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Rejection and acceptance across contexts: parents and peers as risks and buffers for early adolescent
Miranda Sentse1, Siegwart Lindenberg, Annelies Omvlee
1Department of Sociology/ICS, University of Groningen, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG Groningen, the Netherlands. m.sentse@rug.nl
Abstract:
In a large sample of early adolescents (T2: n = 1023; M age = 13.51; 55.5% girls) it was investigated whether the effects of parental and peer acceptance and rejection on psychopathology (externalizing and internalizing problems) remain when taking into account both contexts simultaneously. Moreover, we examined whether acceptance in one context can buffer rejection in the other. It was found that when analyzing peer and parent effects simultaneously (1) the protective effect of parental acceptance and the risk effect of peer rejection were diminished; (2) the protective effect of peer acceptance and the risk-effect of parental rejection remained strong; and (3) peer acceptance buffered parental rejection but parental acceptance did not buffer peer rejection. The results imply that the parent and peer contexts are interdependent. Implications and directions for future research are given.
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