Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 727-733.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.06.11

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Prospective Links between Adolescent Friendship Qualities and Social Anxiety: A Cross-Lagged Analysis

ZHONG Ping, DENG Huihua, ZHANG Guangzhen, LIANG Zongbao, LU Zuhong   

  1. Research Center for Learning Science/Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • Online:2017-11-15 Published:2017-11-15

Abstract: The current three-wave longitudinal study aimed to examine prospectively reciprocal links between friendship quality and social anxiety and the dynamic changes during a three-year period in junior high school. Cross-lagged regression analyses revealed that lower levels of friendship affection-satisfactory factor at Grade 8 could significantly predict the increase in social anxiety at Grade 9. Higher social anxiety could significantly predict the decrease in friendship affection-satisfactory factor next year during the three years. In contrast the longitudinally reciprocal relationship was not true for friendship conflict factor during the three years. These results indicated that there is a prospectively reciprocal link between friendship affection-satisfactory factor and social anxiety among adolescents. Additionally, the link shows a dynamic change across the three academic years.

Key words: adolescents, friendship quality, social anxiety, longitudinal design, cross-lagged regression analysis

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