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“Adolescents who feel depressed are rejected but do not withdraw: A longitudinal study of ethnically diverse friendship networks in England, Sweden, and Germany”

SSM: Population Health, 2021
Adolescents who feel depressed are likely to experience social isolation from friends. Previous studies have put forward at least four hypotheses that can account for the association between felt depression and social isolation.
Olov Aronson, Daniel Bergh
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Adolescent Depressive Symptoms and Peer Dynamics: Distorted Perceptions in Liking and Disliking Networks [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
Depression in adolescents has been linked to poor life outcomes, including suicidal ideation, peer victimization, and fewer friendships. Less is known about how depressed adolescents perceive their peer interactions.
Diego Palacios, Silvia Caldaroni, Christian Berger, Daniele Di Tata, Davide Barrera   +4 more
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The role of defenders' and victims' popularity in the effectiveness of defending in bullying interactions: A longitudinal social network study. [PDF]

J Res Adolesc
Abstract Peer defending is widely promoted as a strategy to reduce bullying, but few studies have investigated whether having more defenders decreases victimization over time from the victim's perspective. This social network study examined the longitudinal association between nominating more defenders and subsequent victimization among (early ...
Richters S, van Zalk MHW, Veenstra R, Laninga-Wijnen L.   +3 more
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A short-term longitudinal study linking adolescents' metacognition, learning, and social friendship networks. [PDF]

J Res Adolesc
Abstract Adolescents' metacognitive skills and social relationships play key roles in learning but are often studied in isolation. This study investigated the links between metacognition, learning performance, and classroom friendship networks in a sample of 136 seventh‐grade students from Switzerland (53.8% female; mean age 13.8 years) assessed at two
van Loon M, Laninga-Wijnen L.
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On the spurious effect of intergroup friendship on outgroup attitudes in schools: The role of social influence and the positive impact of exposure to outgroup peers. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Abstract Promoting intergroup friendships in schools is regarded as a powerful strategy for improving outgroup attitudes. However, stochastic actor‐oriented modelling (SAOM) studies have often revealed no association between intergroup friendship and outgroup attitudes.
Zingora T.
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How does ethnic minority youth's dual self-identification affect the formation of interethnic ties in friendship networks? [PDF]

J Res Adolesc
Abstract In an increasingly ethnically diverse Europe, this study examined the potential of dual identifiers, those identifying with both a national majority and an ethnic minority, such as German–Turkish individuals, to facilitate integration. As members of two groups, dual identifiers may be in the advantageous position to form more interethnic ...
Chen L, Stark TH, Nijs T, Jaspers E.
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Friends' Influence on Academic Performance Among Early Adolescents: The Role of Social Status

Psykhe, 2022
Educational research has shown that academic achievement and peer relationships are associated from early school years, where friends play a significant role in influencing students' school adjustment, attitudes, and behaviors. The present study examines
Diego Palacios, Christian Berger
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A tutorial for modeling the evolution of network dynamics for multiple groups

Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023
Researchers have been increasingly taking advantage of the stochastic actor-oriented modeling framework as a method to analyze the evolution of network ties.
Andrew Pilny, Luisa Ruge-Jones, Marshall Scott Poole   +2 more
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Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co‐evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks

Child Development, Volume 94, Issue 6, Page 1531-1549, November/December 2023., 2023
Abstract This study examined whether having vulnerable friends helps or hurts victimized and depressed (i.e., vulnerable) adolescents and whether this depends on classroom supportive norms. Students (n = 1461, 46.7% girls, 93.4% Han nationality) were surveyed four times from seventh and eighth grade (Mage = 13 years) in 2015 and 2016 in Central China ...
Xingna Qin, Lydia Laninga‐Wijnen, Christian Steglich, Yunyun Zhang, Ping Ren, René Veenstra   +5 more
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Disentangling dyadic and reputational perceptions of prosociality, aggression, and popularity in explaining friendship networks in early adolescence

Social Development, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 699-714, August 2022., 2022
Abstract This study examined the differential effects of two forms of adolescents’ perceptions of peers’ prosociality, aggression, and popularity, on friendship selection. Individuals’ reports of their peers’ behaviors (dyadic perceptions) and the aggregated classmates’ reports (reputational perceptions) were disentangled.
Diego Palacios, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra, Christian Berger, Mark Huisman, René Veenstra   +4 more
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