The Mediational Role of Adolescents' Friends in Relations between Activity Breadth and Adjustment

Autor/inn/en	Simpkins, Sandra D.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Becnel, Jennifer N.
Titel	The Mediational Role of Adolescents' Friends in Relations between Activity Breadth and Adjustment
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 44 (2008) 4, S.1081-1094 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.1081
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Adolescent Development; Friendship; Individual Characteristics; Longitudinal Studies; Grade 8; Grade 9; Grade 11; Peer Mediation; Role; Drinking; Self Esteem; After School Programs; Participation; Adjustment (to Environment) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Freundschaft; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; Peer Group; Mediation; Rollen; Trinken; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Teilnahme
Abstract	This investigation addresses the mediational role of friends' characteristics between adolescents' activity breadth (i.e., variety in activity participation) and their later adjustment. Data were drawn from 2 longitudinal studies: the Childhood and Beyond (CAB; N = 925) study and the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study (MADICS; N = 1,338). Adolescents at Time 2 in each study (8th, 9th, and 11th graders in CAB and 8th graders in MADICS) reported on the breadth of their participation across 5 activity settings: sports, religious, volunteering, community, and school. Friends' characteristics and adolescent adjustment were reported by adolescents at Times 1 and 3. Friends' positive characteristics significantly mediated relations between activity breadth and adolescent depressive affect, self-worth, alcohol use, and problem behavior in both studies. Friends' negative characteristics significantly mediated these relations in CAB, but not in MADICS. (Contains 1 figure, 4 tables, and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10