@article{ref1,
title="Evaluating the psychological concomitants of other-sex crush experiences during early adolescence",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2016",
author="Bowker, Julie C. and Etkin, Rebecca G.",
volume="45",
number="5",
pages="846-857",
abstract="Very little empirical attention has been paid to other-sex crush experiences during adolescence. As a result, it is not known whether such experiences, which appear to be relatively common, impact psychological adjustment outcomes. This two-wave (3 month interval) longitudinal study of 268 young adolescents (48 % girls; M age at Time 1 = 11.84 years) examined the psychological concomitants of other-sex crush experiences (having and being viewed by others as a crush). Anxious-withdrawal and gender were evaluated as moderators. Peer nomination measures at Time 1 assessed both types of crush experiences and mutual friendship involvement, and participants completed self-report measures of loneliness and depressive symptoms at Times 1 and 2. The results from regression analyses revealed significant associations between having an other-sex crush and depressive symptoms at Time 1 and loneliness at Time 2, after accounting for the effects of mutual friendship. Two interaction effects also revealed that crush status was a risk factor for depressive symptoms at low levels of anxious-withdrawal but a protective factor at high levels. The findings provide the first empirical evidence that other-sex crush experiences are developmentally significant during early adolescence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-016-0470-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0470-x"
}