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• Problems in interpersonal relationships, leading to aversive experiences in
social interactions, have previously been identified as risk factors for
depression (Coyne, 1976a, 1976b).
• Little has been explored with regard to specific interaction styles within
adolescent friendships, and the current study focuses on adolescents’ close
friends’ patterns of dealing with conflict
• Adolescent preoccupation has been most closely linked to internalizing
symptoms, including depression, in past research (Kobak et al., 1991; Rosenstein & Horowitz,
1996).
• The hyperactivated state of the attachment system in preoccupied adolescents
often leads them to be sensitive and reactive to social situations (Main et al, 2002;
McElhaney et al., 2006)
• A promising pattern of findings suggest that adolescent preoccupied
attachment interacts with various psychosocial and environmental factors
to predict important outcomes (Allen et al., 1998; Allen et al., 2002, Marsh et al., 2003)
Research Questions:
• Does the current study support existing research suggesting an association
between adolescent preoccupation and depression?
• How do particular interaction styles within adolescent friendships, specifically
close friends’ approaches to handling conflict, affect teens’ depressive
symptoms over time?
• Because highly preoccupied teens may be overly sensitive to their social
environments, how will adolescent preoccupation interact with these patterns
of conflict resolution to predict changes in depressive symptoms over time?
Preoccupied States of Mind Regarding Attachment
- Teens’ level of preoccupation was measured using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996), a semi-structured interview designed to probe for descriptions of early childhood experiences
- The AAI Q-set (Kobak et al., 1993) was then employed to yield continuous adolescent preoccupation scores
Strategies of Conflict Negotiation in Friendships
- Close friends’ conflict avoidance behaviors and friends’ use of
overpersonalizing strategies were assessed during a videotaped teen-
close friend conflict task. Interactions were coded using the
Autonomy-Relatedness Coding System for Peers (Allen et al., 2001).
- The avoidance scale includes friend behaviors such as giving in easily,
deferring to the teens’ opinions and never pushing hard for a position.
- The overpersonalizing scale measures the degree to which close friends
treated the disagreement as a win-lose situation, referenced teens’
personal characteristics, and used guilt-inducing statements as part of
their reasoning.
•Coyne, J. C. (1976a). Toward an interactional description of depression. Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes, 39(1), 28-40.•Coyne, J. C. (1976b). Depression and the response of others. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85(2), 186-193.•Allen, J.P., Marsh, P., McFarland, F.C., McElhaney, K.B., Land, D. & Jodl, K. (2002). Attachment and autonomy as predictors of the development of social skills and delinquency during midadolescence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 56-66. •Allen, J.P., Moore, C.M., Kuperminc, G.P. & Bell, K.L. (1998). Attachment and adolescent psychosocial functioning. Child Development, 69, 1406-1419.•Allen, J. P., Porter, M. R., & McFarland, C. F. (2001). The autonomy and relatedness coding system for peer interactions. University of Virginia: Charlottesville, Virginia.•Kobak, R. R., Cole, H. E., Ferenz-Gillies, R., Fleming, W. S., & Gamble, W. (1993). Attachment and emotion regulation during mother-teen problem-solving: A control theory analysis. Child Development, 64, 231-245.•George, C., Kaplan, N., & Main, M. (1996). Adult attachment interview (third edition). Unpublished Manuscript. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.•Kovacs, M., & Beck, A. T. (1977). An empirical clinical approach toward a definition of childhood depression. New York: Raven Press.•Beck, A. T., & Steer, R. A. (1987). Beck depression inventory manual. New York: The Psychological Corporation.•Main, M., Goldwyn, R., & Hesse, E. (2002). Adult attachment scoring and classification systems, version 7.1. Unpublished Manuscript. Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.•McElhaney, K. B., Immele, A., Smith, F. D., & Allen, J. P. (2006). Attachment organization as a moderator of the link between peer relationships and adolescent delinquency. Attachment & Human Development, 8, 33-46.•Marsh, P., McFarland, F. C., Allen, J. P., McElhaney, K. B., & Land, D. J. (2003). Attachment, autonomy, and multifinality in adolescent internalizing and risky behavioral symptoms. Development and Psychopathology, 15(2), 451-467.•Kobak, R. R., Sudler, N., & Gamble, W. (1991). Attachment and depressive symptoms during adolescence: A developmental pathways analysis. Development & Psychopathology, 3(4), 461-474.•Rosenstein, D. S., & Horowitz, H. A. (1996). Adolescent attachment and psychopathology. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 64(2), 244-253
Participants • Data were drawn from a longitudinal, multi-method study of adolescent development within the context of familial and peer relationships
• 184 adolescents (86 male and 98 female) were first interviewed at age 13.4 with their same sex close friends, and the Adolescent Attachment Interview was administered one year later
• Target adolescents were then re-interviewed five years later at age 18.3
• Target teens: 58% Caucasian and 42% minority or mixed ethnic group
MeasuresSelf-reported depressive symptoms
- Teens’ initial level of depression was assessed using the Childhood Depression Inventory (CDI; Kovacs & Beck, 1977).
- Five years later, teens’ depressive symptoms were then re-assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck & Steer, 1897).
BACKGROUND
METHODS
RESULTS
CONCLUSIONS
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Results also revealed:
1) Main effects for both friends’ use of overpersonalizing tactics (B = 0.18, p < .05) and
teen preoccupation predicting relative increases in depressive symptoms over time
2) A significant interaction between friends’ use of overpersonalizing strategies and teen
preoccupation, such that friends’ overpersonalizing behaviors strongly predicted
relative increases in depressive symptoms, only for adolescents who were highly
preoccupied (B = 0.15, p < .05, Total R2 = 0.19)
ATTACHMENT ORGANIZATION AND PATTERNS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN FRIENDSHIPS PREDICTING ADOLESCENTS’
DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS OVER TIMEJoanna M. Chango, Kathleen McElhaney & Joseph P. Allen
University of VirginiaThis study was made possible by funding from The National Institute of Mental Health awarded to Joseph P. Allen, Principal Investigator (Grant #R01-MH58066)
• Context matters for highly preoccupied adolescents, such that specific
friendship patterns have been shown to influence the course of depressive
symptoms over a five-year period.
• Intense and enmeshing interactions with peers where personal attacks
and emotionally charged arguments are displayed may be particularly
problematic for preoccupied teens.
• Adolescent preoccupation does not inevitably contribute to increases in
depression. Situations in which highly preoccupied teens feel they have
mastery and control over their social environments are helpful in
buffering depressive symptoms.
• These results hold important implications for psychosocial interventions
meant to improve adolescents’ mental health through social skills training.
A series of hierarchical regressions using Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)
revealed:
1) Main effects for both friends’ avoidance predicting relative decreases in depression over time
(B = -0.18, p < .05) and teen preoccupation predicting relative increases (B = 0.17, p < .05).
2) A significant interaction between conflict avoidance and preoccupation, such that friends’
avoidance of conflict was a strong predictor of relative decreases in depressive symptoms,
only for adolescents who were highly preoccupied (B= -0.17, p < .05, Total R2 = 0.19).
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