2024
When best friendships end: young adolescents' responses to hypothetical best friendship dissolution and associations with real-life friendship outcomes
Bowker J, Weingarten J, Etkin R, Dirks M. When best friendships end: young adolescents' responses to hypothetical best friendship dissolution and associations with real-life friendship outcomes. Frontiers In Developmental Psychology 2024, 2: 1369085. DOI: 10.3389/fdpys.2024.1369085.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Bidirectional Associations Between Friend Overprotection and Psychosocial Adjustment During Adolescence
Etkin R, Bowker J. Bidirectional Associations Between Friend Overprotection and Psychosocial Adjustment During Adolescence. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence 2023, 52: 780-793. PMID: 36786907, DOI: 10.1007/s10964-023-01741-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPeer difficultiesFriendship qualityInternalizing problemsBidirectional associationsPositive friendship qualityPeer nomination measuresPeer relations researchStructural equation modelPsychosocial adjustmentInternalizing symptomsNegative adjustmentOverprotective behaviorsEarly adolescenceNomination measuresYoung adolescentsOverprotectionAdolescenceFuture inquiryCurrent studyEquation modelFriendsSuch behaviorRelations researchDifficultiesAdjustment
2019
Receiving Prosocial Behavior: Examining the Reciprocal Associations between Positive Peer Treatment and Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes
Stotsky M, Bowker J, Etkin R. Receiving Prosocial Behavior: Examining the Reciprocal Associations between Positive Peer Treatment and Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes. Journal Of Research On Adolescence 2019, 30: 458-470. PMID: 31670899, DOI: 10.1111/jora.12537.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPeer treatmentProsocial behaviorReciprocal associationsBehavioral outcomesSelf-report measuresAutoregressive path modelsPeer nominationsEarly adolescenceYoung adolescentsPath modelLongitudinal studyAdolescencePsychosocialAdolescentsFuture workBehaviorParticipantsNominationsAssociationOutcomesMeasuresFindings
2016
Evaluating the Psychological Concomitants of Other-Sex Crush Experiences During Early Adolescence
Bowker J, Etkin R. Evaluating the Psychological Concomitants of Other-Sex Crush Experiences During Early Adolescence. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence 2016, 45: 846-857. PMID: 26984754, PMCID: PMC4826819, DOI: 10.1007/s10964-016-0470-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTime 1Psychological concomitantsEarly adolescenceTwo-wave longitudinal studyDepressive symptomsPsychological adjustment outcomesSelf-report measuresPeer nomination measuresLittle empirical attentionAdjustment outcomesFriendship involvementTime 2Nomination measuresYoung adolescentsEmpirical attentionFirst empirical evidenceMutual friendshipsLongitudinal studyProtective factorsAdolescenceSuch experiencesInteraction effectsLonelinessEmpirical evidenceExperience
2013
Does Humor Explain Why Relationally Aggressive Adolescents are Popular?
Bowker J, Etkin R. Does Humor Explain Why Relationally Aggressive Adolescents are Popular? Journal Of Youth And Adolescence 2013, 43: 1322-1332. PMID: 24136377, PMCID: PMC3991775, DOI: 10.1007/s10964-013-0031-5.Peer-Reviewed Original Research