Support and Conflict Among Youth With Type 1 Diabetes: A Focus on Friends.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of the study was to examine the relations of general and diabetes-specific friend support and conflict to psychological and diabetes health among youth with type 1 diabetes. We examined gender as a moderator of these relations, and friend responsiveness and information-sharing as potential mediators.

Methods

Youth with type 1 diabetes (n = 167; M age 15.83 [SD = 0.78]; 50% female) were interviewed once in the Fall and once in the following Spring of the school year. Using multiple regression analysis, general friend support, general friend conflict, diabetes-specific support, and diabetes-specific conflict were investigated as simultaneous predictors of psychological and diabetes outcomes cross-sectionally and longitudinally over four months.

Results

SUBMITTER: Helgeson VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10653353 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature