The interplay between adolescent friendship quality and resilient functioning following childhood and adolescent adversity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child and adolescent adversity ('CA') is a major predictor of mental health problems in adolescence and early adulthood. However, not all young people who have experienced CA develop psychopathology; their mental health functioning can be described as resilient. We previously found that resilient functioning in adolescence following CA is facilitated by adolescent friendships.However, during adolescence, friendships undergo significant change. It is unknown whether resilient functioning after CA fluctuates with these normative changes in friendship quality.

Methods

We used Latent Change Score Modelling in a large sample of adolescents (i.e. the ROOTS cohort; N=1238) to examine whether and how emergent friendship quality and resilient functioning at ages 14

SUBMITTER: van Harmelen AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7615274 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature