The importance of friendship and family support in adaptation for 241 elders experiencing age-related vision loss was examined. Adaptation was operationalized with two global measures of psychological well-being (life satisfaction, depressive symptoms) and a domain-specific measure, adaptation to vision loss. Hierarchical regression analyses tested the effects of sociodemographic, vision, healt...

The present study investigated the associations between social skills, friendship quality, and happiness, and tested a mediational model positing that friendship quality would mediate the relationship between social skills and happiness among American and Malaysian college students. Although American students reported significantly higher levels of psychosocial well-being than Malaysian student...

This study was designed to describe the conflict resolution practices used in Mexican American adolescents' friendships, to explore the role of cultural orientations and values and gender-typed personality qualities in conflict resolution use, and to assess the connections between conflict resolution and friendship quality. Participants were 246 Mexican American adolescents (M = 12.77 years of ...

A transactional, interpersonal framework involving adolescents' reassurance-seeking and peer experiences may be useful for understanding the emergence of gender differences in depression prevalence during the adolescent transition. Sociometric nominations of peer acceptance/rejection and ratings of friendship quality provided by adolescents and their friends were used to measure peer experience...

Individuals higher in social anxiety report more impaired friendship quality, which past research suggests may stem from constrained warmth. We examined three motivations for constrained warmth in friendships and determined how these motivations related to social anxiety and friendship impairment. To do so, we assessed the psychometric properties of the Favor Scale (FS), which measures an indiv...

Co-ruminating, or excessively discussing problems, with friends is proposed to have adjustment tradeoffs. Co-rumination is hypothesized to contribute both to positive friendship adjustment and to problematic emotional adjustment. Previous single-assessment research was consistent with this hypothesis, but whether co-rumination is an antecedent of adjustment changes was unknown. A 6-month longit...

Title: A Decade of Road Traffic Fatalities among the Elderly in North-West Iran Authors: Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani ([email protected]) Bahram Samadirad ([email protected]) Farnaz Moslemi ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 05 Nov 2016 Author’s response to reviews: Thanks for the comments. Following are responses. 1. Please add a statement in the manuscript indicat...

The study of relationship antecedents of externalizing behavior problems has primarily focused on potentially harmful aspects of relationships such as conflict and hostility. Although a large body of literature has investigated the role of family and peer relationships in the development of externalizing behavior problems, few research efforts have focused on studying these relationship domains...

Purpose: This study was designed to examine how youths’ perceptions of their relationships with parents and peers independently and in combination predict motivational outcomes in youth sport. Method: Youth soccer players (NZ186) completed survey measures tapping perceptions of parent–child relationship quality, friendship quality, and peer acceptance relative to the soccer context as well as s...