Adolescent social learning within supportive friendships: Self-disclosure and relationship quality from adolescence to adulthood.

ABSTRACT: This study examines links between self-disclosure and relationship quality with close friends from adolescence to adulthood. A diverse community sample of adolescents (N = 184) participated in survey and observational measures annually from ages 13 through 29, along with their close friends and romantic partners. Random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling (RICLPM) was used to parse markers of within-individual change from age 13 to 18. Long-term longitudinal path models also investigated cascading associations among self-disclosure and relationship quality, on aggregate, from adolescence to adulthood. Adolescents who reported a higher-quality friendship in a given year demonstrated greater-than-expected increases in self-disclosure the following year, and an adolescent demonstrated high

SUBMITTER: Costello MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11349471 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature