Reciprocal, longitudinal associations among adolescents' negative feedback-seeking, depressive symptoms, and peer relations.
This study examined reciprocal associations among adolescents' negative feedback-seeking, depressive symptoms, perceptions of friendship quality, and peer-reported social preference over an 11-month period. A total of 478 adolescents in grades 6-8 completed measures of negative feedback-seeking, depressive symptoms, friendship quality, global-self-esteem, and social anxiety at two time points. Peer-reported measures of peer status were collected using a sociometric procedure. Consistent with hypotheses, path analyses results suggested that negative feedback-seeking was associated longitudinally with depressive symptoms and perceptions of friendship criticism in girls and with lower social preference scores in boys; however, depressive symptoms were not associated longitudinally with negative feedback-seeking. Implications for interpersonal models of adolescent depression are discussed.
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. jessica.borelli@yale.edu
Jessica L
JL
Borelli
Mitchell J
MJ
Prinstein
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010379:Peer Group; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior; D012963:Sociometric Techniques; D014481:United States