@article{ref1,
title="Girls get by with a little help from their friends: gender differences in protective effects of social support for psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2018",
author="Crush, Eloise and Arseneault, Louise and Fisher, Helen L.",
volume="53",
number="12",
pages="1413-1417",
abstract="PURPOSE: To investigate whether social support is protective for psychotic experiences similarly among poly-victimised adolescent girls and boys. <br><br>METHODS: We utilised data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally-representative sample of 2232 UK-born twins. Participants were privately interviewed at age 18 about victimisation, psychotic experiences, and social support during adolescence. <br><br>RESULTS: Perceived social support (overall and from friends) was found to be protective against psychotic experiences amongst poly-victimised adolescent girls, but not boys. Though boys were similarly protected by family support. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Social support-focused interventions targeting psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents may be more effective for girls.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6"
}