%0 Journal Article
%T Internalizing Symptoms and Friendship Stability: Longitudinal Actor
%A Davide Marengo
%A Emanuela Rabaglietti
%A Franca Tani
%J The Journal of Early Adolescence
%@ 1552-5449
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0272431617704953
%X The present study investigated the stability of friendship nominations over the course of a school year as a function of early adolescentsĄŻ and their classroom best friendsĄŻ internalizing symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, and somatization). Sample consisted of 156 early adolescents (57.1% female; X Ą„ age = 12.62; SD = 0.62) involved in 78 same-sex best friendship dyads. We assessed best friendship (classroom) nominations at beginning (T1) and end (T2) of the school year. Results of longitudinal analyses performed with the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model indicated adolescentsĄŻ and their classroom best friendsĄŻ depressive symptoms predicted lower stability of best friendships over time, whereas best friendsĄŻ somatization emerged as a predictor of higher friendship stability. In addition, positive dyadic friendship quality predicted greater stability over time. These findings highlight the importance of employing a dyadic framework when examining the role of internalizing symptoms in friendship stability
%K friendships
%K dyadic relationships
%K peer relationships
%K internalizing symptoms
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272431617704953