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The Timing of Middle‐Childhood Peer Rejection and Friendship: Linking Early Behavior to Early‐Adolescent Adjustment

The Timing of Middle‐Childhood Peer Rejection and Friendship: Linking Early Behavior to... This study used a sample of 551 children surveyed yearly from ages 6 to 13 to examine the longitudinal associations among early behavior, middle‐childhood peer rejection and friendedness, and early‐adolescent depressive symptoms, loneliness, and delinquency. The study tested a sequential mediation hypothesis in which (a) behavior problems in the early school years are associated with middle‐childhood peer rejection and (b) rejection, in turn, leads to lower friendedness and subsequently higher adolescent internalizing—but not externalizing—problems. Results supported this sequential mediation model for internalizing outcomes and revealed an additional path from early disruptiveness to loneliness via peer rejection alone. No evidence of sequential mediation was observed for delinquency. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Child Development Wiley

The Timing of Middle‐Childhood Peer Rejection and Friendship: Linking Early Behavior to Early‐Adolescent Adjustment

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0009-3920
eISSN
1467-8624
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01051.x
pmid
17650124
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Abstract

This study used a sample of 551 children surveyed yearly from ages 6 to 13 to examine the longitudinal associations among early behavior, middle‐childhood peer rejection and friendedness, and early‐adolescent depressive symptoms, loneliness, and delinquency. The study tested a sequential mediation hypothesis in which (a) behavior problems in the early school years are associated with middle‐childhood peer rejection and (b) rejection, in turn, leads to lower friendedness and subsequently higher adolescent internalizing—but not externalizing—problems. Results supported this sequential mediation model for internalizing outcomes and revealed an additional path from early disruptiveness to loneliness via peer rejection alone. No evidence of sequential mediation was observed for delinquency.

Journal

Child DevelopmentWiley

Published: Jul 1, 2007

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