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Friendship characteristics, psychosocial development, and adolescent identity formation
Author(s) -
JONES RANDALL M.,
VATERLAUS JOHN M.,
JACKSON MARK A.,
MORRILL TORREY B.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/pere.12017
Subject(s) - friendship , psychosocial , psychology , erikson's stages of psychosocial development , identity (music) , autonomy , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , political science , physics , acoustics , law
Young adults ( n = 702; 18–23 years old) completed measures of psychosocial development, identity status, and friendship. Friendship conflict and support were related with psychosocial development, and with the identity statuses. As per Erikson's prescription, early psychosocial stages were relevant to the identity statuses. After statistically controlling for the predictive variability contributed by trust, autonomy, initiative, and industry with the identity status measures, conflict and support within friendships contributed predictive variability to identity achievement (3.2%), moratorium (2.4%), and diffusion (2.5%), but neither conflict nor support within friendships was related to foreclosure scores. Conflict within friendships was positively related with moratorium and diffusion, and support within friendships was negatively related with diffusion.