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ERIC Number: EJ1484097
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Nov
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0272-4316
EISSN: EISSN-1552-5449
Available Date: 0000-00-00
The Relationship between Perceived Friendship Quality and Self-Judgements in Adolescent Girls from London
Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer1; Jessica Evans1; Katy Ratcliffe1; Kaushalya Janaarthanan1; Saz Ahmed2; Willem Kuyken3; Tim Dalgleish4; Sarah-Jayne Blakemore1,2
Journal of Early Adolescence, v45 n9 p1183-1211 2025
Understanding ourselves within our peer environment is an important component of self-development during adolescence, the period of life between the onset of puberty and adulthood (between ages 10 and 24 years). We used a self-appraisal paradigm to investigate cross-sectionally the relationship between perceived friendship quality and self-judgements in adolescent girls. One hundred and sixty-three girls (9-15 years), recruited from London, United Kingdom, rated how well a set of positive and negative adjectives described themselves, or a chosen familiar other. Participants also completed a self-report friendship quality questionnaire. Higher perceived friendship quality predicted lower negative self-judgements and higher positive self-judgements. These relationships did not change across the age range tested, but there was an overall decrease in positivity effect (higher positive judgements compared to negative judgements) with age. These findings highlight the importance of investigating how different components of peer relationships are related to self-concept development in adolescence.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (London)
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Raven Progressive Matrices
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Author Affiliations: 1University of Cambridge, UK; 2University College London, UK; 3University of Oxford, UK; 4MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, UK