TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoffmann, Svenja Sarah Helen
A1  - Cortes-Garcia, Laura
A1  - Warschburger, Petra
T1  - Weight/shape and muscularity concerns and emotional problems in adolescent boys and girls
BT  - A cross-lagged panel analysis
JF  - Journal of adolescence
N2  - Introduction: The goal of the present study was to identify the prospective relations between weight/shape and muscularity concerns and emotional problems in adolescents. Methods: Self-report data of 966 German male and female adolescents were analyzed in a cross lagged panel design. Results: Analyses of latent means revealed significant correlations between weight/shape concern and emotional problems as well as between muscularity concern and emotional problems in both genders. Moreover, weight/shape concern predicted emotional problems prospectively, but only in girls. Regarding muscularity concern, we could not find any prospective relation with emotional problems In boys or girls from the general population. Conclusions: It is assumed that as appearance is highly relevant for the self-concept in girls, concerns about the look might promote emotional problems. Thus, weight/shape concern should be addressed in the prevention of emotional problems in adolescent girls, whereas further research is necessary investigating the contribution of muscularity concern in this context.
KW  - Weight/shape concern
KW  - Muscularity concern
KW  - Depressive symptoms
KW  - Adolescents
KW  - Cross-lagged panel analysis
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.07.005
SN  - 0140-1971
SN  - 1095-9254
VL  - 68
SP  - 70
EP  - 77
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brenick, Alaina
A1  - Schachner, Maja Katharina
A1  - Jugert, Philipp
T1  - Help or hindrance?
BT  - Minority versus majority cross-ethnic friendships altering discrimination experiences
JF  - Journal of applied developmental psychology : an internat. multidisciplinary lifespan journal
N2  - We examined the interplay between perceived ethnic discrimination (PED) as a risk factor, and cross-ethnic friendships as a protective factor in culturally diverse classrooms, and how they relate to the socioemotional adjustment of ethnic minority boys and girls. We conducted multi-level analyses of 327 Turkish-heritage ethnic minority early-adolescents in Germany (62 classrooms; M-age = 11.59 years, SDage = 0.76). Higher rates of PED were associated with more depressive symptoms and disruptive behaviors and lower general life satisfaction-though these effects differed by gender. Unexpectedly, cross-ethnic friendships with ethnic majority peers exacerbated the negative effects of PED on socioemotional adjustment. This effect was decreased, though, when adolescents perceived the classroom climate to be supportive of intergroup contact toward majority-minority cross-ethnic friendships. Supportive classroom climate also buffered the effects of PED for youth with minority cross-ethnic friends. Results indicate the need to differentiate types of cross-ethnic relationships and account for the intergroup climate.
KW  - Cross-ethnic friendships
KW  - Depressive symptoms
KW  - Disruptive behavior
KW  - Ethnic minority children
KW  - Perceived ethnic discrimination
KW  - Socioemotional adjustment
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2018.04.006
SN  - 0193-3973
SN  - 1873-7900
VL  - 59
SP  - 26
EP  - 35
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  -