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Best friend attachment versus peer attachment in the prediction of adolescent psychological adjustment
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This study examined the utility of the newly developed Adolescent Friendship Attachment Scale (AFAS) for the prediction of adolescent psychological health and school attitude. High school students (266 males, 229 females) were recruited from private and public schools in the Australian Capital Territory with ages of participants ranging from 13 to 19 years. Self-report measures of depression, self-esteem, self-competence and school attitude were administered in addition to the AFAS and a short-form of the Inventory of Parental and Peer Attachment (IPPA). Regression analyses revealed that the AFAS Anxious and Avoidant scales added to the prediction of depression, self-esteem, self-competence, and school attitude beyond the contribution of the IPPA. It is concluded that the AFAS taps aspects of adolescent attachment relationships not assessed by the IPPA and provides a useful contribution to research and practice in the area of adolescent psycho-social adjustment.
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“Wilkinson (2010) noted that students with higher self-liking demonstrated lower avoidance and anxiety in friendship attachments and that they had a higher quality of attachment with their parents and peers.”
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“individuals with lower self-liking may be expected to have higher levels of depression (Wilkinson, 2010), which is positively associated with social media addiction (Andreassen et al., 2016; Kırcaburun, 2016b), to be uncomfortable in social settings and to experience attachment issues with their peers and family (Wilkinson, 2010).”
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- Authors
- Wilkinson, R. B.
- Affiliations
- Australian National University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Wilkinson, Ross B.
- ORCID
- Wilkinson, Ross B.
- Venue
- Journal of Adolescence
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-11-11
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 709-717
- ISSN
- 0140-1971 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9254
- OpenAlex
- W1973525983
- Cited by
- 114
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 5.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Adolescence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- peer attachment, adolescent adjustment, depression, self-esteem, self-competence, attitudes toward school, attachment relationships, high school students
- MeSH terms
- Achievement, Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Attitude, Female, Humans, Male, Object Attachment, Peer Group, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Self Concept, Social Adjustment, Social Identification, Reproducibility of Results, Friends
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