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  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Education

Background:

  • Adolescent peer relationships significantly impact academic outcomes.
  • Understanding the dynamics of friend influence on schoolwork is crucial for developing effective interventions.
  • Maternal affection is a key factor in adolescent development and resilience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how friend influence affects adolescent schoolwork engagement.
  • To investigate the moderating role of maternal affection in this influence.
  • To analyze the relationship between school burnout and engagement within friend dyads.

Main Methods:

  • Study involved 160 same-sex adolescent friend dyads (94 female, 66 male).
  • Participants self-reported schoolwork engagement, school burnout, and perceptions of maternal affection.
  • Statistical analyses were used to determine the influence and moderation effects.

Main Results:

  • Schoolwork engagement of a friend with higher burnout negatively predicted the engagement of a friend with lower burnout.
  • This negative influence was significant only when the lower burnout friend perceived below-average maternal affection.
  • Maternal affection moderated the transmission of burnout effects between friends.

Conclusions:

  • Maternal affection plays a critical role in buffering negative peer influences on adolescent schoolwork.
  • Interventions should consider the interplay of peer dynamics and family support systems.
  • Targeting maternal support may mitigate the detrimental effects of peer burnout on academic engagement.