Friendships in flux: A daily examination of friend continuity and associations with adolescent mood.

IF 3.1 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Developmental Psychology Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI:10.1037/dev0002014

Alexandra D Ehrhardt, Adam J Hoffman, Hannah L Schacter

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Abstract

Although maintaining stable friendships is an important developmental task for adolescents, there is limited understanding of whether adolescents' friendships vary from day to day and predict changes in emotional well-being. Therefore, the current daily diary study aimed to characterize the day-to-day consistency of adolescents' close friendships and investigate whether feeling close to the same friends from 1 day to the next (daily friend continuity) predicted daily mood. Fourteen consecutive days of friendship nominations and mood assessments were collected from 195 11^th-grade students (M_age = 16.48; SD_age = 0.53; 66% female). Variability statistics (intraclass correlations, root mean square of successive differences) indicated considerable fluctuations in the consistency of friendship closeness as perceived by adolescents across 2 weeks. Results from multilevel models demonstrated that greater friend continuity was associated with greater positive mood, but not negative mood, at both the within- and between-person level. The findings reveal inconsistency in whom adolescents feel closest over 2 weeks and suggest that maintaining closeness with the same friends from 1 day to the next bolsters adolescents' short-term emotional well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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不断变化的友谊：朋友连续性的日常检查及其与青少年情绪的联系。

虽然维持稳定的友谊对青少年来说是一项重要的发展任务，但对于青少年的友谊是否每天都在变化，以及是否能预测情绪健康的变化，人们的理解有限。因此，目前的日常日记研究旨在描述青少年亲密友谊的日常一致性，并调查从一天到下一天与同一个朋友的亲密感（日常朋友连续性）是否预测了每天的情绪。连续14天收集了195名11年级学生的友谊提名和情绪评估(Mage = 16.48；SDage = 0.53；66%的女性)。变异性统计（班级内相关性，连续差异的均方根）表明，青少年在两周内感知到的友谊亲密度的一致性有相当大的波动。多层次模型的结果表明，在人际和人际层面上，朋友连续性越强，积极情绪越强，而消极情绪越强。研究结果揭示了青少年在两周内感觉最亲密的人的不一致性，并表明从一天到下一天与同一个朋友保持亲密关系有助于青少年的短期情绪健康。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Developmental Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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5.80

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2.50%

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329

期刊介绍： Developmental Psychology ® publishes articles that significantly advance knowledge and theory about development across the life span. The journal focuses on seminal empirical contributions. The journal occasionally publishes exceptionally strong scholarly reviews and theoretical or methodological articles. Studies of any aspect of psychological development are appropriate, as are studies of the biological, social, and cultural factors that affect development. The journal welcomes not only laboratory-based experimental studies but studies employing other rigorous methodologies, such as ethnographies, field research, and secondary analyses of large data sets. We especially seek submissions in new areas of inquiry and submissions that will address contradictory findings or controversies in the field as well as the generalizability of extant findings in new populations. Although most articles in this journal address human development, studies of other species are appropriate if they have important implications for human development. Submissions can consist of single manuscripts, proposed sections, or short reports.