Friendship Dissolutions and Relational Aggression in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Friendship Jealousy

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dc.contributor.advisorMayeux, Lara
dc.contributor.authorO'Mealey, Molly
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCarvallo, Mauricio
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBarnes, Jennifer
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDebacker, Teresa
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTerry, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-12T14:28:18Z
dc.date.available2021-05-12T14:28:18Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.manuscript2021-04
dc.description.abstractFriendships are significant to social development and offer support in times of transition, such as adolescence and emerging adulthood. However, friendships are not always stable, and dissolutions occur in two forms, complete dissolutions and downgrade dissolutions. Complete dissolutions involve entirely separating ties with a friend and downgrade dissolutions are characterized by remaining friends, but not as close. This study investigated the relationship between experiencing either form of friendship instability and relational aggression at two transitional time points, and whether this relationship was mediated by friendship jealousy. Data were collected from middle school and college samples in the Midwest. Results indicated that friendship instabilities are positively associated with relational aggression. Friendship jealousy fully mediated the relationship between downgrade dissolution and relational aggression in adolescents, and partially mediated the relationship between complete dissolution and relational aggression in emerging adults.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/329524
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://shareok.org/handle/11244/53083en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectFriendshipsen_US
dc.subjectJealousyen_US
dc.subjectAdolescenceen_US
dc.subjectEmerging Adulthooden_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.titleFriendship Dissolutions and Relational Aggression in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Friendship Jealousyen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Psychologyen_US
shareok.orcid0000-0002-2480-341Xen_US

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