Support-seeking about social relationships with friends is associated with friendship quality, emotional support, and self-disclosure in adolescence.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI:10.1177/02654075251371391

Meghan A Costello, Margaret V Brehm, Ariana J Rivens, Gabrielle L Hunt, Alison G Nagel, Joseph P Allen

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Abstract

Adolescent friendships offer a crucial context for learning to seek social support. Through repeated social support encounters, adolescents take in social information and shape their own development. The current study characterizes adolescents' support-seeking discussion topics with close friends, how the topics are influenced by adolescent age and gender, and how they are related to interpersonal processes in close friendships. A community sample of 184 adolescents (85 boys, 99 girls; 58% white, 29% Black, 13% other identity groups) participated annually from age 13 to 18. Through these six waves of data collection, participants completed a total of 859 support-seeking interactions, from which 10 thematic codes were identified. Support-seeking about socially oriented topics (e.g., conflicts with peers, romantic interests) appeared consistently across adolescence, while participants increasingly discussed future-oriented topics (e.g., considering college or work plans) with their friends as they aged. Selection of socially oriented topics was more common among female dyads and was associated with higher friendship quality, self-disclosure, and emotional support in conversations between adolescent close friends.

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青少年在社交关系中寻求支持与友谊质量、情感支持和自我表露有关。

青少年的友谊为学习寻求社会支持提供了一个重要的背景。通过反复接触社会支持，青少年接受社会信息，塑造自身发展。本研究分析了青少年与亲密朋友寻求支持的讨论话题，话题如何受到青少年年龄和性别的影响，以及它们如何与亲密友谊中的人际关系过程相关。从13岁到18岁，每年有184名青少年（85名男孩，99名女孩；58%白人，29%黑人，13%其他身份群体）参加社区样本。通过这六波数据收集，参与者共完成了859次寻求支持的互动，从中确定了10个主题代码。在整个青少年时期，寻求支持的社会导向话题（如与同龄人的冲突、恋爱兴趣）持续出现，而随着年龄的增长，参与者越来越多地与朋友讨论面向未来的话题（如考虑大学或工作计划）。社会导向话题的选择在女性中更为常见，并且在青春期亲密朋友之间的谈话中与更高的友谊质量、自我表露和情感支持相关。

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187

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships is an international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal that publishes the highest quality original research on social and personal relationships. JSPR is the leading journal in the field, publishing empirical and theoretical papers on social and personal relationships. It is multidisciplinary in scope, drawing material from the fields of social psychology, clinical psychology, communication, developmental psychology, and sociology.