• Associations between friends' responses during problem talk and emotional adjustment 

    Spiekerman, Allie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    The present study examined how friends' responses to each other during problem talk predicted depressive symptoms overtime. Early and mid-adolescents (N = 314 friend dyads) were observed discussing a problem with a close ...
  • Conversational self focus in youths' friendships 

    Schwartz, Rebecca A. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
    The present research considered conversational self-focus, a previously unstudied variant of normative self-disclosure in which one conversation partner re-directs conversations to focus on the self. It was hypothesized ...