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| Maarten SelfhoutSummaryAffiliation: Utrecht University Country: The Netherlands Publications
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The development of delinquency and perceived friendship quality in adolescent best friendship dyadsMaarten H W Selfhout
Research Centre Adolescent Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:471-85. 2008..No interaction effects between friendship quality and friends' delinquency on adolescent delinquency were found. Thus, findings were more in support of the differential association theory than of the social control theory...
The role of music preferences in early adolescents' friendship formation and stabilityMaarten H W Selfhout
Research Centre Adolescent Development, Department of General Social Sciences, Utrecht University, P O Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Adolesc 32:95-107. 2009..Thus, results suggest that similarity in music preferences is related to friendship formation, and not to friendship discontinuation...
Developmental trajectories of perceived friendship intimacy, constructive problem solving, and depression from early to late adolescenceM H W Selfhout
Research Centre Adolescent Development, Utrecht University, P O Box 80140, 3508, TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:251-64. 2009..Girls in disengaged friendships showed smaller increases in balanced relatedness and higher levels of depression than boys in disengaged friendships and adolescents in interdependent friendships...
Different types of Internet use, depression, and social anxiety: the role of perceived friendship qualityMaarten H W Selfhout
Research Centre Adolescent Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Adolesc 32:819-33. 2009..These results support social compensation effects of IM-ing on depression and poor-get-poorer effects of surfing on depression and social anxiety, respectively...
In the eye of the beholder: perceived, actual, and peer-rated similarity in personality, communication, and friendship intensity during the acquaintanceship processMaarten Selfhout
Research Centre Adolescent Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:1152-65. 2009..Finally, peers' expectations seem to affect individuals' communicative behaviors, which in turn affect friendship formation...
