Resilience

Van Harmelen A, Kievit R, Ioannidis K, Neufeld S, Jones P, Bullmore E, Dolan R, The NSPN Consortium, Fonagy P, Goodyer I. (2017) Adolescent friendships predict later resilient functioning across psychosocial domains in a healthy community cohort (PDF). Psychological Medicine, 47 (13), 2312-2322. doi:10.1017/S0033291717000836

• The authors aimed to investigate the relationship between adolescent family and friendship support on adolescent resilient PSF in healthy adolescents (aged 14-24). 
• The authors concluded that friendship support, but not family support is an important positive predictor of immediate and later resilient PSF in adolescence, suggesting that friendship support may be an important protective factor in adolescence.
• Prioritising interventions promoting the skills needed to form and maintain positive social bonds in adolescence may be essential in promoting adolescent resilient functioning. In addition, creating positive social environments in schools and wider society to allow adolescents to easily acquire and maintain social relationships is equally important.