Friend Support and Internalizing Symptoms in Early Adolescence During COVID‐19

Esther L. Bernasco; Stefanie A. Nelemans; Jolien van der Graaff; Susan Branje

doi:10.1111/jora.12662

Friend Support and Internalizing Symptoms in Early Adolescence During COVID‐19

Esther L. Bernasco, Stefanie A. Nelemans, Jolien van der Graaff, Susan Branje

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment and social relationships across the world. This prospective longitudinal study examined whether internalizing problems during the pandemic could be predicted by precrisis friend support, and whether this effect was moderated by the time adolescents spent with their friends and COVID-19-related stress. 245 Dutch adolescents (M_age = 11.60) participated before and during COVID-19. Higher pre-COVID-19 friend support predicted less (self-reported and parent-reported) internalizing problems during COVID-19, and this effect was not moderated by the time adolescents spent with friends or COVID-19-related stress. Friends may thus protect against developing internalizing symptoms in times of crisis. We also found the reverse effect: Internalizing problems before COVID-19 were predictive of friend support during COVID-19.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	692-702
Journal	Journal of Research on Adolescence
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12662
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant of the European Research Council (ERC‐2017‐CoG‐773023 INTRANSITION). Data collection procedure was approved by the Ethics Review Board of the Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences of Utrecht University. All participants and their parents (if they were below the age of 16) gave their informed consent to participation. The scripts for data analyses will be shared on OSF.

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© 2021 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence

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COVID-19
friendship
internalizing problems

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