TY - JOUR
T1 - Convergence and nonconvergence in the quality of adolescent relationships and its association with adolescent adjustment and young-adult relationship quality
AU - Jager, Justin
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NICHD, as well as by NSF Grant #0818478. Acknowledgements
Funding Information:
This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by K. M. Harris and designed by J. R. Udry, P. S. Bearman, and K. M. Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, and funded by NICHD grant PO1-HD31921, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Acknowledgement is due R. R. Rindfuss and B. Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available at: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth . No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - With the aim of identifying and examining both convergence (matched relationship quality across one's set of relationships) and nonconvergence (mixed relationship quality across one's set of relationships), the present study used a pattern-centered approach to examine the different ways adolescent relationships pattern together among a large, national sample of U.S. adolescents (aged 13-19). The study also examined how adolescent adjustment and young-adult relationship quality varied across the different relationship patterns or constellations. The current study used latent class analysis and data from Add Health (n = 4,233), a national U.S. longitudinal study that spans adolescence and young adulthood, to uncover heterogeneity in adolescent relations with parents, friends, romantic partners, peers, and teachers. As predicted, patterns of both convergence and nonconvergence were found, though patterns of nonconvergence were more common than expected. Some patterns of nonconvergence appear more stable (i.e., similar pattern found during both adolescence and young adulthood) than others. Also, no "high" converging pattern was found, indicating that few adolescents have "first-rate" relations in every relational domain.
AB - With the aim of identifying and examining both convergence (matched relationship quality across one's set of relationships) and nonconvergence (mixed relationship quality across one's set of relationships), the present study used a pattern-centered approach to examine the different ways adolescent relationships pattern together among a large, national sample of U.S. adolescents (aged 13-19). The study also examined how adolescent adjustment and young-adult relationship quality varied across the different relationship patterns or constellations. The current study used latent class analysis and data from Add Health (n = 4,233), a national U.S. longitudinal study that spans adolescence and young adulthood, to uncover heterogeneity in adolescent relations with parents, friends, romantic partners, peers, and teachers. As predicted, patterns of both convergence and nonconvergence were found, though patterns of nonconvergence were more common than expected. Some patterns of nonconvergence appear more stable (i.e., similar pattern found during both adolescence and young adulthood) than others. Also, no "high" converging pattern was found, indicating that few adolescents have "first-rate" relations in every relational domain.
KW - adolescent development
KW - latent class analysis
KW - relationship quality
KW - social capital
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U2 - 10.1177/0165025411422992
DO - 10.1177/0165025411422992
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:82455168090
VL - 35
SP - 497
EP - 506
JO - International Journal of Behavioral Development
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
SN - 0165-0254
IS - 6
ER -