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Mund, Marcus; Weidmann, Rebekka; Wrzus, Cornelia; Johnson, Matthew D.; Bühler, Janina Larissa; Burriss, Robert Philip; Wünsche, Jenna; Grob, Alexander – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Loneliness describes a perceived deficiency in quantitative or qualitative aspects of individuals' social relationships. Whereas the health-related consequences of loneliness are well-documented, surprisingly little is known about its interpersonal features and its consequences for relationship outcomes. In the present study, we investigated the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Correlation, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship
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Coplan, Robert J.; McVarnock, Alicia; Hipson, Will E.; Bowker, Julie C. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
In this study, we examined how technology impacts adolescents' perceptions of, and affective responses to solitude, as well as how adolescents' own motivations for solitude (shyness, affinity for aloneness) were related to these reactions. Participants were N = 437 adolescents (297 girls; M[subscript age] = 16.15 years, standard deviation (SD) =…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Media, Shyness
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Marguerite Beattie; Noona Kiuru; Katariina Salmela-Aro – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
While loneliness for short periods of time is normal, prolonged loneliness has severe health risks. This study aims to discover what loneliness trajectories can be found in a cohort of adolescents, how belongingness to different groups may be associated with these trajectories, and the mental, physical, and academic consequences of these…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Psychological Patterns, Sense of Belonging, Interpersonal Relationship
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Matthews, Timothy; Fisher, Helen L.; Bryan, Bridget T.; Danese, Andrea; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Qualter, Pamela; Verity, Lily; Arseneault, Louise – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
The present study used quantitative and qualitative methods to explore how lonely young people are seen from others' perspectives, in terms of their personality, behavior, and life circumstances. Data were drawn from the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, a cohort of 2,232 individuals born in the U.K. in the mid-1990s. When participants…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Young Adults, At Risk Persons
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Pearce, Ellie; Barreto, Manuela; Victor, Christina; Hammond, Claudia; Eccles, Alice M.; Richins, Matthew T.; O'Neil, Alisha; Knowles, Megan L.; Qualter, Pamela – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Previous experimental work showed that young adults reporting loneliness performed less well on emotion recognition tasks (Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy [DANVA-2]) if they were framed as indicators of social aptitude, but not when the same tasks were framed as indexing academic aptitude. Such findings suggested that undergraduates…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Age Differences, Social Influences, Emotional Response
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Tsang, Vivian H. L.; Tse, Dwight C. K.; Chu, Li; Fung, Helene H.; Mai, Chunyan; Zhang, Hanyu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Lack of social interaction is associated with a heightened sense of loneliness and, in turn, poorer psychological well-being. Despite the prevalence of communicating with others virtually even when physically alone, whether the social interaction--loneliness--well-being relationship is different between face-to-face and virtual interactions and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hawkley, Louise C.; Buecker, Susanne; Kaiser, Till; Luhmann, Maike – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Prior research in non-U.S. samples has found a complex nonlinear relationship between loneliness and age. This research has shown that established predictors of loneliness--poor health, being unmarried, living alone, and having infrequent social interactions--help to explain age differences in loneliness. However, while some variables were found…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Predictor Variables, Age Differences, Adults
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Dewitte, Laura; Martin, Annika; Allemand, Mathias; Hill, Patrick L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Being securely attached and willing to forgive your partner tends to promote greater relationship success. Though attachment and partner forgiveness are associated cross-sectionally, research has yet to investigate whether and how these positive relationship factors tend to codevelop over time. The current study examined cross-lagged effects and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Security (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Interpersonal Relationship
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Kawabata, Yoshito; Crick, Nicki R.; Hamaguchi, Yoshikazu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
The purpose of this study was (1) to evaluate psychometric properties that assess forms of aggression (i.e., relational and physical aggression) across cultures (i.e., Japan and the United States) and (2) to investigate the role of culture in the associations between forms of aggression and social-psychological adjustment problems such as…
Descriptors: Aggression, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship
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Xu, Yiyuan; Farver, Jo Ann M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
This paper reports on two exploratory studies of situations that elicit shyness in Mainland Chinese children. In Study 1 (N = 100; M[subscript age] = 10.42) interviews with Chinese children identified three kinds of shyness-eliciting situations: social novelty; negative social evaluation; and public attention. In Study 2 (N = 162, M[subscript age]…
Descriptors: Shyness, Asian Culture, Children, Psychological Patterns
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Seginer, Rachel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Drawing on the importance of future orientation for adolescent development this analysis presents a model describing how future orientation is affected by high challenge (or resilience) in the face of political violence. The analysis consists of three parts. The first two present future orientation conceptualization and the psychological processes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Futures (of Society), Models
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Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
The aim of this study has been to examine the effect of retrospective report of political violence during the first Intifada (1987-1993) on psychological adjustment of 1185 Palestinian adolescents (10th to 12th graders) seven years after the first Intifada had ended. Analysis of the inter-relations was conducted between self-reported measures of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Adolescents, Grade 12, Depression (Psychology)