Reciprocal influences among relational self-views, social disengagement, and peer stress during early adolescence.
This study examined reciprocal-influence models of the association between relational self-views and peer stress during early adolescence. The first model posited that adolescents with negative self-views disengage from peers, creating stress in their relationships. The second model posited that exposure to peer stress fosters social disengagement, which elicits negative self-views. Participants were 605 early adolescents (M age = 11.7). As part of a 3-wave longitudinal study adolescents reported on self-views and stress, and teachers reported on social disengagement. As hypothesized, negative self-views predicted social disengagement, which contributed to peer stress. Stress predicted subsequent disengagement and negative self-views. These findings suggest that adolescents and their environments participate in reciprocal-influence processes that account for cross-temporal continuity in personal attributes of youth and their social experiences.
Caldwell
Melissa S
MS
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 61820, USA.
Rudolph
Karen D
KD
Troop-Gordon
Wendy
W
Kim
Do-Yeong
DY
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D012918:Social Alienation; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*