Table 3.

Prospective Associations of Friends’ Engagement in Non-Problem Talk and Problem Talk and Responses to Friends’ Problem Statements with Later Emotional Closeness

	DV = Time 2 Emotional Closeness
	Actor Effect		Partner Effect
	SPE	F value	SPE	F value
Participation in Non-Problem and Problem Talk
Friend-Problem Statements	−.01	0.07	.09	6.66*
Own-Problem Statements	.07	4.34*	.01	0.15
Non-Problem Statements	−.04	0.94	−.04	1.25
Engaged Responses
Support/Agree	.05	2.24	.09	5.97*
Question	−.01	0.05	.10	8.70**
Related Experience	−.00	0.01	.03	0.69
Information/Opinion	.03	0.66	.10	8.99**
Acknowledge/Prompt	.02	0.28	.04	1.31
Advice Giving	.03	0.57	.05	2.23
Negative Responses
Changing Subject	−.07	4.20*	.04	1.11
Minimization/Non-Support	−.03	.85	−.03	0.85
Silence/No Response	−.03	.78	.01	0.06
Humor Responses
Humor	−.06	2.83	−.01	0.05

Notes. Time 1 Emotional Closeness is controlled in all analyses. SPE = Standardized Parameter Estimate.

^*p< .05.

^**p < .01.