@article{ref1,
title="Friendship interactions in children with and without depressive symptoms: observation of emotion during game-playing interactions and post-game evaluations",
journal="Journal of abnormal child psychology",
year="2007",
author="Rockhill, Carol M. and Fan, Ming-Yu and Katon, W. J. and McCauley, Elizabeth and Crick, Nicki R. and Pleck, Joseph H.",
volume="35",
number="3",
pages="429-441",
abstract="This observational study supplements the strong and consistent link found between childhood depression and deficits in interpersonal functioning by examining the relationship between a high versus low score on the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) and children's emotions when interacting with their best friends. High-CDI and low-CDI target children (n=86) were paired for videotaped game-playing with self-reported best friends. Researchers found that although high-CDI target children were not distinguishable from low-CDI peers in their displays of positive and negative emotion. However, the partners of high-CDI target children displayed significantly more negative emotion during the competitive task and significantly less positive emotion during the cooperative task than did partners of low-CDI target children. In addition, high-CDI target children and their partners reported less enjoyment of their interactions than low-CDI target children and their partners. This combination of findings suggests that depressive symptoms were associated with a relative lack of success achieving an optimal friendship interaction even under highly favorable conditions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0627",
doi="10.1007/s10802-007-9101-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-007-9101-z"
}