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Clear Self, Better Relationships: Adolescents’ Self-Concept Clarity and Relationship Quality With Parents and Peers Across 5 Years

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Becht, Andrik I, Nelemans, Stefanie A, van Dijk, Marloes P A, Branje, Susan J T, Van Lier, Pol A C, Denissen, Jaap J A, Meeus, Wim H J·2017·Child Development
DOI 10.1111/cdev.12921
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This study examined reciprocal associations between adolescents’ self-concept clarity (SCC) and their relationship quality with parents and best friends in a five-wave longitudinal study from age 13 to 18 years. In all, 497 adolescents (57% boys) reported on their SCC and all informants (i.e., adolescents, both parents, and adolescents’ best friends) reported on support and negative interaction. Within-person cross-lagged analyses provided systematic evidence for both parent effects and child effects, with the direction of effects being strongly dependent on the relational context. For example, higher maternal support predicted higher adolescent SCC, supporting a parent effects perspective, whereas higher SCC predicted lower paternal negative interaction, supporting a child effects perspective. Peer effects on adolescent SCC were not consistently found across adolescent and best friend reports. The title for this Special Section is Origins of Children’s Self-Views, edited by Eddie Brummelman and Sander Thomaes

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  • Within-person, relationship quality with parents (but not friends) affected subsequent self-concept clarity, while self-concept clarity affected subsequent relationship quality with both parents and friends.

    “a study examining within-person associations [52] indicated that although relationship quality with parents d and not with friends d affected subsequent selfconcept clarity, self-concept clarity affected subsequent relationship quality with both parents and friends.”

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Becht, A. I., Nelemans, S. A., van Dijk, M. P. A., Branje, S. J. T., Van Lier, P. A. C., Denissen, J. J. A., & Meeus, W. H. J.
Affiliations
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Utrecht University
  • Erasmus University
  • Tilburg University (NL)
Corresponding author
Becht, Andrik I
ORCID
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2017-11-01
Volume
88
Issue
6
Pages
1823-1833
ISSN
  • 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8624
DOI
10.1111/cdev.12921
OpenAlex
W2748667890
Cited by
69
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
FWCI
3.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (GB-MAGW 480-03-005)
  • Stichting Achmea Slachtoffer en Samenleving
  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to the Consortium on Individual Development (024.001.003)
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (GB‐MAGW 480‐03‐005)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Keywords
self-concept clarity, adolescent self-concept, parent-adolescent relationships, peer relationships, best friends, maternal support, reciprocal effects, parental effects, peer effects, adolescent development
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Peer Group, Self Concept, Social Support, Friends, Adolescent Development

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