data had been gathered from fifth grade (Mage  = 10.61) through eighth grade (Mage  = 13.93). Results revealed that both enduring individual vulnerability (i.e., chronic withdrawn or chronic aggressive behavioral dispositions) and interpersonal adversity (i.e., chronic peer group rejection) were linked with either differences or changes in adolescents' perceptions of their peers' supportiveness and trustworthiness across the early adolescent age period.

Language: en