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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 5, Pages 1355-1365Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0027484
Keywords
depression; anxiety; contagion; co-rumination; friendship
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH073590-01A1, R03 MH063753-01, R01 MH 073590, F31 MH081619-01A2, F31 MH081619, R01 MH073590, F31 MH 081619, R03 MH63753-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Peer contagion of internalizing symptoms was examined within youths' friendships over 6 months. Children (Grades 3 and 5) and adolescents (Grades 7 and 9) paired in 274 reciprocal same-sex friendship dyads completed measures of depressive and anxiety symptoms, co-rumination, and self-disclosure. Depression contagion was present for all youth, and anxiety contagion was found in the sample of girls and older boys. Although normative self-disclosure did not mediate the contagion effects, co-rumination mediated the depression contagion effect for adolescents and the anxiety contagion effect in the sample of girls and older boys. Implications for interventions with youth at risk for developing internalizing symptoms are discussed.
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