@article{ref1,
title="Aggression and depression in Chinese early adolescents: same-domain and cross-domain effects in friendships",
journal="Research on child and adolescent psychopathology",
year="2022",
author="Zhou, Jiaxi and Chen, Xinyin and Li, Dan and Liu, Junsheng and Wei, Luhao and Yang, Panpan and French, Doran",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="From late childhood, friendships as a distinct peer experience become increasingly salient in affecting individual development. This one-year longitudinal study examined same-domain and cross-domain effects of aggression and depression in friendships among early adolescents in China. Participants included 226 students (95 boys) within 113 friendship dyads initially in sixth grade (initial mean age = 12 years) in two public junior high schools. Data on aggression, depression, and friendship were collected from self-reports and peer nominations in 2017 and 2018. The results using the actor-partner interdependence model showed that friends' aggression positively predicted adolescents' later aggression and that friends' depression positively predicted adolescents' later depression, indicating same-domain contagion effects. In addition, friends' aggression positively predicted adolescents' later depression, indicating cross-domain cascading effects. The results suggest that adolescents with more aggressive friends are at risk for developing higher levels of social-behavioral and psychological problems with time. The results help understand the role of friendships in individual maladaptive development and are discussed in terms of the Chinese context.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2730-7166",
doi="10.1007/s10802-022-01001-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-01001-4"
}