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  • Title: The timing of middle-childhood peer rejection and friendship: linking early behavior to early-adolescent adjustment.
    Author: Pedersen S, Vitaro F, Barker ED, Borge AI.
    Journal: Child Dev; 2007; 78(4):1037-51. PubMed ID: 17650124.
    Abstract:
    This study used a sample of 551 children surveyed yearly from ages 6 to 13 to examine the longitudinal associations among early behavior, middle-childhood peer rejection and friendedness, and early-adolescent depressive symptoms, loneliness, and delinquency. The study tested a sequential mediation hypothesis in which (a) behavior problems in the early school years are associated with middle-childhood peer rejection and (b) rejection, in turn, leads to lower friendedness and subsequently higher adolescent internalizing--but not externalizing--problems. Results supported this sequential mediation model for internalizing outcomes and revealed an additional path from early disruptiveness to loneliness via peer rejection alone. No evidence of sequential mediation was observed for delinquency.
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