TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Aggression and depression in Chinese early adolescents: same-domain and cross-domain effects in friendships
JO  - Research on child and adolescent psychopathology
A1  - Zhou, Jiaxi
A1  - Chen, Xinyin
A1  - Li, Dan
A1  - Liu, Junsheng
A1  - Wei, Luhao
A1  - Yang, Panpan
A1  - French, Doran
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2730-7166
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-01001-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -