Support-seeking about social relationships with friends is associated with friendship quality, emotional support, and self-disclosure in adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Adolescent friendships offer a crucial context for learning to seek social support. Through repeated social support encounters, adolescents take in social information and shape their own development. The current study characterizes adolescents' support-seeking discussion topics with close friends, how the topics are influenced by adolescent age and gender, and how they are related to interpersonal processes in close friendships. A community sample of 184 adolescents (85 boys, 99 girls; 58% white, 29% Black, 13% other identity groups) participated annually from age 13 to 18. Through these six waves of data collection, participants completed a total of 859 support-seeking interactions, from which 10 thematic codes were identified. Support-seeking about socially oriented topics (e.g.,

SUBMITTER: Costello MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12478559 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature