title: Adolescents' emotional reactivity across relationship contexts.
abstract: Adolescents' emotional reactivity in family, close friendships, and romantic relationships was examined in a community-based sample of 416 two-parent families. Six waves of annual data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Emotional reactivity to interparental conflict during early adolescence was associated prospectively with adolescents' reactivity to conflict in friendships and romantic relationships during middle adolescence. Close friendship reactivity partially explained the prospective association between reactivity to interparental conflict and romantic relationship reactivity. The association between perceived emotional reactivity and relationship conflict was stronger for girls than boys. Results have important developmental implications regarding adolescents' emotional reactivity across salient interpersonal contexts during adolescence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, 600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 02908, USA. ecook@ric.edu
authors.forename: Emily C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Buehler
authors.forename: Bethany L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Blair
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions; D054541:Family Conflict; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires